television 'Jeopardy' host Alex Trebek: chemo for pancreatic cancer 'over,' now 'on the mend' filming new season Xeni Jardin

nerdcore Alex Trebek may leave 'Jeopardy!' in 2020 Rusty Blazenhoff

game show Jeopardy!'s first sudden-death tie-breaker: Watch Rusty Blazenhoff

Funny Jeopardy! video clues are getting harder Andrea James

Games What it's like to be on Jeopardy Glenn Fleishman

nfl The Root on that PETA ad, the NFL, and frustration with it all Jason Weisberger

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

tabloids Adjectival overload, and the tabloids finally get one right, in this week’s round-up of the rags Peter Sheridan

scholarship Facebook promised to provide academics data to study disinformation, but their foot-dragging has endangered the whole project Cory Doctorow

security New York Times abruptly eliminates its "director of information security" position: "there is no need for a dedicated focus on newsroom and journalistic security" Cory Doctorow

Funny Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek saying "genre" over and over and over David Pescovitz

politics Read the whistleblower complaint about Donald Trump Rob Beschizza

Science A generalized method for re-identifying people in "anonymized" data-sets Cory Doctorow

happy mutants SAMBA versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects Cory Doctorow

privacy Like Amazon, Google sends voice assistant recordings to contractors for transcription, including recordings made inadvertently Cory Doctorow

brazil Crisis for Bolsonaro's justice minister Sergio Moro after leaks reveal that he targeted Lula for political prosecution Cory Doctorow

Business Chrome-derived browsers threaten to fork from Google, refuse to eliminate ad-blocker features Cory Doctorow