crime When FBI complained, Apple dumped plans for encrypted iPhone backups: Report Xeni Jardin

firefox Mozilla is killing Pocket and Fakespot Séamus Bellamy

movies Alex Garland's Warfare is an anti-action movie Séamus Bellamy

ice ICE enlists Palantir to track down people it wants gone Séamus Bellamy

video games The goofy sequel to Oblivion I didn't know I needed Grant St. Clair

Entertainment How LA movie fans created a cult following around RRR screenings Lee Keeler

AI I interviewed the AI ghost of a famous dead porn star Thom Dunn

donald trump Schwarzenegger endorses Harris: "I will always be an American before I am a Republican" Mark Frauenfelder

Comic Books "Alter Ego" is a great new crime novel about IP, AI, and comic book industry con artists Thom Dunn

politics Support for banning Tik Tok evaporated in the summer heat Rob Beschizza

finance Making sense of Stan Lee's many financial messes Thom Dunn

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez AOC bashes Biden-bashing Democratic colleagues in midnight livestream rant: "It's bullsh*t" (video) Carla Sinclair

History How Ibram X. Kendi's STAMPED became a stunning graphic novel history of racism Thom Dunn

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

protests Could COVID-19 and a lack of sex be the reason why young people are protesting? Thom Dunn

ai-generated content The Poetry Camera uses AI to make poems out of photographs and it's actually pretty cool Thom Dunn

racism Drug-using Musk relies on casual racism in Lemon interview Jason Weisberger

maga "My heart is broken" — Disgraced Sen. Katie Britt begs MAGA suckers for cash after becoming global laughing stock Mark Frauenfelder

Unreliable narrator: Trucker for Trump changes tune several times Jason Weisberger

politics Noted neologist Marjorie Taylor Greene ready to deport her colleague Jason Weisberger