Technology With faked degrees, U.S. tech official ran law enforcement data systems for years. Then he resigned, got a new gov job. Xeni Jardin

cruise ships MSC Cruises promised to install Man Overboard systems in 2017. Six years later, a crewmember was lost at sea. Jennifer Sandlin

hackers DNA database 23andMe admits 6.9m users hacked Rob Beschizza

Science After $500m Zuckerberg donation, Harvard university gutted its disinfo team studying Facebook Rob Beschizza

politics David DePape found guilty in Pelosi husband hammer attack Rob Beschizza

Internet The new rise and fall of .TK domain names Thom Dunn

News Italy appoints 85-year-old with no AI knowledge to head AI commission Mark Frauenfelder

Baby you can drive my car California kicks Cruise to the curb Jason Weisberger

music What happens when you use music reviews as prompts for AI generated music? Thom Dunn

new york city The Transit app now provides a crowd-sourced "ratistical analysis" of the rattiness of New York City transit stops Jennifer Sandlin

fishing trips gone awry Two men are airlifted from the middle of the ocean after a tiny but deadly jellyfish stings them Carla Sinclair

twitter Maybe Yaccarino won't be sitting next to Musk for that much longer Jason Weisberger

Technology Amazon Alexa says, "the 2020 election was stolen by a massive amount of election fraud" Mark Frauenfelder

lawsuits HP fails to dodge lawsuit over scanners that run out of ink Rob Beschizza

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Conspiracy kooks Illegal surveillance: Mike Lindell's plan to strap "WMDs" to drones Jason Weisberger

AI Associated Press "clarifies" its AI rules Rob Beschizza

books Crappy AI knockoff books are already topping the publishing charts Thom Dunn

UFOs US Congress kicks off public UFO hearings today (Watch live here!) David Pescovitz

News Google shows off AI "news article" writer to newspapers, leaving newspapers to wonder who did the fact-finding, investigating and reporting Rob Beschizza