botched bumble matches Gentleman arrested after bragging to potential Bumble date: "I did storm the capitol" Carla Sinclair
burglars Idiot burglar throws brick at window but hits partner in the head, has to drag him away Carla Sinclair
infosec 139 pieces of (seemingly nonfunctional) malware that exploit Spectre and Meltdown are now circulating in the wild Cory Doctorow
meltdown What Ken Thompson's seminal (terrifying!) "On Trusting Trust" tells us about the Spectre and Meltdown bugs Cory Doctorow
politics Research report explains how adtech supercharges political deceit, allowing even bumblers to be master propagandists Cory Doctorow
science fiction Fill Your Boots: my column on how technology could let us work like artisans and live like kings Cory Doctorow
timemachine This Day in Blogging History: Terrorists suck at terrorism; Piercable fleshtoy; Dean campaign spawns campaigning software Cory Doctorow
News Concordia University has a spy-squad that snooped on novelist for "bilingual interests" Cory Doctorow
Bob Graham's much-scoffed-at little notebooks are more reliable than the CIA's records Mark Frauenfelder