security Virtually every modern computer is vulnerable to a pair of devastating attacks, and there's only a fix for one of them, and it sucks Cory Doctorow

politics Indiana declares June "Nuclear Family Month" Jennifer Sandlin

ddos Internet Archive beleaguered by DDoS attacks, also hacked Jason Weisberger

conspiracy theories "Deep State Weather Engineering" conspiracy theories run rampant in wake of Maui fires Jennifer Sandlin

homophobia Homophobes at Fox News have ridiculous opinions of Sec. Buttigieg Jason Weisberger

microsoft Thieves are using fake 'Windows 11' installers to infect folks looking to upgrade from 10 Jason Weisberger

happy mutants Tpmfail: a timing attack that can extract keys from secure computing chips in 4-20 minutes Cory Doctorow

china How China grabbed NSA hacking tools and used them to attack U.S. allies Xeni Jardin

Business Bunnie Huang's tour-de-force explanation of how hardware implants and supply chain hacks work Cory Doctorow

medicine Ho ho no: risk of suffering a heart attack is 40% higher on Christmas Eve Séamus Bellamy

security Connected sex-toy allows for code-injection attacks on a robot you wrap around your genitals Cory Doctorow

Business Hackers can freeze the camera that lets you know whether your "Amazon Key" equipped door is locked and who is using it Cory Doctorow

youtube Researchers show they can beat address space layout randomization with Javascript in a browser (!) Cory Doctorow

Business Crooks can guess Visa card details in six seconds by querying lots of websites at once Cory Doctorow

Science It's pretty easy to hack traffic lights Cory Doctorow

Business The surveillance business model goes to war against the FTC Cory Doctorow

war Research files on El Salvador stolen from human rights group suing CIA over El Salvador Xeni Jardin

offworld War without tears Maxwell Neely-Cohen

science fiction Shovel Ready: Excerpt from hardboiled dystopian thriller by Adam Sternbergh Adam Sternbergh

Entertainment 'The Walking Dead' mid-season finale review K.M. McFarland