music David Roback, co-founder of Mazzy Star, RIP David Pescovitz

Gadgets Luminar 4 uses AI to help you turn all your photos into masterpieces Boing Boing's Shop

sports Owen Morse sets hang gliding world record for piloting 222.22 miles over California's Owens Valley Xeni Jardin

tabloids America set to be nuked, anarchy in the US, and the men who knew too much, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

Comics Friday: the new digital-first, pay-what-you-want Lovecraftian YA detective comic from Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente Thom Dunn

Gadgets Upgrade your bedroom with premium sheets that won't break the bank Boing Boing's Shop

fire That time I blew up a power strip with a Marshall amp and a space heater Thom Dunn

Games Review / Control Rob Beschizza

Games Review / Manifold Garden Rob Beschizza

Copyfight Podcast: False Flag Cory Doctorow

media Splinter News shuttered, boss tells staff not to write about it Rob Beschizza

music Tiktok is valued at $75b, is spending $3m/day on US advertising, and in China, it has been turned into a state propaganda vehicle Cory Doctorow

gaming Review: Phantom Doctrine lacks the fun of XCOM Seamus Bellamy

Science That next cocktail could burn you – literally Seamus Bellamy

sexual abuse FLDS and Seth Jeffs are now digging into Minnesota Xeni Jardin

Technology Plants that glow could illuminate tomorrow's buildings David Pescovitz

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy

History Restored video of High Street in Marseille, France in 1896 Mark Frauenfelder

photography Behold! A 400,000 megapixel panorama of Prague! Cory Doctorow