spy Amélie was actually a KGB spy Rusty Blazenhoff

spooks Latvia opens up its KGB files and names 4,000+ "informants," many of whom claim they were framed Cory Doctorow

News Vladimir Putin's old Stasi ID card discovered Xeni Jardin

counterfeit Canada creates maple syrup fraud deterrent Séamus Bellamy

politics No smoking gun found in JFK assassination docs Rob Beschizza

music Hear the the Royal Albert Hall organ at full power Jennifer Sandlin

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

science fiction Jeff VanderMeer's "Absolution" is a dark mirror to the Southern Reach Trilogy Thom Dunn

Hidden USB hub turns ordinary keyboard into Doom console Mark Frauenfelder

Food Another chef's take on the perfect steak Jason Weisberger

Russian state TV Panicked Putin pundits say "old" Trump should have been "a little bit smarter" against Biden Carla Sinclair

computers What The Terminator's on-screen vision code really means Natalie Dressed

twitter Twitter users will no longer be able to hide their blue checks Rob Beschizza

Excellent 1990s camcorder footage of young man dancing alone in his room to The Prodigy David Pescovitz

fun "This site will self-destruct" finally self-destructs after no-one signs guestbook for 24 hours Rob Beschizza

identity theft Hawaii couple who stole identities from dead babies found guilty Carla Sinclair

capitalism "Discard Studies" argues that "social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things" Jennifer Sandlin

conspiracy theories "Deep State Weather Engineering" conspiracy theories run rampant in wake of Maui fires Jennifer Sandlin

gadgets HP covers printer's USB port with warning sticker to make sure you don't go right ahead and use it Rob Beschizza