Nature Vandals filmed destroying famous sandstone pedestal Rob Beschizza

thailand Macaques have colonized a city in Thailand and converted a movie theatre into a cemetery Thom Dunn

christ what an asshole Chris Christie says losing 3,000 humans lives every day to Covid-19 is a fair price to protect the economy Mark Frauenfelder

computer science Wireheading: when machine learning systems jolt their reward centers by cheating Cory Doctorow

dolphins There's a non-zero possibility that Iran has a fleet of Communist assassin dolphins Thom Dunn

3d Scientists put 3D glasses on cuttlefish David Pescovitz

Games The Ikea that exists outside of normal space John Struan

charity Charitable Giving Guide 2019 Boing Boing

happy mutants Tiny alterations in training data can introduce "backdoors" into machine learning models Cory Doctorow

security Researchers think that adversarial examples could help us maintain privacy from machine learning systems Cory Doctorow

cuba "Sonic attacks" on US embassy in Cuba may actually have been insecticide poisoning David Pescovitz

islamic state Terrorists are putting suicide vests on cows Seamus Bellamy

privacy Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle Cory Doctorow

security Compromised speakers can be forced to play tones so loud that the speakers start to melt Cory Doctorow

security Autonomous vehicles fooled by drones that project too-quick-for-humans road-signs Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Karl Schroeder's "Stealing Worlds": visionary science fiction of a way through the climate and inequality crises Cory Doctorow

picks 'Confederate militia' boss who abused immigrants at gunpoint attacked in jail with 'non-life-threatening injuries' Xeni Jardin

happy mutants A 40cm-square patch that renders you invisible to person-detecting AIs Cory Doctorow

animals Rare giant bird kills Florida man David Pescovitz

security Small stickers on the ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing traffic lane Cory Doctorow