floss A bot has been finding bugs and submitting patches for them, successfully masquerading as a human Cory Doctorow

videos Methbot: a $3M-$5M/day video ad-tech fraud Cory Doctorow

web theory The future of trollbots Cory Doctorow

novels An interview with Charlie Kaufman about his new novel takes a weirdly meta Kaufman-esque turn Thom Dunn

tabloids Hollywood hypocrites tearing America apart and rioters battling to destroy the United States, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Comic Books Creator of the Punisher is organizing a Black Lives Matter benefit to reclaim the skull symbol from police Thom Dunn

Science At least 12 states inflated coronavirus testing count or deflated deaths Xeni Jardin

trump After Trump touts chloroquine + hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 cure, India pharma co to get reprieve from U.S. ban over quality concerns Xeni Jardin

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

media Royal sex scandal lies, lawsuits and hair loss, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

uspoli From #TelegramGate to #RickyLeaks: Puerto Rico is on ?! Cory Doctorow

art Magnificent photos from a psychedelic family's California trip David Pescovitz

surveillance Vodafone sources claim Huawei created a "backdoor" for its home routers and network switching equipment and then lied about removing it Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Security researchers identify "fingerprints" in 3D printed objects that can be used to trace their manufacturing Cory Doctorow

elections Brazilian electoral upset possible as fascist loses ground to surging leftist Cory Doctorow

class war Chinese students, made to study Communism, are rising up for workers' rights Cory Doctorow

Science Ampli: A construction set for medical diagnostics Jose Gomez-Marquez

trash A satellite designed to get rid of space junk Clive Thompson

barking trains Trains in Japan may be disguised as barking dogs to ward off deer Robert Spallone

music The strange, musical world of birdsong contests David Pescovitz