privacy Hacking into your robot vacuum to eavesdrop on your home Clive Thompson

infosec How to spy on someone using a lightbulb as a remote microphone Thom Dunn

sounds Solar balloons detect strange noises in Earth's stratosphere Rusty Blazenhoff

movies Ari Aster and the Safdie brothers gush over Martin Scorsese Devin Nealy

confessions Post an anonymous voicemail on this website for the world to hear Popkin

happy mutants Posters that mash up Talking Heads songs with pulp covers and vintage ads Cory Doctorow

WWII Hear the stories of the last Navajo Code Talkers Séamus Bellamy

bucket brigade Hong Kong protestors using mesh-networking messaging app to evade authorities Clive Thompson

apple Apple cleans up Siri's privacy problems, screwing over workers in the process Séamus Bellamy

privacy Microsoft contractors are listening to your Skype conversations Séamus Bellamy

apple Apple disables Walkie Talkie app for Apple Watch over eavesdropping vulnerability Xeni Jardin

privacy Like Amazon, Google sends voice assistant recordings to contractors for transcription, including recordings made inadvertently Cory Doctorow

health Twitter users answer the question: "When did you become radicalized by the U.S. health care non-system?" Cory Doctorow

News Apple was slow to act on FaceTime bug report, which came from mother of 14 year old who found it Xeni Jardin

politics Michael Cohen's mobile phone data shows he was in Prague around time of Trump Russia meeting Xeni Jardin

Business Governments all over the world buy spy products that let them track and eavesdrop on global cellphones, especially US phones Cory Doctorow

Games A brief oral history of classic point-and-click adventure The Dagger of Amon Ra Rob Beschizza

happy mutants CIPPIC: Standing Guard for Canadians' Digital Rights David Fewer, CIPPIC

security KRACK! Wifi's go-to security, WPA2, is fatally flawed, and will probably never be patched in many places Cory Doctorow

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