mystery attacks Victims of mysterious attack at US embassy in Cuba now have "brain abnormalities" Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids America set to be nuked, anarchy in the US, and the men who knew too much, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

COVID-19 COVID-19 may be attacking the hearts of some infected individuals Seamus Bellamy

Technology Sand thieves and unreliable GPS near the Port of Shanghai John Struan

picks At re-election rally, Trump calls Mueller report “an illegal attempt to overturn the election” Xeni Jardin

Business Bunnie Huang's tour-de-force explanation of how hardware implants and supply chain hacks work Cory Doctorow

infosec A deep dive into the technical feasibility of Bloomberg's controversial "Chinese backdoored servers" story Cory Doctorow

Science Those weird sonic attacks at U.S. embassies? Microwave weapons, experts say. Xeni Jardin

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

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

idjits GOP Senate candidate says women have the right to make him a "home cooked dinner every night at six" Mark Frauenfelder

Deborah Harry Blondie fans: Here's Deborah Harry's old screen test for the 1980 movie Union City Carla Sinclair

Business Plagiarism detection app vs Russia's elites: 1-2 fake PhDs discovered every day Cory Doctorow

law Exclusive: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks' malware checklist Cory Doctorow

politics How the left-wing party establishments try to discredit candidates like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders Cory Doctorow

portland The narrative lottery at XOXO Glenn Fleishman

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing

Entertainment True Detective ends its first season as it began: with two indelible performances [Recap: season 1, episode 8] K.M. McFarland