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

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Gadgets Suit up for the ultimate summer camping trip with these essential items 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

picks Can anti-transgender bias in media be measured? Andrea James

Science Skrillex song messes up mosquitos' attacks and mating according to scientific study David Pescovitz

health Bill Gates wants us to fear mosquitoes, not sharks Cory Doctorow

california Google sister company is trialing a mosquito eradication plan in Fresno Cory Doctorow

Dungeons and Dragons What's new in tabletop gaming (November edition) Gareth Branwyn

books The ethics of wiping out a mosquito species Christopher Preston

Science A CRISPR-based hack could eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes Cory Doctorow

canada Let me tell you about living my life on the road Seamus Bellamy

Business We're going to be eating bugs really soon now, again Cory Doctorow

History A brief history of how the rich world brutalized and looted Haiti, a country the US owes its very existence to Cory Doctorow

DRONES Drones to airdrop hundreds of thousands of mosquitos to fight disease David Pescovitz