- How spyware peddler Hacking Team was publicly dismantled (Endgadget) These folks sold hacking software to tyants, and they got their just desserts.
- What Ancient History Has To Say About Near-Future Doom (International Business Times) Senator Incitatus, Republican nominee Donald Trump. ‘Nuff Said.
- Confession of Hillary Shill from /r/SandersForPresident – thread is now gone but someone saved the content. (Reddit) Some detail about the professional trolls Hillary’s campaign. Money quote, “When even the scum of 4chan think that your candidate is too scummy for their tastes, you need to take a good hard look at your life.”
- AQ to CIA: You Are the Empire, and We Are Luke and Han (Emptywheel) Yes, the similarities between the Jedi and al Qaeda are striking.
- Kyoto University researchers suggests cats ‘use’ physics to hunt prey | (Daily Mail Online) They are biding their time until they can take over.
- I doomed mankind with a free text editor (Medium) He created an editor that uses only the most 1000 words in the English language. It was inspired by xkcd.
- Intel x86s hide another CPU that can take over your machine (you can’t audit it) (Boing Boing) And when (and it is when) a black hat creates an exploit, you will never know. Buy AMD.
- Digital currency Ethereum nose-dives after $50 million hack (MarketWatch) There has now been a second hack.
- Curbing Monopolies Promotes Growth, Lowers Inequality (naked capitalism) As Yves frequently Smith notes, Qu’elle Surprize.
Who amongst us does not like to listen to Richard Feynman: