china Massive leak of Chinese government documents reveal the "no mercy" plan for Muslims in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

surveillance The New York Times's chilling multimedia package on China's use of "smart city" tech to create an open-air prison Cory Doctorow

Technology Finally revealed: identity of hacker blamed for stealing from 300+ companies and governments, in 44 countries Xeni Jardin

coronavirus Coronavirus: These airlines are suspending flights Xeni Jardin

Business Rating the 30 most evil tech companies Cory Doctorow

cool Ice fishing in Kazakhstan is the wholesome content we need right now Xeni Jardin

Copyfight China wants to lead the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization Cory Doctorow

censorship Genetic Evasion: using genetic algorithms to beat state-level internet censorship Cory Doctorow

web theory Freedom House: Thanks to social media, internet freedom is down for the the ninth straight year Cory Doctorow

Science Researchers' budget blown when a migrating eagle's tracker chip connects to an Iranian cellular tower and sends expensive SMSes Cory Doctorow

china Muslim woman who escaped from a Chinese concentration camp describes gang-rapes, torture, forced medical experiments Cory Doctorow

Space Incredible photo from the space station that astronaut Christina Koch took of her best friend headed to meet her in orbit David Pescovitz

Technology Google, Mozilla, and Apple are using this one weird trick to block Kazakhstan's surveillance of its own citizens Xeni Jardin

politics What's Steve Bannon up to? Stoking race war in Paris, hugging RT's George Galloway in Kazakhstan Xeni Jardin

Space Watch a rocket launch from space David Pescovitz

videos Bruce Sterling on the next 50 years of climate-wracked maker architecture Cory Doctorow

Space Rocket failure forces emergency landing by joint American-Russian crew Seamus Bellamy

canada Russia-linked hacker Karim Baratov gets 5 years in U.S. prison & $250,000 fine for Yahoo breach Xeni Jardin

anthropogenics Intelligent engineering and planning brings (some) life back to the Aral Sea Clive Thompson

Kazakhstan This is what a wedding cake for some Kazakh one percenters looked like Rusty Blazenhoff