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Gadgets $350 USB stick claiming to block 5G is just a cheap thumbdrive Rob Beschizza

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Games The Sony PlayStation prototype sold for $360,000 to Pets.com founder Greg McLemore David Pescovitz

politics Trump wants 25% cut in US military fund to deter Russian aggression Xeni Jardin

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

Business TikTok owner ByteDance launches new deal with Chinese government Xeni Jardin

facebook 2019 was the year of voice assistant privacy dumpster fires Cory Doctorow

Robert Anton Wilson Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy to become TV series Gareth Branwyn

corruption South Carolina's magistrate judges are a clown-car of corrupt cronies, but they get to put people in jail Cory Doctorow

News UPDATED: Tony Robbins accused of sexually assaulting high schooler at summer camp Xeni Jardin

books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow

corruption Meet the deep-pocketed Biden Bros: lobbyists for arms dealers, for-profit health-care, Azerbaijani oligarchs, Comcast Cory Doctorow

nyc 'Feltist' Lucy Sparrow is back with an all-felt pop-up deli at New York City's Rockefeller Center Rusty Blazenhoff

infosec After banning working cryptography and raiding whistleblowers, Australia's spies ban speakers from national infosec conference Cory Doctorow

health Sleuths discover the source of $28m in dark money lobbying in favor of emergency room "surprise bills": private equity firms that own doctors' practices Cory Doctorow