coronavirus Every country in the United Nations agreed to a global ceasefire during the pandemic — except the United States Thom Dunn
politics Trump and Putin to talk of ending sanctions, 'whole [Russia] thing turned out to be a hoax.” Xeni Jardin
wikileaks U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning in hospital recovering from suicide attempt Mark Frauenfelder
Business DOJ charges Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou with racketeering, conspiracy to steal IP Xeni Jardin
Technology Feds charge Evil Corp, Russia-based creators of Dridex malware, in $100 million bank hacking spree Xeni Jardin
corruption South Carolina's magistrate judges are a clown-car of corrupt cronies, but they get to put people in jail Cory Doctorow
sports The potential number one NBA and NFL draft picks were both ruled ineligible by the NCAA John Struan
cloud computing The cloud vs humanity: Adobe terminates every software license in Venezuela, keeps Venezuelans' money Cory Doctorow
data breaches An FDNY employee may have compromised the personal information of over 10,000 people Seamus Bellamy
Old school "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization Cory Doctorow
Business Grifty "information security" companies promised they could decrypt ransomware-locked computers, but they were just quietly paying the ransoms Cory Doctorow
canada Vancouver's housing bubble was driven by billions in laundered criminal proceeds Cory Doctorow
surveillance Effective July 15, British porn consumers will be required entrust their sexual tastes to private companies' badly secured databases Cory Doctorow
