security Automated reception kiosks are a security dumpster fire Cory Doctorow

chicago Chicago driver goes full Blues Brothers, plows through suburban mall Gina Loukareas

mistakes Toddler jumps on airport conveyor belt, is conveyed to bag room Rob Beschizza

corruption UK cops are secretly harvesting all data from the phones and cloud accounts of suspects, victims and witnesses and insecurely storing it forever Cory Doctorow

This fellow figured out how to get free hamburgers at McDonalds Mark Frauenfelder

Entertainment Taylor Swift used facial recognition tech at concerts to spy on stalkers Xeni Jardin

canada My life on the road: A lost passport, no ID, and bullshit paperwork trying to get back to Canada Seamus Bellamy

law Canadian government investigating mall's use of biometric surveillance Seamus Bellamy

Delightful Creatures Rat takes up residence in ATM, shreds $18,000 in currency to build nest Mark Frauenfelder

Business Judge finds that Disney "misused copyright" when it tried to stop Redbox from renting download codes Cory Doctorow

videos AT&T's 1993 "You Will" ads, the rightest wrong things ever predicted about the internet Cory Doctorow

security A parametric model to 3D print housekeys from photos Cory Doctorow

interviews Interview with Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz Lisa Rein

History What to do with Confederate statues? James Glaser

music REM: watch very early live footage from 1982 concert David Pescovitz

mistakes were made People at DC's Union Station enjoy free pornography streamed from kiosk Mark Frauenfelder

venezuela Hyperinflation in Venezuela – merchants are weighing, not counting, currency Mark Frauenfelder

In Russia, debt collectors may sexually assault you or burn your children to get you to pay up Xeni Jardin

art Call for submissions: SHARE electronic art festival, curated by Bruce Sterling Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Pre-mutated products: where did all those "hoverboards" come from? Cory Doctorow