Ryan Zinke (previously) is one of Trump's most notoriously scandal-haunted cabinet members; as Secretary of the Interior he presided over the catastrophic failure of the federal government to intervene in… Read the rest of the article: Trump's Interior Secretary is now blacking out nearly all details of his calendar

Bernie Sanders has introduced the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (STOP BEZOS) Act, which will force any corporation with more than 500 employees to reimburse the government for… Read the rest of the article: Bernie Sanders' new bill will force companies to reimburse governments for low-paid employees' welfare costs

Eleven of Europe's largest scientific research funders, responsible for €7.6B in annual grants, have announced "Plan S," whereby scientists will only be able to get research grants if they promise… Read the rest of the article: Consortium of the largest science funders in Europe announce that they'll only fund open access research

Cory Councill writes, "Musician, inventor, and visionary Raymond Scott (1908-1994) (previously) will be feted on September 8 at the Colony Theatre in Burbank, CA. As influential today as he ever… Read the rest of the article: To do in LA this weekend: Scottworks, celebrating visionary composer, inventor and musician Raymond Scott

John Frost writes, "Four members of the Williamston, Michigan Board of Education are being recalled because they enacted policies that enable schools to treat children with respect regardless of their… Read the rest of the article: Michigan school board members recalled for enacting LGBTQ-friendly policies

We have just a week until the European Parliament debates and votes on the new Copyright Directive, including the dreaded censorship machines (every website has to censor anything that appears… Read the rest of the article: Everyone — not just Europeans — needs to save the internet from the EU's terrible copyright proposal

In Deposition of respiratory virus pathogens on frequently touched surfaces at airports, published in BMC Infectious Diseases, a University of Nottingham team reveal that the airport security trays they swabbed… Read the rest of the article: Airport "security" trays are filthy reservoirs of infectious agents

Ady Barkan's Be a Hero campaign is taking pledges of cash to go to the Democratic challenger for Maine Senator Susan Collins if she breaks her word and votes to… Read the rest of the article: If Susan Collins confirms Kavanaugh, $300K will automatically be sent to her Democratic challenger

Shelan Faith has an internet-enabled home "security" system from Vivint Home Security; it includes cameras that spy on the interior and exterior of her home, as well as sensors that… Read the rest of the article: Internet of Things security camera sends customers' video feed to someone else

James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Facebook account, but it didn't go up — Facebook's copyright filtering system pulled it down and accused him of copyright… Read the rest of the article: The future is here today: you can't play Bach on Facebook because Sony says they own his compositions

In just one week, Members of the European Parliament will debate and vote on the new EU Copyright Directive, which contains two of the worst, most dangerous internet proposals in… Read the rest of the article: Wikipedia's warning: EU copyright changes threaten the internet itself

Every year, security researchers, hardware hackers and other deep geeks from around the world converge on an English nature reserve for Electromagnetic Field, a hacker campout where participants show off… Read the rest of the article: This year's Electromagnetic Field hacker campout demonstrated the awesome power of DIY cellphones and DIY stingrays

Columbia University's Brown Institute is hosting me for a trio of lectures later this month in New York City: I kick off with a conversation with the Brown's Dennis Tenen… Read the rest of the article: I'm heading to New York for a lecture series at Columbia!

A team from the University of Florida won a 2018 Usenix Security Distinguished Paper Award for Fear the Reaper: Characterization and Fast Detection of Card Skimmers, which presents their work… Read the rest of the article: A reliable credit-card skimmer detector: a card that detects multiple read heads

Journalist Sarah Jeong (previously) was just appointed to the New York Times's editorial board, prompting garbage people to dig through her twitter for old posts that could be made to… Read the rest of the article: A new, free edition Sarah Jeong's "The Internet of Garbage"

I've been fighting with voting machine vendors since Bush v Gore, when companies like Diebold brazenly sought to subvert the Supreme Court's order to standardize a secure design for US… Read the rest of the article: US voting machine vendors and officials insist that it's OK to build wireless networking into election systems

Jon Cog writes, "On the 30th anniversary of IRC, David Cassel pulls together his favorite memories from the 1990s, 'when there were all kinds of fun things to do.' It… Read the rest of the article: Remembering the wild days of IRC on its 30th birthday

Robert Kyncl, Youtube's Chief Business Officer, writes about Article 13, the EU proposal to force all online services to evaluate all user-generated content with a copyright enforcement algorithm and censor… Read the rest of the article: How the EU will force all artists to use Youtube, forever

America, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and Australia are in a surveillance alliance called The Five Eyes, through which they share much of their illegally harvested surveillance data.

Kenny Shopsin was the proprietor of Shopsin's, an incredible, storied, secretive, boisterous, tiny restaurant and general store in Greenwich Village, whose cookbook/memoir is a masterclass in sloppy diner chef-craft in… Read the rest of the article: RIP, Kenny Shopsin, New York City's greatest restaurateur