Business Plagiarism detection app vs Russia's elites: 1-2 fake PhDs discovered every day Cory Doctorow

b-side Boston Dynamics robot dog herds sheep Rob Beschizza

facebook 'GrokNet', the AI behind Facebook Shops, looks for body type, skin tone, location, socioeconomic class in photos Xeni Jardin

politics Sen. Marco Rubio to lead Senate Intelligence Committee Xeni Jardin

censorship Florida's COVID-19 'dashboard' official: I was removed for refusing to 'manually change data' Xeni Jardin

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

Games 'How to build a Nintendo Switch' for coronavirus #StayAtHome gaming Xeni Jardin

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

Food Scientists cook with bug butter made from insects David Pescovitz

Drugs Without the Hot Air: the best book I've ever read on drugs and drug policy, in an expanded new edition Cory Doctorow

UFOs Making a flying saucer clock (with data storage) controlled by a Raspberry Pi Gareth Branwyn

aviation The case for replacing air travel with high-speed sleeper trains Cory Doctorow

class war Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street Cory Doctorow

tips Re-key every lock in your home Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow

useful stuff Excellent lemon/lime squeezer Mark Frauenfelder

facebook Amnesty International: Google and Facebook spell trouble for human rights Seamus Bellamy

Technology Sand thieves and unreliable GPS near the Port of Shanghai John Struan

climate change UK officials blame asthmatics for the carbon footprints of 180,000 cars Thom Dunn