military That text informing you that you've been drafted into the US Army? It's fake. For now. David Pescovitz

trump Reddit shuts down The_Donald for hate speech, harassment, and targeting Mark Frauenfelder

Business T-Mobile hit with cell phone outage, voice and text down for thousands of users throughout U.S. Xeni Jardin

black Buffalo Bills quarterback says he's sorry for saying "only elite white people" should have guns Mark Frauenfelder

facebook Over 30 ex-Facebook employees slam Zuckerberg's inaction on harmful political posts in open letter Carla Sinclair

Gadgets iMazing handles all the file management dirty work on your iPhone or iPad Boing Boing's Shop

News He tweeted once at Trump, then got $69 Million from New York for ventilators that were never delivered Xeni Jardin

web This website will self destruct David Pescovitz

Gadgets New iPhone SE, finally Rob Beschizza

Gadgets Past meets present in the retro-inspired Rymek keyboard that pairs with tablets, phones, and monitors Boing Boing's Shop

Business Google resists giving up emails, texts, & docs sought in state anticompetitive digital ad probe — reports Xeni Jardin

politics SDNY may charge Trump-Giuliani crony Lev Parnas over 'Fraud Guarantee' Xeni Jardin

law No jail time for cop convicted of rape Rob Beschizza

security Forensics team accuses Prince Bone Saw of hacking Jeff Bezos's phone to obtain kompromat and force Washington Post silence on Khashoggi Cory Doctorow

impeachment inquiry House Dems release Lev Parnas's handwritten notes about the Ukraine scandal ahead of impeachment trial Thom Dunn

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

language Codifying "Boomerspeak" and debating the ethics of poking fun at it Cory Doctorow

privacy Search-warrant demands that Google turn over account info, Android info, all accounts and passwords, calendar, contacts, cloud docs, financial data, photos, location history, search history, call records, etc Cory Doctorow

authoritarianism Political journalist Omoyele Sowore arrested and tortured under Nigeria's overbroad "cyberstalking" law Cindy Cohn

security There's a new iOS update out but maybe wait before installing it Seamus Bellamy