security "Smart home" companies refuse to say whether law enforcement is using your gadgets to spy on you Cory Doctorow

wikipedia Wikimedia's transparency report is a joy Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Amazon's useless "transparency reports" won't disclose whether they're handing data from always-on Alexa mics to governments Cory Doctorow

algorithms Coded Bias and the Algorithm Justice League Elías Villoro

COVID-19 Twitter suspends its Covid-19 misleading information policy Mark Frauenfelder

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

ESP Is Precognition Real? Mitch Horowitz

COVID-19 CDC stops reporting COVID-19 cases on cruise ships Jennifer Sandlin

Texas Department of Public Safety trooper was on-scene at Uvalde massacre after 2 minutes and 28 seconds, not 9 minutes as previously disclosed Rob Beschizza

UFOs Why is the government taking UFOs seriously now? Watch this PBS explainer video to find out Mark Frauenfelder

UFOs Next week, a US House subcommittee is holding a public hearing on UFOs David Pescovitz

politics LA city controller candidate Kenneth Mejia says the scrutiny over his tweets accusing Biden of rape "shows that we are winning" Mark Frauenfelder

CIA CIA releases new documents about Russian telepathy experiments in the 60s Thom Dunn

CIA CIA blows off senators who ask it to stop illegally spying on Americans without a warrant Mark Frauenfelder

police Minneapolis police ordered to leave on bodycams during incidents Rob Beschizza

child abuse PornHub gets busted for profiting off child trafficking, coincidentally announces new policies Thom Dunn

security COVID-19 data breach in South Dakota now under FBI investigation Xeni Jardin

Business Texas AG probing Facebook over biometric data collection that may violate state law Xeni Jardin

politics Trump admin orders hospitals to bypass CDC and send COVID-19 info to Washington database closed to public Xeni Jardin

facebook Facebook makes 'Boogaloo' groups advocating US civil war harder to find, after arrest of participants plotting violence Xeni Jardin