privacy Facebook's $5B FTC fine was so laughable its stock price went UP after the announcement Cory Doctorow

finance New Sanders bill: If a bank is too big to fail, it's too big to exist Cory Doctorow

trumpism Leaked document shows Trump officials planning to force Americans to spend $311m-$11.8b/year to keep unprofitable coal and nuclear energy plants from shutting Cory Doctorow

security Equifax will give your salary history to anyone with your SSN and date of birth Cory Doctorow

Business JP Morgan-Chase paid its billions in fines for mortgage fraud by committing billions in mortgage fraud Cory Doctorow

Business Equifax waited 5 weeks to admit it had doxed 44% of America, did nothing to help us while its execs sold stock Cory Doctorow

Business Four years later, we learn why Jamie Dimon's JP Morgan Chase settled US fraud allegations for $13B Cory Doctorow

finance Wells Fargo also gouged small businesses on credit-card fees Cory Doctorow

Business Lawmakers' support for bank bailouts was correlated with their individual investment in banks Cory Doctorow

crime How Audi cheated emissions tests: if (steering) then (pollute) Cory Doctorow

law Judge OKs potentially lethal lawsuit against the world's largest banks Cory Doctorow

corruption Goldman Sachs really only has to pay half of its settlement for world-destroying financial fraud Cory Doctorow

sports Owen Morse sets hang gliding world record for piloting 222.22 miles over California's Owens Valley Xeni Jardin

science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

tabloids America set to be nuked, anarchy in the US, and the men who knew too much, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Science A Scheme of Heaven is a deep investigation of astrology from a scientist’s perspective Ferdinando Buscema

Technology Theft of CIA's 'Vault 7' hacking tools in 2016 resulted from "woefully lax" security, new report says Xeni Jardin

politics VOA to be run by Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, and Trump CEO pick Michael Pack, so two top VOA directors just quit Xeni Jardin

Science Virgin Orbit fails on first rocket launch attempt, 'next big test ASAP' for Richard Branson’s spaceflight firm Xeni Jardin