security Report: UK "Ransomware consultants" Red Mosquito promise to unlock your data, but they're just paying off the criminals (and charging you a markup!) Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Here are 39 of the best July 4th deals to help keep some money in your wallet Boing Boing's Shop
tabloids Roy Horn lives, China lied, and Murder Hornets Swarm America, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
dna Scientists have successfully performed CRISPR gene editing in a live human body for the first time ever Thom Dunn
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
climate change Florida GOP finally admits that maybe they shouldn't have banned the phrase "climate change" after all Thom Dunn
cuba "Sonic attacks" on US embassy in Cuba may actually have been insecticide poisoning David Pescovitz
crime US Conference of Mayors adopts a resolution to never pay off ransomware attackers Cory Doctorow
Science Skrillex song messes up mosquitos' attacks and mating according to scientific study David Pescovitz
History A brief history of how the rich world brutalized and looted Haiti, a country the US owes its very existence to Cory Doctorow