security Hackers find exploitable vulnerabilities in Amazon Echo, turn one into a listening device Cory Doctorow

security Redditor claims Chinese border guards installed malware on his phone Cory Doctorow

security Snowden helped design an app that turns your old phone into a surveillance device to help solve the "evil maid" problem Cory Doctorow

donald trump "A rapidly deteriorating 78-year-old felon" — actor Bradley Whitford destroys Trump in Wisconsin speech (video) Ellsworth Toohey

law Vermont man charged with drunk driving in Canada thought he was in U.S. Rob Beschizza

nazis Review: Zone of Interest is the "Banality of Evil" film adaptation we've all been waiting for Natalie Dressed

tabloids Melania's Pay-Off and King Charles "master-stroke" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Republicans Watch a MAGA rave on about technologically advanced mermaids from the kingdom of darkness Jason Weisberger

john darnielle John Darnielle's Devil House nominated for 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for "Best Novel" Jennifer Sandlin

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

Welcome to Gilead Kenneth Copeland's Christofacist "Watchman Decree" is straight out of The Handmaid's Tale Mark Frauenfelder

movies The Shaw Brothers' kung fu equivalent of Scott Pilgrim Devin Nealy

science fiction Rudy Rucker is Kickstarting his next novel, Juicy Ghosts Mark Frauenfelder

Comics Alan Moore's surprisingly positive thoughts on Frank Miller, from 1983 Thom Dunn

copyright A federal judge declared that a famous song about public property is still private property Thom Dunn

occult Touch Me Not, a surreal 18th century manual on how to raise the Devil, and then send him treasure hunting Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants Stealing data from airgapped computers by using power fluctuations as a covert channel Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Teen's devastating bug-report on a "tamper-proof" cryptocurrency wallet shows why companies can't be left in charge of bad news about their products Cory Doctorow

police New York City's Right to Know Act requires cops to record people's explicit consent to warrantless stop-and-frisks Cory Doctorow