food safety Fired Disney World manager accused of dangerous menu hacking revenge plot Ellsworth Toohey

cambodia The crypto scam behind those weird text messages Jennifer Sandlin

ebooks The business of generating and selling low-quality ebooks Rob Beschizza

cops Cops jailed after filming themselves throwing slushies at people Rob Beschizza

felonies A teen and her mom face felony charges for abortion in Nebraska — and Facebook DMs helped with the arrest Carla Sinclair

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politics CIA made plans to kidnap or assassinate Wikileaks' Julian Assange Rob Beschizza

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

COVID-19 Interpol warns of fake COVID vaccine made by organized criminals Mark Frauenfelder

Technology U.S. charges Iranians with hacking aerospace and satellite technology firms for Islamic republic's Revolutionary Guard Xeni Jardin

Technology Florida teen pleads not guilty to Twitter hack Xeni Jardin

law IRS says it bought in to location database for millions of US cellphones to track tax crime suspects Xeni Jardin

Comics "The Black Ghost" is a fun Latina twist on urban noir superheroes Thom Dunn

crime Ex-Microsoft engineer convicted of 18 felonies after stealing $10M in digital currencies from Microsoft to make extravagant purchases Xeni Jardin

security After ransomware took Baltimore hostage, Maryland introduces legislation that bans disclosing the bugs ransomware exploits Cory Doctorow

corruption Brazil's authoritarians charge Glenn Greenwald with cybercrime for publishing leaks that revealed corruption at the highest levels Cory Doctorow

politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow

authoritarianism Political journalist Omoyele Sowore arrested and tortured under Nigeria's overbroad "cyberstalking" law Cindy Cohn

art CEO of London's Serpentine Gallery resigns after Guardian report Cory Doctorow

surveillance Hong Kong's #612strike protest movement: a million strong, leaderless, wireless and smart as hell Cory Doctorow