nsa The Shadow Brokers dump more intel from the NSA's elite Equation Group Cory Doctorow

security The Equation Group's sourcecode is totally fugly Cory Doctorow

security The NSA's program of tech sabotage created the Shadow Brokers Cory Doctorow

surveillance Was NSA Hacked? Leak from 'Shadow Brokers' suggests so, Russian intelligence suspected Xeni Jardin

Business Hackers claim to have stolen NSA cyberweapons, auctioning them to highest bidder Cory Doctorow

art installations "ATM Leaderboard" displays users' bank account balances Jennifer Sandlin

vintage animation "Kitty" is an early realistic computer animation from 1968 Popkin

music Paul McCartney tells the story of writing Eleanor Rigby David Pescovitz

Boing Boing Gadgets If public speaking chills you to the core, this training can exile that fear forever Boing Boing's Shop

evangelicals A harrowing look inside the apocalyptic Evangelical cult around Donald Trump Thom Dunn

bread Graphical simulation of baking bread Rob Beschizza

science fiction Read: Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech, in which she correctly identifies Campbell as a fascist and expresses solidarity with Hong Kong protesters Cory Doctorow

china How China grabbed NSA hacking tools and used them to attack U.S. allies Xeni Jardin

Technology Facebook's '15 months of Fresh Hell' detailed deliciously by WIRED Xeni Jardin

Science The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a brief history David Pescovitz

corruption For 40 years, American Conservatives have filed down the definition of "corruption," turning the Framers' spear into a blunt stub Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Tamil pulp fiction is basically totally amazing Cory Doctorow

Business Kaspersky's explanation for possessing secret NSA cyberweapons is a doozy Cory Doctorow

Business CEOs quit Trump: The 1% can't win elections unless the 99% turkeys vote for Christmas Cory Doctorow

Science Recreating Our Galaxy in a Supercomputer Xeni Jardin