photography This lynx became buddies with cameraman after spending months together in the Canadian north Seamus Bellamy

animal sounds Two displeased lynx have a screaming match with each other Carla Sinclair

picks Former CIA officer Jerry Lee sentenced to 19 years for handing U.S. info to China Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Analogue Pocket Rob Beschizza

Games 11 new games released this year for … the Atari Lynx? Rob Beschizza

video games Xbox-branded deodorant and other personal hygiene products David Pescovitz

wonderful creatures The mysterious wild cats of Britain Rob Beschizza

artificial intelligence Forbes is developing AI that writes first drafts of articles Mark Frauenfelder

books An excerpt from "Bullshit Jobs," David Graeber's forthcoming book about the rise of useless work Cory Doctorow

Food Review: Lynx Sonoma smoker makes the perfect turkey Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2017 Gift Guide

Weird Why did all these cows jump off a cliff to their deaths? David Pescovitz

art Fun retro-future space posters Andrea James

Delightful Creatures Why it is a very bad idea to keep a lynx as a pet Mark Frauenfelder

security Microsoft sues US government for the right to tell you when the feds are reading your email Xeni Jardin

crypto As FBI war on crypto intensifies, Facebook, Google, WhatsApp to intensify use of encryption Xeni Jardin

china China state TV airs footage of detained reporter saying he regrets writing stock market story Xeni Jardin

china China: police detain financial reporter for “spreading false information” about stock market Xeni Jardin

Business Google shakes its structure up with Alphabet, and Sundar Pichai becomes Google CEO Xeni Jardin

Games Trials Frontier: a well-designed motorcycle world exploration game Michael Borys