web theory The most popular "privacy" tool in Apple's Mac App Store was stealing users' browsing history and sending it to China Cory Doctorow

Hubris Boy throws ball, ball fights back Caroline Siede

Spoken Word with Electronics Space Aliens are no longer visiting Earth due to an allergy to our cell phones Ethan Persoff

videogames Talking Adventure Games with Dave Gilbert Jeffery Klaehn

authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow

News Racism via dress code is not uncommon Jason Weisberger

Business Florida property-tax auction winner didn't realize he was bidding on a 12"-wide strip between two houses Cory Doctorow

happy mutants BATHDOOM: A Doom level based on a terrible bathroom remodel Cory Doctorow

big data Big Data's "theory-free" analysis is a statistical malpractice Cory Doctorow

calls for genocide Former senior CIA official says it's "quite near time" for Trump supporters to kill Trump opponents Mark Frauenfelder

Science Are cosmic gorillas limiting our search for E.T.? David Pescovitz

serial killers Zodiac killer's unsolved code "behaves like fake ciphers" and therefore probably a ruse Rob Beschizza

politics A Fresh Voice for San Francisco Shahid Buttar

out of control Frankenstein considered as a novel about climate catastrophe Clive Thompson

Games The Polak Game: an exercise to help reveal your theories of the future Cory Doctorow

books Less than Human, More than Human Jasmina Tesanovic

Business Our technology is haunted by demons controlled by transhuman life-forms Cory Doctorow

books 10 reasons why Fletcher Hanks kicks ass Paul Karasik

happy mutants Read: Rescue, by Sarah Gailey Sarah Gailey

security Undetectable proof-of-concept chip poisoning uses analog circuits to escalate privilege Cory Doctorow