Currently Reading:

[Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (by Tony Judt, Penguin Press)]

[The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us (by Richard O. Prum)]

Reading List

2023-03-19

  1. [Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin” – Krebs on Security (by Brian Krebs, KrebsOnSecurity)]

  2. [Americans Don’t Care About the Iraqi Dead. They Don’t Even Care About Their Own (by Peter Maass, The Intercept)]

2023-01-07

  1. [What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround? (by Ted Gioia)]

  2. [Chinese researchers' claimed quantum encryption crack looks unlikely (by Thomas Claburn, The Register)]

  3. [Sabri al-Qurashi Has Lived Without Legal Status in Kazakhstan Since His 2014 Guantánamo Release (by Elise Swain, The Intercept)]

2023-01-08

  1. [Ana Montes: Top spy freed in US after more than 20 years (by Matt Murphy, BBC News)]

  2. [It’s Easy to Write a Memoir About War — but Hard to Write an Anti-War Memoir (by Peter Maass, The Intercept)]

2023-01-09

  1. [Taiwan rolls out tax credits for chipmakers to keep R&D local (by Dan Robinson, The Register)]

  2. [Hannah Arendt Was Really a Prophet Against Conformity (by David Bromwich, The Nation)]

2023-01-10

  1. [Exclusive: Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge Hours After Elon Musk Announces “Self-Driving” Feature (by Ken Klippenstein, The Intercept)]

2023-01-12

  1. [The United States’ Global Power Is Fading Fast (by Alfred McCoy, The Nation)]

  2. [Lobsters versus right whales: The latest chapter in a long quest to make fishing more sustainable (by Blake Earle, The Conversation)]

  3. [Microsoft to offer unlimited time off for US staff (by Paul Kunert and Jeff Burt, The Register)]

2023-01-15

  1. [NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again (by Brandon Vigliarolo, The Register)]
  2. [CircleCI’s hack caused by malware stealing engineer’s 2FA-backed session (by Lawrence Abrams, Bleeping Computer)]

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