politics Trump met with Brazil official who has coronavirus Xeni Jardin

Technology IBM to exit facial recognition business, opposes use of AI technology for mass surveillance Xeni Jardin

Business Businesses and stores are adding AI to security cameras for social distancing and mask-wearing compliance Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Ring does not fight crime, say cops in 8 states whose PDs partnered with Amazon-owned home surveillance Xeni Jardin

scholarship Facebook promised to provide academics data to study disinformation, but their foot-dragging has endangered the whole project Cory Doctorow

Business China tech firms shape new facial recognition and surveillance standards at UN: Report Xeni Jardin

deepfakes 'Deepfake face swap' app ZAO is making people afraid of the future Xeni Jardin

christ what an asshole Pressed about Amazon deforestation, Bolsonaro proposes only shitting on alternate days to remediate climate change Cory Doctorow

History Watch this marvelous animation that summarizes humanity in five minutes David Pescovitz

happy mutants Optician Sans: a font based on eye-charts Cory Doctorow

Science How to tell if a comatose patient is actually conscious David Pescovitz

scholarship Puerto Rico's Hurricane Maria death toll is 70 times higher than the official count Cory Doctorow

History Ancient bad ass had knife for a hand Seamus Bellamy

privacy Department of Homeland Security wants to build a database to track journalists and their sources Seamus Bellamy

video Experimental documentary shows one African migrant's harrowing journey to Europe Andrea James

law Italy unveils a legal proposal to regulate government hacking Fabio Pietrosanti and Stefano Aterno

surveillance Scotland Yard charge: teaching people to use crypto is an act of terrorism Cory Doctorow

graphic novels Moon and Bá's Daytripper is a masterful novel by any metric Wink

books How to Talk to Girls at Parties – Neil Gaiman at his best Wink

Science NASA telescopes spot clues for how Giant Black Holes formed so quickly Xeni Jardin