linux Researchers checked bugs into the Linux kernel to see if they'd get noticed. The bugs got through. Their uni got banned. Rob Beschizza

Science A generalized method for re-identifying people in "anonymized" data-sets Cory Doctorow

politics Costco claps back at "reprehensible radical right" organization's anti-DEI demand Jennifer Sandlin

Science 2020 paper pushing bogus Covid treatment finally retracted Gail Sherman

mistakes Ethics expert Francesca Gino, already under fire over fabricated data, accused of plagiarism Rob Beschizza

free speech Supreme Court rules Florida can't enforce drag ban for now Rob Beschizza

capitalism How private equity firms use public pension funds to screw other workers Thom Dunn

Science Harvard ethics prof accused of faking data Rob Beschizza

twitter Twitter storms onto America's most hated companies list at #4, but has a long way to go to topple The Trump Organization Rob Beschizza

paris Monumental Yayoi Kusama installations at Louis Vuitton stores in Paris Jennifer Sandlin

africa New evidence of African writing system that pre-dates European colonialists Thom Dunn

animal rights HelloFresh still using illegal primate labor, says PETA: "Monkeys are chained around the neck and forced to toil" Elías Villoro

Science The Tasmanian Tiger's been extinct since 1936. Should we bring it back with science? Elías Villoro

politics Meet the Texan billionaires buying up the state's political machinery Elías Villoro

media CNN fires Chris Cuomo, who is also now accused of sexual misconduct Rob Beschizza

How about global thermonuclear war? Perhaps Reddit is a bad place to teach your AI morality and ethics Jason Weisberger

corpses A dead man's body was dissected in an "Oddities and Curiosities" show to a paying audience without consent Carla Sinclair

Science First monkey-human hybrid embryos sparking controversy among scientists David Pescovitz

AI OpenAI discovers its visual AI can be fooled by written notes Clive Thompson