threats Spectrum threatens to ruin ex-customer's credit record unless they re-subscribe Mark Frauenfelder

Business Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry Cory Doctorow

AI DARPA's Spectrum Collaboration Challenge: finally some progress towards a "Cognitive Radio" future Cory Doctorow

art José Bernabé's organic geometry Andrea James

computers ZX Spectrum Next is an advanced version of the original 8-bit monster machine Rob Beschizza

books Kickstarting a steampunk anthology focused on "characters that are disabled or aneurotypical" Cory Doctorow

Science Scientists make temporarily transparent mice Jennifer Sandlin

DIY Skills trees for makers Rob Beschizza

Bad Idea JD Vance is widely disliked, and Trump's campaign is in disarray Jason Weisberger

politics Tim Walz can't wait to debate J.D. Vance "if he's willing to get off the couch and show up" Rob Beschizza

health Face blindness: more widespread than we thought Mark Frauenfelder

julian assange Julian Assange released from prison Natalie Dressed

gadgets A single-board ZX Spectrum with the keyboard silk-screened in color right onto the circuit board Rob Beschizza

politics Jon Stewart on the commercialization of Pride Month Jason Weisberger

art AI-generated spectrogram looks like a corgi and sounds like one too Rob Beschizza

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing