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music Monday: New Order's Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris's streaming tribute to Joy Division's Ian Curtis David Pescovitz

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trump Trump offered Assange pardon in exchange for covering up Russian DNC hack, says lawyer Mark Frauenfelder

apps Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones's last major project was this Canterbury Tales app David Pescovitz

security CIA secretly owned world's top encryption supplier, read enemy and ally messages for decades Xeni Jardin

music Paul Simon explains his song "Mrs. Robinson" to Dick Cavett (1970) Mark Frauenfelder

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

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