security Assessing the security of devices by measuring how many difficult things the programmers tried to do Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow

law Creating a "coercion resistant" communications system Cory Doctorow

Business Structural Separation: antitrust's tried-and-true weapon for monopolists who bottleneck markets Cory Doctorow

Business Bunnie Huang's tour-de-force explanation of how hardware implants and supply chain hacks work Cory Doctorow

infosec A deep dive into the technical feasibility of Bloomberg's controversial "Chinese backdoored servers" story Cory Doctorow

security Stylistic analysis can de-anonymize code, even compiled code Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Stealing data from airgapped computers by using power fluctuations as a covert channel Cory Doctorow

Entertainment Star Wars: Rey is the new Anakin (but better) Caroline Siede

security Google says it can mitigate Spectre with "negligible" effect Cory Doctorow

web theory Botcheck.me: a plugin that predicts whether a Twitter user is a bot Cory Doctorow

makers In an engineering paper, bunnie Huang and Ed Snowden describe a malware-resistant hardware Iphone privacy overlay Cory Doctorow

NASA How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record Ron Barry

science fiction The Android’s Prehistoric Menagerie A Merc Rustad

Death, Science, Sexology: Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum Mark Dery

books NerdFit: Why Techies Love CrossFit JC Herz

Web Trackers Paint a Fresh Picture of You Glenn Fleishman

Games Plagiarism claims roil chess coding scene Rob Beschizza