finance $100 bills outnumber $1s, and they're stuffed in our mattresses Cory Doctorow

Technology Third-party VPNs are still untrustworthy Jason Weisberger

what makes America great Putin-puppet Musk calls Sen. Mark Kelly "traitor" for standing with allies — gets schooled in return Carla Sinclair

uber Watch how this YouTuber avoids taxi scams at Delhi International Airport Mark Frauenfelder

Alternative Facts Untrustworthy co-conspirator denies wrongdoing Jason Weisberger

better this way Boston Dynamics pledges not to weaponize its "General Purpose Robots" Andrew Yi

fraudsters Pharma bro Shkreli and Fyre Festival fraudster McFarland both receive early release from prison Mark Frauenfelder

media Amanda Knox, acquitted in murder of Meredith Kircher, assails movie that fictionalizes a hand in her killing Rob Beschizza

COVID-19 U.S. passports are worthless — "Welcome to the Plague States of America" Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids An Epstein tell-all, a vengeful Queen wannabe, and Harry & Meghan's final insult, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

weapons of math destruction Airbnb has software that searches social media to identify creeps and psychopaths Mark Frauenfelder

crime Video shows cop lied Rob Beschizza

facebook Apparently Facebook did approve ads saying Republicans support the Green New Deal Jason Weisberger

security Thangrycat: a deadly Cisco vulnerability named after an emoji ??? Cory Doctorow

china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

social anxiety Study shows eye contact is not needed for enjoyable conversation Mark Frauenfelder

law Verizon/Aol fined $5m for knowingly helping advertisers track children Rob Beschizza

racism Why some people hate Jews and Asian-Americans David Pescovitz

labor The Big Lie: how polygraph companies convinced the US government to use pseudoscience on job applicants Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism The £7 billion Carillion collapse has the UK government talking about breaking up the Big Four accounting firms Cory Doctorow