photography These massive bird nests on telephone poles look like Dr. Seuss art Popkin

gadgets Google disconnects early Nest Thermostats from app Rob Beschizza

beds Mattress shopping with a bad back Jason Weisberger

security Nulledcast: a podcast where hackers play live audio of themselves breaking into Ring cameras and tormenting their owners Cory Doctorow

Business Griefer terrorizes baby by taking over their Nest babycam…again Cory Doctorow

security Nest's "ease of use" imperative plus poor integration with Google security has turned it into a hacker's playground Cory Doctorow

google Google admits Nest security product has a secret mic, insists it wasn't supposed to be a secret Cory Doctorow

youtube Arizona realtor surprised to find Canadian "white hat" hacker talking to him through his smart doorbell Cory Doctorow

facial recognition A Nest doorbell locks door when it confuses homeowner with his Batman shirt Carla Sinclair

Business Google: if you support Amazon's Echo, you're cut off from Google Home and Chromecast Cory Doctorow

security With security cam, guy catches housecleaners committing identity theft Xeni Jardin

retail-archaeology Retail archaeology finds the bones of Circuit City everywhere Jason Weisberger

art A whole book about That One Matt Bors Comic Rob Beschizza

movies The Social Reckoning trailer Rob Beschizza

nothing to see Meta is not sorry it built the spyware, just sorry you noticed Jason Weisberger

AI Ted Chiang argues an LLM chatbot is as conscious as Microsoft Word Ellsworth Toohey

animals A beetle that hijacks wasps, then impersonates them by smell Ellsworth Toohey

Games New God of War game does not feature the god of war Grant St. Clair

brains The brain-in-a-bucket drug lab is here Jason Weisberger