computer science What are Markov chains? Interactive guide with examples Mark Frauenfelder

Technology After Friday, Meta can read your Instagram DMs again Ellsworth Toohey

maker Outsource your decisions to this handy device Gail Sherman

algorithmic cruelty "We will find you: How a flawed algorithm terrorized welfare recipients Mark Frauenfelder

book reviews Review: Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson Gareth Branwyn

Technology Popular math YouTuber 3Blue1Brown victimized by malicious and stupid AI bots Ellsworth Toohey

viral videos Invisibility cloak caught on Ring camera Ellsworth Toohey

Games Quake clone in 13 kilobytes of Javascript Rob Beschizza

AI Facebook mistakes coding teacher for animal trader, bans him for life with no appeal Mark Frauenfelder

NASA NASA released its UFO report and now has a director of UFO research David Pescovitz

elon musk New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Buzzfeed say they won't pay for Twitter verification Mark Frauenfelder

twitter Elon Musk tries to restore his failing popularity by firing an engineer Jason Weisberger

AI What is machine learning anyway? This three minute animation delivers an excellent simple explanation David Pescovitz

google Hum that song stuck in your head and Google will identify it Rusty Blazenhoff

air travel What to do when random airport security screening isn't all that random Séamus Bellamy

pewdiepie PewDiePie goes on the record Rob Beschizza

neuroscience Debunking the "Bereitschaftspotential", the brain signal that seemed to kill off free will Clive Thompson

security Towards a method for fixing machine learning's persistent and catastrophic blind spots Cory Doctorow

arbitrage Man made $2500 in a day buying Monopoly for Millennials at Walmart and selling them online Rob Beschizza

infosec Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker Cory Doctorow