politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow
facebook Edward Snowden on the global war on encryption: "This is our new battleground" Cory Doctorow
google It's 2018, and Google just proposed an instant messaging tool with no encryption Cory Doctorow
security A critical flaw (possibly a deliberate backdoor) allows for decryption of Whatsapp messages — UPDATED Cory Doctorow
security Iphones secretly send your call history to Apple's cloud, even after you tell them not to Cory Doctorow
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music REM, Animal Collective, The Postal Service, Soccer Mommy, and dozens of other artists on fantastic digital compilation benefiting Los Angeles food bank and wildfire fund David Pescovitz
delightful creatures Kitty pretends to be a human while dog pretends to be a cat in awesome playtime (video) Carla Sinclair
fascist regimes Trump and Musk call for reporters at The Washington Post and WSJ to "be fired immediately!!!" Carla Sinclair
ice Mysterious six-foot ice spear falls from sky and pierces metal roof of Florida home Allan Rose Hill
Business 40 years ago Austria wineries got caught sweetening wine with antifreeze, nearly killing the industry (and their customers) Ellsworth Toohey
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photos Book of Monsters (1914): Early macro photography of creepy crawlies by Marian and David Fairchild Popkin