security Tor Project is working on a web-wide random number generator Cory Doctorow

Business The TSA spent $1.4M on an app to tell it who gets a random search Cory Doctorow

Business Juniper blinks: firewall will nuke the NSA's favorite random number generator Cory Doctorow

censorship Egyptian cartoonist jailed over critical cartoons Ruben Bolling

Technology Time capsule of 5 million random iPhone videos reveals life before Instagram Mark Frauenfelder

Boing Boing Gadgets Here's how this pen upgrade saved my butt at work Boing Boing's Shop

Developer creates tool that transforms boring security keys into pretty ASCII art Ellsworth Toohey

simpsons Steamed Hams and the beautiful degradation of copying VHS tapes (video) Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

politics DEA paid "tens of thousands" to airline employees for targeting innocent passengers to steal their cash — DOJ halts practice Ellsworth Toohey

Science These lab rats find great joy learning how to drive little cars Allan Rose Hill

fun Shake-a-face toy: a vintage way to create random facial expressions Popkin

puzzles Puzzlip: free online puzzle generator Rob Beschizza

Space These mysterious fiery falling objects in sky over Dallas weren't meteors (video) Allan Rose Hill

We strongly recommend you vote for Kamala Harris today Rob Beschizza

politics Musk's "neutral" Twitter runs page-wide Trump ads Grant St. Clair

Monkey unable to type all of Hamlet before the universe ends but could type "bananas" before it dies Allan Rose Hill

Games A retrospective of shadows in 3D games Rob Beschizza

This free puzzle game fixes everything wrong with the classic Battleship Mark Frauenfelder

mechanical engineering Watch this loud contraption shake coins to create unhackable crypto wallets Ellsworth Toohey

russia Russian linux kernel maintainers removed due to sanctions Rob Beschizza