Food The south's latest culinary trend: inadequate, rotting prison food, supplemented by cattle feed Cory Doctorow

russia Russian agents allegedly tried to hack lab associated with Skirpal poisoning investigation Seamus Bellamy

assassinations Kim Jong-un’s brother killed with poison spray at airport Mark Frauenfelder

putin Russian doctors "puzzled" over symptoms of Putin critic in a life-threatening coma Mark Frauenfelder

picks Why did 31 people suddenly die in a Pakistan village? A horrible mystery solved Xeni Jardin

harley-davidson How Harley-Davidson killed itself Rob Beschizza

trump Why tabloid reporters are like Donald Trump Peter Sheridan

tabloids His Royal High-ness Prince Harry’s Pot Farm, and stars with only months to live, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids A beheaded tot, isolated stars, and cure coronavirus with herbs, in last week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

coronavirus Toxic booze in Iran sold as coronavirus cure kills 300, sickens 1,000 Xeni Jardin

animals Coyotes on the streets of San Francisco David Pescovitz

crime White nationalists planned to murder cops and pro-gun protesters in Virginia Cory Doctorow

computer science Wireheading: when machine learning systems jolt their reward centers by cheating Cory Doctorow

security Model stealing, rewarding hacking and poisoning attacks: a taxonomy of machine learning's failure modes Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Tiny alterations in training data can introduce "backdoors" into machine learning models Cory Doctorow

laws Convict who died and was resuscitated argues that his life sentence has been served David Pescovitz

politics Roger Stone leaves jury selection early, food poisoning blamed Xeni Jardin

tabloids How Mafia Killed the Pope, Meghan & Harry quit the Royal Family, and the Obamas divorce, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

security Proof-of-concept supply-chain poisoning: tiny, undetectable hardware alterations could compromise corporate IT Cory Doctorow