amazon Amazon: 'Unlikely' string of events led to Echo recording a family's private chat & sending to some random guy Xeni Jardin

Boing Boing Gadgets Amazon's useless "transparency reports" won't disclose whether they're handing data from always-on Alexa mics to governments Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets (Virtually) No one should ever own an Echo or any other "voice assistant" product Cory Doctorow

picks Report: Google to introduce Amazon Echo competitor device called 'Google Home' Xeni Jardin

art Klankenbos sound forest is a sculpture art experience in Belgium Popkin

art This mouth-shaped bulding burps when you enter it Popkin

viral videos Invisibility cloak caught on Ring camera Ellsworth Toohey

music An AI-generated Beatles album I will actually listen to: "Rubber Soul, but it's Motown" Ellsworth Toohey

oops Temple says man's iPhone accidentally dropped into donation box is now God's property Allan Rose Hill

weird history Iowa's weirdest uprising: The great Cow War of 1931 Ellsworth Toohey

experimental music How to make extra-long, strange, and trippy tape loops inside a standard cassette Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

video games Elden Ring is getting a multiplayer spinoff Grant St. Clair

music Machine Girl meets Game Boy: an 8-bit photo gallery Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

Comics Ben Katchor's comics were too weird for NPR's listeners Bob Knetzger

Science Blindfolded bats can navigate solely with echolocation Gail Sherman

Musical instruments The original Beatles recording console is on sale for $3 million Thom Dunn

You can learn to echolocate like a bat by rewiring your visual cortex Allan Rose Hill

Carl Barks The latest Carl Barks Donald Duck volume: The Mystery of the Swamp Ruben Bolling

science fiction Lifeskins concept blows minds: Turn your home into a Minecraft world or Mad Men office (videos) Ellsworth Toohey

ebay Antique seller banned on eBay for "illicit" 1880s cast iron item Ellsworth Toohey