Beach hut A tiny British beach hut with a secret buried underneath Caroline Siede

design Secret wine storage drawers built into stairway David Pescovitz

politics Trump wants 25% cut in US military fund to deter Russian aggression Xeni Jardin

military US Navy building a ship named after Harvey Milk sixty years after he was booted out for being gay David Pescovitz

picks As Amazon burns, Trump wants to log world’s largest intact temperate rainforest in Alaska Xeni Jardin

security Letterlocking: the long-lost art of using paper-folding to foil snoops Cory Doctorow

Business After Trump intervenes, Foxconn changes Wisconsin factory story yet again Xeni Jardin

biology Why humans have so little hair compared to other apes David Pescovitz

News On Twitter, Trump cancels Putin G20 meeting, but Kremlin says they have not been notified of cancellation Xeni Jardin

Science Steganographically hiding secret messages in fake fingerprints Cory Doctorow

fake news Michael Jackson is alive, Elvis is haunting Wayne Newton, and Sean Hannity’s secrets are revealed, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

fake news Kidnapping solved, Tom Cruise’s love plot, and inside Area 51 – in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

Business The US gave its client states hundreds of millions for anti-terrorism, then crooked UK military contractors ripped it all off Cory Doctorow

bad falls David Copperfield takes stand in trial for magic trick accident that allegedly left man with serious brain injury Carla Sinclair

star wars Drone footage of Disneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy Edge in construction Rusty Blazenhoff

scholarship Even if governments backdoor crypto, they still won't be able to spy on terrorists Cory Doctorow

class war To solve America's housing crisis, build public housing Cory Doctorow

Copyfight A proposal to stop 3D printers from making guns is a perfect parable of everything wrong with information security Cory Doctorow

eff Geek Squad's secret spying on behalf of the FBI went on for a decade and involved constant, ongoing collaboration Cory Doctorow