picks Senate approves John Ratcliffe as top U.S. spy Xeni Jardin

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

Food Krispy Kreme ice cream is finally a thing Devin Nealy

tabloids Prince Andrew's Russian blackmail, Hunter Biden's $150B scandal, and the Lock Ness monster, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

politics CIA made plans to kidnap or assassinate Wikileaks' Julian Assange Rob Beschizza

fiction Read this charming sci-fi short story about love, radio waves, and David Bowie Thom Dunn

canada The Pentagon has made more UFO revelations, but Canada's had a public UFO database for decades Thom Dunn

Technology Google removes 106 malicious Chrome extensions with 32M downloads that collect browsing history and sensitive credentials Xeni Jardin

putin Putin just demonstrated how a leader can constitutionally lock himself into power forever Thom Dunn

books Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the making of a whistleblower Cory Doctorow

trump Trump's 'promise' to foreign leader sparked whistleblower complaint Xeni Jardin

china Alex Stamos schools Apple after they whine about Google revealing a whack of Ios zero-days Cory Doctorow

art CEO of London's Serpentine Gallery resigns after Guardian report Cory Doctorow

privacy How can spies from democracies compete with spies from autocracies? Cory Doctorow

censorship Alex Stamos on the security problems of the platforms' content moderation, and what to do about them Cory Doctorow

australia Uber used spyware to surveil and poach drivers from Australian rival service Gocatch Cory Doctorow

News China is rushing facial and voice recognition tech for pigs. Here's why. Xeni Jardin

picks China uses DNA tech to spy on people. Yale geneticist and a U.S. biotech helped. Xeni Jardin

spooks Phone scammer tried to con William Webster, the only person ever to serve as director of both the CIA and FBI: it did not go well Cory Doctorow