tabloids Kim Jong-un is dead, Prince Andrew is broke, and Kobe Bryant killed himself, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
Gadgets The Gryphon Guardian protects your home WiFi network — and protects kids from themselves Boing Boing's Shop
transparency How the Trump administration is putting public records under threat, so history may never know the awful things they did Thom Dunn
Gadgets A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow