sexual abuse Taxpayers to cover $138.7 million bill for FBI's negligence in Nassar sex abuse case Mark Frauenfelder

politics Out of the spotlight, Marjorie Taylor Greene demands attention Jason Weisberger

privacy Grindr fined $6m for passing user data to commercial partners Rob Beschizza

Technology Japan says goodbye to floppy disks in official use Rob Beschizza

News DEA fuels moral panic over ADHD meds to justify its failed drug war Mark Frauenfelder

History The Soviets mastered photo manipulation long before the age of Photoshop Carolyn Townsend

maga Fox News, far-right podcasters ruined an innocent man's life by identifying him as a neo-Nazi shooter, alleges lawsuit Mark Frauenfelder

privacy UK passes "online safety" bill Rob Beschizza

gop RNC chairperson thinks global economic chaos will help the Republican party Jason Weisberger

twitter Musk fancies himself an Ayn Randian superhero, so naturally, he'll blame others for Twitter's downfall Mark Frauenfelder

VR VR loses its V; a new visor will kill you Jason Weisberger

private affluence public squalor Everything is fine in the UK, thanks to the Tories Mark Frauenfelder

ESP Is Precognition Real? Mitch Horowitz

los angeles Judge orders L.A. to build shelter for Skid Row homeless within 180 days Jess Sabine

COVID-19 Trump's failures with first Wuhan evacuees "increased the risk of infection transmission to American public," federal watchdog concludes Xeni Jardin

facebook UK ICO report on Cambridge Analytica finds no illegal activity or Russian involvement Thom Dunn

Business Plagued by security woes, Zoom promises end-to-end encryption starting in July Xeni Jardin

science fiction Max Barry on how science fiction prepares us for the apocalypse Mark Frauenfelder

politics Google spent ~$150 million on US lobbying over last decade, followed by Facebook at ~$81M, Amazon almost $80M: Federal filings Xeni Jardin