Business Yandex to buy Tinkoff for $5.5 billion from Russian bank TCS Group Xeni Jardin

google Dream job nightmare: Google leaves new hire jobless and without an apartment Mark Frauenfelder

hack the planet Hackers create a traffic nightmare by sending hundreds of Moscow taxi cabs to the same address Jason Weisberger

politics Donald Trump (definitely not a drug user) falsely accuses Joe Biden of performance enhancing drug abuse Xeni Jardin

politics Russian military disinformation online is making Americans go nuts, QAnon edition Xeni Jardin

forensics A masterclass in reverse image-search Cory Doctorow

Business Microsoft confirms 'Bing is currently inaccessible in China' Xeni Jardin

AI The Russian equivalent to Alexa is a "good girl" but not too friendly, and is totally OK with wife-beating Cory Doctorow

privacy Web analytics companies offer "replay sessions" that let corporations watch every click and keystroke for individual users Cory Doctorow

security The hacker who took over San Francisco's Muni got hacked Cory Doctorow

Business Ransomware creep accidentally hijacks San Francisco Muni, won't give it back Cory Doctorow

News Oppps.ru: patient zero in Russia's fake news epidemic Cory Doctorow

security Google to kill Flash by default in Chrome. Rob Beschizza

politics Kremlin offers Silicon Valley a Russian Internet with Chinese characteristics Cory Doctorow