infosec Florida man convinces Western Union clerk to insert a thumb drive, steals $32K, does it again, gets caught Cory Doctorow
security Security keys are "transformative" and "revolutionary" for information security Cory Doctorow
privacy Bounty hunters and stalkers are able to track you in realtime by lying to your phone company and pretending to be cops Cory Doctorow
Space US silver dollar coin design commemorating astronaut/schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe David Pescovitz
Business Amazon to enforce social distancing in warehouses with AI surveillance software 'Distance Assistant' Xeni Jardin
finance The cum-ex scam stole $60b from European tax authorities: it's monumentally boring, complicated, and very, very important Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law Cory Doctorow
happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff
happy mutants Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy is looking for engineering, social science, law, and policy "visitors" for interdisciplinary one-year positions Cory Doctorow
books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow
books HOW TO: XKCD's Randall Munroe finds the humor in taking silly questions very, very seriously Cory Doctorow
psychology Eminent psychologists condemn "emotion detection" systems as being grounded in junk science Cory Doctorow
