picks 'Spam King' Sanford Wallace gets 2.5 years in prison for 27 million Facebook scam messages Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Here's how to harness the power of AI to help you screen unwanted spam calls for good Boing Boing's Shop

Technology State-sponsored hackers are using COVID-19 as cover for espionage, report from Google's Threat Analysis Group shows Xeni Jardin

music Why there's a cult market for really old iPods David Pescovitz

Business Robocalls: Finally, DOJ seeks court enforcement action against telecoms for phone spam Xeni Jardin

robocalls It's not just you — social security scam phone calls are 23 times more common this year Thom Dunn

Copyfight How to recognize AI snake oil Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Naomi Kritzer's "Catfishing on the CatNet": an AI caper about the true nature of online friendship Cory Doctorow

law 9th circuit: scraping publicly-accessible websites is fine Rob Beschizza

infinite monkeys StoryAI, a bot that autocompletes a story for you Clive Thompson

robocalls Tech-powered war on robocalls pledged by 12 U.S. telephone carriers and 51 attorneys general Xeni Jardin

meat Pumpkin Spice Spam hitting stores in September Rusty Blazenhoff

Tulsi Gabbard Tulsi Gabbard, most-searched candidate during Democratic debates, sues Google Xeni Jardin

crime Google Maps is still overrun with scammers pretending to be local businesses, and Google's profiting from them Cory Doctorow

privacy Snap employees used the company's internal 'SnapLion' tool to access Snapchat user data Xeni Jardin

Be evil [UPDATED] Google disables Baltimore officials' Gmail accounts created during ransomware recovery Mark Frauenfelder

video games Gen Xers, and their kids, play Fortnite together Jason Weisberger

google Gmail's automated spam-filtering is making it much harder to run an independent mail-server Cory Doctorow

art New Ways of Seeing: James Bridle's BBC radio show about networked digital tools in our "image-soaked culture" Cory Doctorow

garbage companies Once again, Facebook blames an algorithm instead of taking responsibility Mark Frauenfelder