finance $100 bills outnumber $1s, and they're stuffed in our mattresses Cory Doctorow

tabloids An Epstein tell-all, a vengeful Queen wannabe, and Harry & Meghan’s final insult, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

weapons of math destruction Airbnb has software that searches social media to identify creeps and psychopaths Mark Frauenfelder

crime Video shows cop lied Rob Beschizza

facebook Apparently Facebook did approve ads saying Republicans support the Green New Deal Jason Weisberger

security Thangrycat: a deadly Cisco vulnerability named after an emoji ??? Cory Doctorow

china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

social anxiety Study shows eye contact is not needed for enjoyable conversation Mark Frauenfelder

law Verizon/Aol fined $5m for knowingly helping advertisers track children Rob Beschizza

racism Why some people hate Jews and Asian-Americans David Pescovitz

labor The Big Lie: how polygraph companies convinced the US government to use pseudoscience on job applicants Cory Doctorow

corporatism The £7 billion Carillion collapse has the UK government talking about breaking up the Big Four accounting firms Cory Doctorow

ukpoli UK government will deputise newsagents to collect and retain identity documents from the nation's pornography viewers Cory Doctorow

web theory The predictable dystopian trajectory of China's Citizen Scores Cory Doctorow

security AMDFLAWS: a series of potentially devastating (but controversial) attacks on AMD processors Cory Doctorow

trump Six immortal superweapons the Democrats made for the president, which Trump gets to wield Cory Doctorow

Business Debullshitifying Uber's financial statement reveals a hemorrhaging fountain of red ink with no path to profitability Cory Doctorow

Science Swearing associated with honesty, say scientists Rob Beschizza

Big Little Lies Here's what made HBO's Big Little Lies so great Caroline Siede

infosec Technology should serve us, not boss us around Cory Doctorow