walmart Florida woman arrested for attempting to make a bomb inside Walmart using items from the store shelves David Pescovitz

security Wireless vulns in Medtronic's implanted defibrillators allow remote shocks, shutdown, denial-of-service battery attacks and data theft Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Inert Products: simulated suicide bombs and body parts for training exercises Cory Doctorow

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guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

Science The 2019 Halloween Candy Hierarchy David Ng and Ben Cohen

music THE BUREAU: Part Three, "Assessing Others" — with a Metasonix D-2000 Vacuum Tube Drum Machine Ethan Persoff

iot Hackers swiped an operator manual for a fancy airborne killing machine Seamus Bellamy

police If patrolling US soldiers can avoid shooting civilians, why can't US cops stop murdering unarmed black men? Cory Doctorow

security Internet of Battle Things: a militarized IoT where "cognitive bandwidth constraints" require "autonomous cyber agents" Cory Doctorow

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optical illusion This newspaper classifieds section is trippy Rusty Blazenhoff

animation Flip animation on a power drill Rusty Blazenhoff

microdosing Woman will share results of her year of psilocybin microdosing Mark Frauenfelder

family The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge Mark Frauenfelder

maps Global Shark Tracker Rob Beschizza

picks #BowlingGreenMassacre is Trump spokesliar Kellyanne Conway's latest 'alternative fact' Xeni Jardin

canada The Great Sulphur Pyramids of Alberta Rob Beschizza

Science Video: the literal shrinking dollar David Pescovitz

Diet Here's what this man learned from one year on a high-fat / low carb diet Mark Frauenfelder