travel Planes and stocks both freeze this AM over computer glitches Carla Sinclair

corruption Trump administration gave a $700M bailout to a $70M truck company after it allegedly defrauded the Pentagon Thom Dunn

australia Australia's new logo looks like coronavirus stock art Rob Beschizza

new york city Legendary East Village corner store, Gem Spa, closes its doors Gareth Branwyn

politics Stocks plunge after Trump travel ban; NYSE suspends trading Rob Beschizza

tabloids Unstoppable plague, Doomsday is here, and Cruel Meghan, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow

nazis Ikea's founder was a Nazi, and never stopped praising the Nazi leader he called "Best Brother" Cory Doctorow

Business The guy who figured out Bernie Madoff's scam now says GE is about to go bankrupt Cory Doctorow

security Facebook must also pay SEC $100 million over misuse of user data Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Paul Krassner, RIP (1932 – 2019) Mark Frauenfelder

gun violence Woman at DMV started shooting because line was too slow, police say Xeni Jardin

late stage capitalism Texas Instrument's post-#taxscam budget for financial engineering is $5B — triple its budget for actual engineering Cory Doctorow

trump NRA kicks out second in command, Christopher W. Cox accused of complicity in failed coup against Wayne LaPierre Xeni Jardin

eff Adversarial interoperability: reviving an elegant weapon from a more civilized age to slay today's monopolies Cory Doctorow

abortion These corporations backed the politicians who will murder women by banning legal, safe abortions Cory Doctorow

security Thangrycat: a deadly Cisco vulnerability named after an emoji ??? Cory Doctorow

mcworld McDonald's in Austria will help US citizens contact US embassy Mark Frauenfelder

electromechanical tetris Tetris on a flip-disc display Rob Beschizza

Weird Australian man trades two cases of beer for real live unicorn David Pescovitz