siberia Scientists revive a 30,000 year old Pleistocene-era plant Gareth Branwyn

AI Self-driving car jargon Cory Doctorow

privacy Facebook to banks: give us our users' financial data and we'll let them bank with Facebook Cory Doctorow

gun control Would an armed leftist movement finally provoke sensible gun laws in America? Cory Doctorow

security App that let parents spy on teens stored thousands of kids' Apple ID passwords and usernames on an unsecured server Cory Doctorow

security The secret, unaccountable location-tracking tool favored by dirty cops has been hacked (and it wasn't hard) Cory Doctorow

aviation Last summer, Southwest tried to kill a rule that would have tightened up engine fan blade inspections Cory Doctorow

junk science Oil and tobacco lobbyist blames Trans-Atlantic slave trade on wind Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Shanghai Disney requires a negative Covid test to leave Thom Dunn

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

dating apps Watch: Ad for conservative new dating app shows women where to find Mr. Wrong Carla Sinclair

artists Flea Market Follies: Hunting for Kitsch with Mitch O'Connell Lee Keeler

podcasts New podcast explores the rise and fall of Seattle's "real-life superhero," Phoenix Jones Thom Dunn

batman DC Comics announced new Bat-NFTs Thom Dunn

tabloids Occam's razor and the world's biggest breasts in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids Prince Andrew's "sex tape" and Queen Camilla's "revenge" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

COVID-19 Police use robot dogs to test unhoused people for Covid Thom Dunn

tabloids America in chaos in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

books John Darnielle's new novel is a riveting metafictional meditation on true crime stories Thom Dunn

tabloids Joe Biden's "dementia" and Ghislaine Maxwell's "shocking photos' in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan