Business Verizon says it will buy Blue Jeans Network, Zoom competitor, reportedly for under $500 million Xeni Jardin
occult Floria Sigismondi spends 72 hours filming legendary outre filmmaker, Kenneth Anger, at the Chateau Marmont Gareth Branwyn
scams Palm reader arrested for scamming $71,000 to banish demon from victim's daughter David Pescovitz
happy mutants Thomas Piketty's new book uses data to trace how inequality changes ideology Cory Doctorow
privacy The Pentagon has a device that can identify people without seeing their face Mark Frauenfelder
books The strange "No Frills" series of totally generic genre fiction books from the 1980s David Pescovitz
predatory lending How New York taxi drivers were conned and bankrupted by medallion loan sharks Mark Frauenfelder
kakistocrats Guess why the Sultan of Brunei changed his mind about his gay death penalty Mark Frauenfelder
security Security researcher reveals grotesque vulnerabilities in "Yelp-for-MAGA" app and its snowflake owner calls in the FBI Cory Doctorow