corruption Former Tory chancellor takes over newspaper, sells "money-can't buy" coverage to Uber, Google and others Cory Doctorow

Technology Why is a $200 Lego set harder to buy than a $400M machine? Ellsworth Toohey

politics Dubai influencers face jail for posting about Iranian missile strike Ellsworth Toohey

politics 60 Minutes cancels broadcast of investigation into El Salvador megaprison Trump sent detainees to Rob Beschizza

Education Department crippled as Trump slashes half its staff Jason Weisberger

make america russia Ominous warning: HHS tells workers to assume their email to Elon Musk will fall into the wrong hands Carla Sinclair

gadgets Latest rumors have Nintendo Switch 2 landing in March Rob Beschizza

Technology Helen Mirren: "It's so sad that Kurt Cobain never got to see GPS" Thom Dunn

politics Desperately seeking attention, Marge makes up an assassination plot Jason Weisberger

mistakes Britain's "worst necrophiliac killer" was given free access to corpses for 15 years Rob Beschizza

police Four L.A. Sheriff's deputies killing themselves hours apart just a coincidence, says department Rob Beschizza

london "Like Covid with legs" — bedbug infestation in Paris is driving people to extreme behavior Mark Frauenfelder

music Legendary lost Steely Dan song "Second Arrangement" surfaces Ruben Bolling

libraries San Francisco Library pushed into restricting public internet access because unhoused people use it Jason Weisberger

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

productivity When workplace surveillance software targets hospital chaplains Thom Dunn

Secret Slur-Vice Secret Service agents sent home after drunken assault in South Korea Mark Frauenfelder

language Poll warns "Colder Than A Witch's T!t" and other phrases in danger of dying out Thom Dunn

18 attacked in squirrel rampage Rob Beschizza

heinz Chocolate Orange Mayonnaise exists, and you can win a jar right now Thom Dunn