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scholarship Despite public pledges, leading scientific journals still allow statistical misconduct and refuse to correct it Cory Doctorow

Business Genetic genealogy company Gedmatch acquired by company with ties to FBI & law enforcement—why you should be worried Jennifer Lynch
hackers How a fishing guide's WordPress site became home to half a million fraudulent pages Andrea James
squid The Kraken Awakes: What Architeuthis is Trying to Tell Us Mark Dery
Business Twitter does something really, really, really stupid – will they fix it? Cory Doctorow
politics Nerd fatalism, nerd determinism: the problem with nerd politics Cory Doctorow
law Map of US police departments' policies on tracking cell-phone use without a warrant Cory Doctorow
AT&T's guilt-by-association algorithm for finding "terrorists" Cory Doctorow
Roger Lextrait: Eight years alone on South Pacific island Mark Frauenfelder