maker Indie creator conference Intervention coming to Rockville MD next month David Pescovitz

portland The narrative lottery at XOXO Glenn Fleishman

politics What if California, Oregon and Washington state joined Canada instead? Rob Beschizza

Technology Interpol's bizarre attempt to rebrand major online fraud scheme Ellsworth Toohey

corporations Hire the wrong people, misfile important documents, remove batteries from remotes, and other suggestions for corporate sabotage Allan Rose Hill

drugs San Francisco's famed magic mushroom church closing doors, cites city government "harassment" Allan Rose Hill

to-do lists Luigi Mangione planned to kill CEO with bomb, then realized it "could kill innocents" Carla Sinclair

law Deny, Defend, Depose: words found on shell cases by  UnitedHealthcare CEO's body Rob Beschizza

shootings UnitedHealthcare CEO shot and killed in Manhattan — looks like targeted attack, say police Carla Sinclair

censorship Egyptian cartoonist jailed over critical cartoons Ruben Bolling

surveillance AI scams at the conference of American police chiefs Thom Dunn

Charles and Ray Eames Meet Eliot Noyes, a midcentury design master Bob Knetzger

robots Watch a faceless humanoid robot flex its weird, hydraulic muscles Rob Beschizza

revenge Trump: Accused sex trafficker Matt Gaetz picked for US Attorney General Carla Sinclair

MAGA mania Trump whisperers have a "weird homoerotic fascination" of Putin, frets Boris Johnson (video) Carla Sinclair

politics Furious judge threatens Giuliani with contempt over $148M judgment stalling Ellsworth Toohey

Australia plans total ban on social media for under-16s Rob Beschizza

the gop MAGA teen goes bonkers at Florida voting center — threatens Democrats with machete Carla Sinclair