pixel art Germany tries 94 year old SS camp guard as a juvenile Rob Beschizza

apple Some iPhone Xs and Xs Max owners are having problems charging their new handsets Seamus Bellamy

tech Your Samsung smartphone is sharing photos without your permission Seamus Bellamy

crime Turns out it's super-easy to commandeer wireless towers Andrea James

glitches Mosh: an online suite of image-glitching tools Rob Beschizza

hacks Amazing Mario glitch allows game to be turned into Flappy Bird Rob Beschizza

offworld Old Sierra adventure games transformed into lovely glitch screens Laura Hudson

media Right-wing media ran dozens of "Middle East hot takes" by fake authors Rob Beschizza

politics Twitter uses 'manipulated media' label for first time on clipped Biden video RTd by by Trump Xeni Jardin

happy mutants The magic theatre of High Weirdness Ferdinando Buscema

tabloids Hollywood stars too fat and too thin, and the Royal reality TV show, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

happiness Why Olympic bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists Mark Frauenfelder

Games Watch a year of brute force beat Arkanoid in 11 minutes Rob Beschizza

nsa The NSA has reportedly stopped data-mining Americans' phone and SMS records Cory Doctorow

Business Nigerian telco says it accidentally routed Google traffic through China Cory Doctorow

AI There's something eerie about bots that teach themselves to cheat Cory Doctorow

your lyin' eyes Buzzfeed guide on how to detect "deepfaked" videos Clive Thompson

Backlash #DeleteHQ: Trivia players are angry with HQ since it's raising $15 million with Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Carla Sinclair

happy mutants The MNT Reform: a modular, open source hardware, blob-free laptop inspired by classic PCs Cory Doctorow

Games Mortal Kombat promo reel shows off old-school rotoscoping tech Rob Beschizza