fraud Learn how to spot a fake painting from art forgery experts Rusty Blazenhoff

police brutality The cop who killed George Floyd has a long record of police brutality Thom Dunn

Reviews Recommended reading: The Forgery of Venus, by Michael Gruber Mark Frauenfelder

Business Newton's Principia Mathematica, George Washington's journal: archivist stole $8m worth of rare books from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library Cory Doctorow

uk Opendemocracy: the Libdems tried to censor our article about their sale of voter data, then used a forged email to intimidate us Cory Doctorow

Funny Gentleman gives fake name to police even though real name is tattooed on his neck David Pescovitz

happy mutants Banksy's art authentication system displays top-notch cryptographic nous Cory Doctorow

fraud The "Reputation Management" industry continues to depend on forged legal documents Cory Doctorow

security Bad security design made it easy to spy on video from Ring doorbells and insert fake video into their feeds Cory Doctorow

Business Britain is a money-launderer's paradise, Part LXII Cory Doctorow

surveillance Cops have a secret, unaccountable system for tracking you by your cellphone, and they abuse it like crazy Cory Doctorow

deepfakes An algorithm for detecting face-swaps in videos Clive Thompson

fake news KGB killed JFK, celebrity weight battles, and Bigfoot sightings in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

News Tabloid roundup: Obama's real birth certificate, a spy in the White House, murder charges for an aging star, and more! Peter Sheridan

design The Falsum: a free, open brand for the anti-⊥rump Resistance Cory Doctorow

futility closet Dismissed by critics, Dutch painter Han van Meegeren set out to avenge himself by creating "the ultimate forgery" Futility Closet

Business When "reputation management" becomes perjury, forgery and fraud against America's federal courts Cory Doctorow

happy mutants How an obsessive jailhouse lawyer revealed the existence of Stingray surveillance devices Cory Doctorow

Science Algorithmic guilt: defendants must be able to inspect source code in forensic devices Cory Doctorow