transparency How the Trump administration is putting public records under threat, so history may never know the awful things they did Thom Dunn
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
happy mutants Dick and Stewart: a new, delightfully dark and twisted animated series from Scarfolk's Richard Littler Richard Littler
Delightful Creatures Troop of monkeys think an animatronic spy monkey is a dead baby and become sad Mark Frauenfelder
security Massive trove of Russian spy-agency docs hacked from private sector contractor and passed onto media Cory Doctorow
surveillance How deceptive browser extensions snaffled up 4m users' browsing history, including Nest videos, medical history and tax returns Cory Doctorow
china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon's staffing up a news vertical full of crime stories designed to scare you into buying a spying, snitching "smart" doorbell Cory Doctorow
censorship Sponsor of the "Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act" sues Twitter cow-account for $250 million Cory Doctorow
climate New Zealand's domestic spies, obsessed with illegally surveilling environmental activists, missed a heavily armed right-wing terrorist Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Tim Maughan's Infinite Detail: a debut sf novel about counterculture, resistance, and the post-internet apocalypse Cory Doctorow
News Maria Butina plea hearing set for Thursday, her spy boss Torshin missing, Putin unhappy Xeni Jardin
