law Judge throws off robe, kicks ass in court after defendant struggles with officer Rob Beschizza

police Rayshard Brooks: Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe charged with felony murder + 10 other crimes Xeni Jardin

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rona Video shows plain-clothes NYPD officer attacking bystander during arrest Rob Beschizza

copyright A pair of musicians recorded every possible MIDI melody just to get around copyright law Thom Dunn

photography The Smithsonian just released 2.8 million images into the public domain David Pescovitz

Gadgets Master the second best-paid programming language in the U.S. with this beginner-friendly training Boing Boing's Shop

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privacy New York Times analyzes a leaked set of location data from a private broker, sounds the alarm Cory Doctorow

crime The bizarre story of China's most prolific bank-robbers, who stole literal tons of cash and spent it on losing lotto tickets Cory Doctorow

News UPDATED: Tony Robbins accused of sexually assaulting high schooler at summer camp Xeni Jardin

photogrammetry "Removing the water": physically-accurate color correction algorithm for underwater photography Rob Beschizza

security Assessing the security of devices by measuring how many difficult things the programmers tried to do Cory Doctorow

twitter Twitter bans more psyops accounts: China, UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Ecuador Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Boost your data analytics skills with this master class on Tableau Boing Boing's Shop

cancer Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for cancer, again Xeni Jardin

AI OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 dataset. Can it write fake news better than a human? Rob Beschizza

badass older women 'Nearly toothless' Florida woman, 61, bites burglar, 34 (she's okay, he's in jail) Xeni Jardin

Science Artificial tongue's nanoscale "tastebuds" can sort real whisky from counterfeits more than 99% of the time Cory Doctorow