picks Aretha Franklin honored at Buckingham Palace by British Army during Changing of the Guard Gina Loukareas

Gadgets You won't want to miss out on these Memorial Day kitchen steals Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets That home office may be your office for a while. These accessories can bring it to life. Boing Boing's Shop

rip Basketball legend Kobe Bryant, RIP David Pescovitz

eff ICANN needs to ask more questions about the sale of .ORG Mitch Stoltz

eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz

halloween The CIA is offering…privacy advice? For trick-or-treaters? WTF? Thom Dunn

fake news There is no chemical that will turn pool water a different color if you pee in it David Pescovitz

Science Science offices throughout U.S. government closing under Trump at alarming rate Xeni Jardin

security EFF publishes an indispensable, plain-language guide to "cell-site simulators": the surveillance devices that track you via your phone Cory Doctorow

tabloids Prince Harry’s paternity nightmare and the Royal Family changed forever, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

facebook Facebook never delivered its "Clear History" feature Cory Doctorow

Business IPOs have sent Uber and Lyft fares skyrocketing, while driver pay plummets Cory Doctorow

art New Ways of Seeing: James Bridle's BBC radio show about networked digital tools in our "image-soaked culture" Cory Doctorow

Science Sleep is a brain-repair mechanism, new study proves Xeni Jardin

picks Instagram to blur self-harm images after Molly Russell's suicide Xeni Jardin

late stage capitalism Winners Take All: the Davos Edition (how elites launder looting with phoney philanthropy) Cory Doctorow

class war In LA, the teachers of America's largest school district are on strike Cory Doctorow

religion Probing a mysterious network of dropshippers, evangelicals, crapgadgets, and semi-vacant Manhattan department stores Cory Doctorow

Business Banksy booby-trapped a painting so it self-destructed after Sotheby's sold it for £953,829 Cory Doctorow