Boing Boing Gadgets Reverse-engineering a connected Furby toy, revealing its disturbing security defects Cory Doctorow
security Shazam song-identification program keeps your mic on, even when you turn it off Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Microsoft buys Skype, attacks reverse engineer with bogus takedown notices and florid language Cory Doctorow
Technology Hacker defies the odds, unlocks $3 million Bitcoin wallet locked since 2013 Mark Frauenfelder
Games Classic 90s game Worms 2 hacked to run on modern computers—and to have its hidden features Rob Beschizza
tabloids A paranoid prince, proof of UFOs, and a panicked Trump in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
Science Former U.S. Intelligence official says the U.S. possesses craft of non-human origin Ruben Bolling
perverse engineering Drones installed in taxidermied birds. They even flap, nightmarishly. Rob Beschizza