privacy Putting a price on our data won't make the platforms stop abusing our privacy Cory Doctorow

Business "Owning your data" will not save you from data capitalism Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags Cory Doctorow

Business Fedex bought a company that stored 119,000 pieces of scanned customer IDs in a public Amazon cloud server, shut the company down, left the scans online for anyone to download Cory Doctorow

Business Chinese Apple employees and contractors sold users' private data for as little as $1.50 Cory Doctorow

crime India's controversial national ID scheme leaks fraud-friendly data for 130,000,000 people Cory Doctorow

wikileaks Wikileaks' dump of "Erdogan emails" turn out to be public mailing list archives Cory Doctorow

corruption Security researcher discovers glaring problem with patient data system, FBI stages armed dawn raid Cory Doctorow

Chondrostereum purpureum A plant fungus has infected a human for the first time Mark Frauenfelder

History The dark side of plastic: understanding the impact on our bodies, ecosystems, and the world Elías Villoro

robots A group of scientists made a working liquid metal robot Thom Dunn

optical illusions Mindbending optical illusion: Which of these buses is going faster? David Pescovitz

By God's Visitation How did the genocide of indigenous Americans impact the health of planet Earth? Elías Villoro

fashion Humans first got dressed 300,000 years ago, according to new discovery David Pescovitz

Scientific study shows that one moderate dose of psilocybin helps with depression for two weeks or more David Pescovitz

dogs Researchers use biomimicry to enhance particle detection 16-fold by sniffing like dogs Andrew Yi

bad cops Cop enjoys flipping over pregnant woman's car for pulling over too slowly Mark Frauenfelder