christ what an asshole Oculus Founder/alt-right troll Palmer Luckey teaming up with Peter Thiel to build surveillance tech Cory Doctorow

politics Oculus execs defend founder's support of Nazi propaganda machine Rob Beschizza

politics Facebook 'near-billionaire' Palmer Luckey secretly funding racist pro-Trump hate meme machine Xeni Jardin

politics War profiteer Marc Andreessen brags about zero introspection Ellsworth Toohey

AI at war US strike that killed 175 at Iranian girls' school reportedly planned using outdated AI Jason Weisberger

guillotine watch New study shows that literally every billionaire under 30 was born wealthy, also water wet Thom Dunn

VR VR loses its V; a new visor will kill you Jason Weisberger

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

Games The Sony PlayStation prototype sold for $360,000 to Pets.com founder Greg McLemore David Pescovitz

education Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street Cory Doctorow

AI Palmer Luckey wins secretive Pentagon contract to develop AI for drones Cory Doctorow

trump Facebook gave $120,000 to CPAC, half in cash and half in-kind contributions, Daily Beast reports Xeni Jardin

Copyfight Oculus quietly drops DRM from its VR systems Cory Doctorow

Business Oculus breaks promise, uses DRM to kill app that let you switch VR systems Cory Doctorow

Virtual reality Oculus Rift VR headset turns out pricier than expected Rob Beschizza