music Music inspired by the hum of alternating current Rob Beschizza

lawsuits Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream is apparently now just Ben's Ice Cream Séamus Bellamy

military "What the hell is that?" — U.S. missile bounces off UFO Séamus Bellamy

Two men busted using cannon to shoot drugs over fence into prison Allan Rose Hill

london London welcomes expeditious Blood Drones Rob Beschizza

patriot act US re-authorizes Presidential National Emergency Powers over terrorist attacks Thom Dunn

trump Video showcases Trump's dull, low-energy persona Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Prince Charles and Joe Biden unfit to lead in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

panopticon Arizona police department used federal Covid funds to buy high tech surveillance equipment Mark Frauenfelder

architecture Drone film of Hong Kong's residential towers Rob Beschizza

insects The Pentagon is training an army of bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts. Thom Dunn

Business US Interior bans Chinese drones and UAVs with made-in-China parts over espionage concerns — with few exceptions Xeni Jardin

science fiction Welcome to 2020 and your annual State of the World discussion with Bruce Sterling, Jon Lebkowsky and The WELL Cory Doctorow

books The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy Matthew Potolsky

google Citing transphobic policies, 172+ googlers call for removal of Heritage Foundation from Google's "Advanced Technology External Advisory Council" Cory Doctorow

AI Palmer Luckey wins secretive Pentagon contract to develop AI for drones Cory Doctorow

happy mutants EFF's first VR app trains you to spot surveillance devices in your community Cory Doctorow

politics A Fresh Voice for San Francisco Shahid Buttar

privacy Seattle spends five years failing to come up with a privacy policy for its $3.6m surveillance network, then spends $150k ripping it out Cory Doctorow

security Engineers tackling "porch pirate" package pilfering problem Andrea James