crime Ex-Microsoft engineer convicted of 18 felonies after stealing $10M in digital currencies from Microsoft to make extravagant purchases Xeni Jardin
Business Newton's Principia Mathematica, George Washington's journal: archivist stole $8m worth of rare books from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library Cory Doctorow
crime The bizarre story of China's most prolific bank-robbers, who stole literal tons of cash and spent it on losing lotto tickets Cory Doctorow
surveillance Oh for fuck's sake, not this fucking bullshit again (cryptography edition) Cory Doctorow
law Court orders carriers to remotely brick phones that have been smuggled into prisons Cory Doctorow
corruption A detailed look at how US police forces collude with spy agencies to cover up the origin of evidence in criminal cases Cory Doctorow
law Those "heroic rogue GOP senators" just helped Trump shield Equifax and Wells Fargo from lawsuits Cory Doctorow
spooks Australia announces plan to ban working cryptography at home and in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Theresa May wants to ban crypto: here's what that would cost, and here's why it won't work anyway Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Crowdfunding a bike-lock that squirts vomit-inducing antipersonnel gas when cut Cory Doctorow
picks Baltimore police respond to report they secretly spied on city with aerial surveillance tech from Iraq War Xeni Jardin
security 100 million VWs can be unlocked with a $40 cracker (and other cars aren't much better) Cory Doctorow
transparency Research files on El Salvador stolen from human rights group suing CIA over El Salvador Xeni Jardin
