Edward Gorey’s “Gashlycrumb Tinies” is a much-beloved, macabre illustrated children’s book that is a favorite of remixers of all kinds; but Mad Magazine’s Ghastlygun T… | Continue reading
I noticed that it was that time of the century and made a mashup up the film’s legendary intro, complete with Vangelis’s soundtrack, with real contemporary footage of LA. The main diffe… | Continue reading
This week, Facebook filed suit against the NSO Group, a cyber-arms dealer that supplies some of the world’s most oppressive regimes with spying tools used to attack dissidents, journalists, h… | Continue reading
Tomorrow, Toronto’s City Council will hold a key vote on Sidewalk Labs’s plan to privatize much of the city’s lakeshore in the name of creating a “smart city” owned by… | Continue reading
Jim Baker served as the FBI’s general counsel from 2014 until 2017, and he presided over the the FBI’s attempt to force Apple to undermine its cryptography under the rubric of investiga… | Continue reading
27 year old Michael Gillespie is a largely self-taught programmer and help-desk technician whose day job is working for Nerds on Call; when one of his customers asked for help in 2015 recovering fi… | Continue reading
Back in 2011, I signed up for a Zappos account so I could buy pants for a wedding I was in. Then I returned them because they didn’t fit. I ended up buying them at the local Macy’s inst… | Continue reading
Sean Carroll is a physicist at JPL and the author of many popular, smart books about physics for a lay audience; his weekly Mindscape podcast is a treasure-trove of incredibly smart, fascinating di… | Continue reading
In the wake of Berkeley joining the growing list of cities that ban the use of facial recognition by governments, RIT philosophy prof Evan Selinger and Northeastern law/comp sci prof Woodrow Hartzo… | Continue reading
For decades, it was a commonplace in western business that no one could afford to ignore China: whatever problems a CEO might have with China’s human rights record could never outweigh the pr… | Continue reading
Law school grads routinely go to work for crusading nonprofits and even those in private practice do pro bono work, thanks to a widespread understanding that lawyers have a professional duty to wor… | Continue reading
Being a global multinational sure is hard! Yesterday, World of Warcraft maker Blizzard faced global criticism after it disqualified a high-stakes tournament winner over his statement of solidarity … | Continue reading
Sara from MIT Sloan Management Review writes, “The entire site is free today through Thursday. To help you make progress on the problems you’re facing right now, they’ve unlocked their site f… | Continue reading
I’m 100% in favor of pro-competitive regulation of Big Tech, and that is because I’m 100% in favor of pro-competitive regulation of all our hyper-concentrated, monopolistic industries. | Continue reading
A lot of companies struggle with bias in the workplace, but for many big tech companies, the problem is a bit more extreme. Why, because it’s not just the human beings that are racist, a lot … | Continue reading
Some people sober up and realize they’ve made a giant mistake. Smithsonian: Outside the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts towers a totem pole by Charles Joseph, a Canadian artist from the Kwakiutl… | Continue reading
My mom always sewed my Halloween costumes when I was a kid, so I never got to wear one of the many licensed ones featured in the recently released documentary, “Halloween in a Box.” I&#… | Continue reading
At last month’s Defcon, the United States Air Force invited pre-selected hackers to attempt to sabotage an F-15 fighter-jet data system: And after two long days, the seven hackers found a mot… | Continue reading
Here’s a video of an octopus changing color while it’s asleep. Are the patterns in response to a dream? Possibly, suspects the Alaska Pacific University professor David Scheel. That vid… | Continue reading
YouTube denies that it punishes users simply for being queer or using queer terms. But users of the platform are putting it to the test and finding many such phrases that will lead to automatic dem… | Continue reading
[Stanford’s Daphne Keller is a preeminent cyberlawyer and one of the world’s leading experts on “intermediary liability” — that is, when an online service should be he… | Continue reading
I will never forget the moment on June 9, 2013, when I watched a video of a skinny, serious, unshaven man named Edward Snowden introduce himself to the world as the source of a series of blockbuste… | Continue reading
Profiled By Maureen Dowd at The New York Times, Disney CEO Bob Iger says that the company almost bought Twitter in 2017, but decided against it because “the nastiness is extraordinary.”… | Continue reading
The Mr. Creosote sketch from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life went viral this weekend after director Quentin Tarantino was alleged to have said it’s the only scene in film he was ever… | Continue reading
When social media was young, it was obvious that it had some pathologies — perverse incentives that drove people toward antisocial behaviour. Back in those days, a company named Flickr did so… | Continue reading
Iowa state court officials contracted with Coalfire to conduct “penetration tests” on its security; as part of those tests, two Coalfire employees broke-and-entered the Adel, Iowa court… | Continue reading
It looks like a keyboard. It’s warm. It’s the perfect way to keep your cat from sitting on your real keyboard. Meet the “Laptop or keyboard simulating pet bed.” Patent 10398… | Continue reading
Typically, marine photography is done in rich, saturated color — the better to show off the riot of life beneath the waves. But the photographer Christian Vizl has done it in high-contrast bl… | Continue reading
Pavel Dobryakov’s beautiful fluid simulation requires no plug-ins to play with. | Continue reading
#29leaks: someone leaked 15 years' worth of data from London's most notorious shell-company factory | Continue reading
Tech conference changes policy, rescinds requirement for chipped, unremovable bracelets for attendees | Continue reading
Towards a better practice of online news-corrections | Continue reading
Wework loses $5200/customer, lost $1.3B in H1/2019 | Continue reading
Watch gymnastics superhero Simone Biles land the first ever "triple double" in competition | Continue reading
Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle | Continue reading
Elsevier: "It's illegal to Sci-Hub." Also Elsevier: "We link to Sci-Hub all the time." | Continue reading
A visit to Bosnia's last pigeon post office | Continue reading
Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain | Continue reading
Adblocking: How about nah? | Continue reading
Claiming your $125 from Equifax is a "moral duty" | Continue reading
Mont Saint Michel and St. Michael's Mount: drone footage of two tidal islands | Continue reading
Scite: a tool to find out if a scientific paper has been supported or contradicted since its publication | Continue reading
SAMBA versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects | Continue reading
This AI turns your headshot into a portrait painted by a master | Continue reading
Nigerian astronaut lost in space needs $3m to get home | Continue reading
London police official warns journalists not to publish leaks on pain of imprisonment | Continue reading