mashup Careless Whisper in the Abyss: A Wham!/Slayer mashup Rusty Blazenhoff

health Coronavirus outbreak is a pandemic, WHO says Xeni Jardin

youtube Youtube's Content ID has become the tool of choice for grifty copyfraudsters who steal from artists Cory Doctorow

security Carriers ignore studies that show they suck at preventing SIM-swap attacks Cory Doctorow

religion God of Death deployed to enforce railway laws in India David Pescovitz

videos Straws are a distraction: how the plastics industry successfully got you to blame yourself for pollution Cory Doctorow

crime Cop found guilty of murdering man in his own aparment Mark Frauenfelder

howto Unhealthy coping mechanisms Jason Weisberger

happy mutants Thomas Piketty's new book uses data to trace how inequality changes ideology Cory Doctorow

family In-laws toy with woman's food allergy in horrifying letter to agony aunt Rob Beschizza

eff This is bad: the UAE's favorite sleazeball cybermercenaries have applied for permission to break Mozilla's web encryption Cory Doctorow

facebook Project Atlas: Facebook has been secretly paying Iphone users to install an all-surveilling "VPN" app Cory Doctorow

eff EFF just sent this letter to every official negotiating the EU's Copyright Directive Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Want the platforms to police bad speech and fake news? The copyright wars want a word with you. Cory Doctorow

Business Equifax says it's spent $200m on security since the breach, so everything's OK now Cory Doctorow

crime Equifax lets identity thieves raid "frozen" credit reports through its shady, obscure secondary credit bureau Cory Doctorow

Dashcam video of fatal Uber collision released Rob Beschizza

music Fantastic fingerstyle guitar cover of A-ha's "Take On Me" David Pescovitz

Space camp: Day 2 I could have potentially destroyed our moon base and still had time to eat astronaut ice cream Robert Spallone

surveillance Pentagon mass surveillance slurped up the world's social media traffic; then they dumped it on a publicly accessible Amazon cloud server Cory Doctorow