facebook FCC grants Facebook-owned PointView Tech permit for experimental millimeter-wave CubeSat for satellite internet Xeni Jardin

dogs Missing dog returns home, rings doorbell Gail Sherman

books Hands off: Victorian books laden with toxic dyes Rob Beschizza

religion American fanatic arrested for smashing 2,000-year-old Roman statues in Israel Mark Frauenfelder

batman Don't Say Gay: Georgia school cancels Batman comic historian's speaking event Thom Dunn

tabloids Robert "The Hulk" Kennedy Jr and UFO death rays in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

mcdonalds Did McDonald's change their Shamrock Shake mascot because of the IRA? Thom Dunn

unions Medieval Times Dinner Theater's new union-busting tactic? Claiming "trademark infringement" Thom Dunn

Virtual reality People are already being sexually assaulted in Facebook's Metaverse Thom Dunn

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workers rights On The Tonight Show, John Oliver asks Alexa: "How bad are Amazon working conditions?" Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants Translating Homer's Odyssey into limericks Cory Doctorow

surveillance How deceptive browser extensions snaffled up 4m users' browsing history, including Nest videos, medical history and tax returns Cory Doctorow

art High art subprime: borrowing on private art collections surges into billions Cory Doctorow

History Remembering Velma Demerson: Grand soul, feminist, human rights advocate and writer Harry Kopyto

wolfram Stephen Wolfram explains his "personal infrastructure" Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants Syllabus for a course on Data Science Ethics Cory Doctorow

religion Vatican: More trained exorcists needed to fight the demonic Séamus Bellamy

video Watch military swarm drones lock on and surround a target Andrea James

trumpism Trump's cutback-crazed health secretary loves billing private jets to the US taxpayer Cory Doctorow