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When I first saw Will Stahle's cover art for my novel Walkaway, I was pleased beyond all reason (and not least because I am an unabashed Stahle fanboy, as he… Read the rest of the article: My adult novels are being reissued with covers to match Walkaway!
The Property and Evidence Tracking System (PETS) is the NYPD's huge database where it stores ownership information on the millions in New Yorkers' property it takes charge of every year… Read the rest of the article: NYPD has no backup for its seized property database, recording millions in annual seizures
ICE have become house-flippers, using the notorious and discredited "civil asset forfeiture" process to steal houses from people they say were involved in crime, then selling the houses to fund… Read the rest of the article: Leaked ICE forfeiture manual instructs agents to seize houses if they contain a phone implicated in crime
Richard Branson got a call from the UK Secretary of State for Defence asking for his help in a covert ransom payment of $5m to rescue a ranking diplomat from… Read the rest of the article: A talented impersonator is scamming Richard Branson and pals for millions
This month, University of Washington researchers will present Exploring ADINT: Using Ad Targeting for Surveillance on a Budget — or — How Alice Can Buy Ads to Track Bob at… Read the rest of the article: Mobile ad technique allows stalkers to follow you around a city for less than $1000
The Syndaver is a super-realistic robotic human corpse simulator with replaceable viscera that med students can dissect again and again, freeing them to use the donated bodies of people who… Read the rest of the article: Syndaver: A $95K animatronic cadaver that's replacing med-school corpses
In September, we learned that the pharma giant Allergan had sold key patents to the St Regis Mohawk band in upstate New York, in a bid to avoid a streamlined… Read the rest of the article: Troubles loom for patent trolls who rent sovereign immunity from Native American tribes
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said that he didn't expect the risk of fraud to go up this tax-filing season despite the world-beating Equifax breach of 145,000,000 Americans' sensitive personal and… Read the rest of the article: IRS to America: you were probably already doxed before the Equifaxpocalype, so don't worry about it
Limor "ladyada" Fried (previously) is one of the great hardware hackers of her generation and is the co-founder of the pioneering open source hardware company Adafruit; she's also not allowed… Read the rest of the article: Engineer/hero/entrepreneur Limor "ladyada" Fried was kicked off Facebook and no one will tell her why
Two of the four Chicago Department of Aviation Security officers who beat United Airlines passenger Dr David Dao until he was unconscious, concussing him, breaking his nose and then dragging… Read the rest of the article: Two of the Chicago airport cops who beat up Dr David Dao got fired for lying about it (but not for the beating)
In 2013, the Scottish city of Inverness had the unfortunate fate of being picked as the trial site for a pilot of "universal credit," one of the UK Conservative government's… Read the rest of the article: The Tories replaced benefits with "universal credit" and left a town to starve
Stephen Fry's hour-long Shannon Luminary Lecture at Bell Labs tries to bridge the despair of a world where technology enables bullying, greed and surveillance; the optimism of the early hopes… Read the rest of the article: Stephen Fry's lecture on a hopeful, cautious, excited vision of a better technological world
How did a bug like krack fester in WPA2, the 13-year-old wifi standard whose flaws have rendered hundreds of millions of devices insecure, some of them permanently so?
Hellen Die admits that her recipe for Alien facehugger pudding-cups "isn't easy": you have to make egg-molds that you cover with pastry and decorate to resemble HR Giger-esque Alien eggs,… Read the rest of the article: Bake: fizzing Alien facehugger pudding-cups
Daphne Caruana Galizia, one of the lead journalists on the Panama Papers story, has been assassinated by a car-bomb in the town of Bidnija in northern Malta.
Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond called the Labour Party an "existential challenge to our economic model"; to which Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said, that is "absolutely right" and… Read the rest of the article: Jeremy Corbyn: damned right we're a threat to the economic order
I have been reading Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos novels since I was a pre-teen and singing their praises on Boing Boing since 2006, and with the occasion of the publication of Vallista, the fifteenth and nearly final volume in the series, I want to spend some time explaining to you why goddamnit you should really consider reading 15 books, get caught up, and finish this sucker with me, because if there was any justice in this world, the Vlad books would have a following to shame The Dark Tower at its peak.
Tired: cosplaying the carpet at Dragoncon (even if you do get bonus points for attracting spurious copyright threats from the venue!); Wired: cosplaying the venue itself!. (via Neatorama)
Spanish Etsy seller EasyPrintAndCut makes tiny, printable papercraft furniture, housewares and decor for haunted dollhouses: grimoires, vampire hunting kits, spooky wallpaper and wainscotting, tiny taxidermy, adorably tiny engravings from tiny… Read the rest of the article: Papercraft haunted dollhouse furniture, housewares and decor