security theater A comic book history of the Pinkerton Agency Thom Dunn

guns Gun stocks fall after news of coronavirus vaccine Thom Dunn

late stage capitalism Doomsday Preppers are now selling timeshares, too Thom Dunn

crime Google Maps is still overrun with scammers pretending to be local businesses, and Google's profiting from them Cory Doctorow

security DOJ accuses Verizon and AT&T employees of participating in SIM-swap identity theft crimes Cory Doctorow

security A leaky database of SMS messages is a reminder that SMS is really, really insecure Cory Doctorow

security Wannacry ransomware cost the British National Health Service £92m ($121m) Cory Doctorow

crime Fraudsters offers thousands to low-waged telco employees for help with SIM Swap scams Cory Doctorow

Business Your phone company's shitty security is all that's standing between you and total digital destruction Cory Doctorow

web theory Kindle Unlimited is being flooded with 3,000-page garbage books that suck money out of the system Cory Doctorow

Business Why the rise of ransomware attacks should worry you Cory Doctorow

politics Using distributed code-signatures to make it much harder to order secret backdoors Cory Doctorow

mistakes New book from UK politician has at least 20 plagiarized passages Rob Beschizza

Business Quiet quitters of the world, unite and take over! Elías Villoro

finance Self-proclaimed "Anti-woke" bank bombs Thom Dunn

RoboCop The terrible hardships of a mechanical cop manufacturer Jason Weisberger

UFOs How might the stock market react to the forthcoming Pentagon report on UFOs? David Pescovitz

democracy Nobody's off the hook Marina Gorbis

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

corruption Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz calls neoliberalism "a failed ideology" and sketches out a "progressive capitalism" to replace it Cory Doctorow