Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Plea for Regulation is an Enormous Cop-Out - The social media giant follows an old tech playbook: Break things and let someone else clean up.

Bloomberg Just Bought CityLab–and Put Half Its Reporters Out of a Job

The Opioid Settlement Will Fund Desperate Counties–But Could Come at Steep Cost

Did America Forget How to Make the H-Bomb? (2009)

Researchers Assembled over 100 Voting Machines. Hackers Broke into Every Single One.

Millions of Americans’ Medical Information Is Available on the Internet, Where Anyone Can Take a Peek - 100s of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays & MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser or a few lines of computer code can view patient records.

Dr. Jen Gunter Wants to Protect Your Vagina From Gwyneth Paltrow; and from politicians trying to regulate your body with pseudoscience

Why Reddit Is Losing Its Battle with Online Hate - New research shows how the message board keeps giving bigotry a home.

Study finds that in rural areas of the states that have declined Medicaid expansion ⁠— a key part of Obamacare ⁠— hospital closure crisis is exacerbating.

Washington Can’t Solve a Housing Crisis That Doesn’t Exist

An Updated Lead-Crime Roundup (2018)

POLITICS 7 HOURS AGO House Democrats Just Passed a Bill to Revive Net Neutrality

Anti-Muslim Hate Has Been Rampant on Reddit Since the New Zealand Shooting

Facebook Screwed Us All

A Scientist Who Resisted Trump Administration Censorship of Climate Report Just Lost Her Job

A Science Journal Funded by Peter Thiel Dismisses Climate Change and Evolution

Apple Is Doing More to Police Facebook Than the US Government – Mother Jones

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Sponsored a Conference That Promoted Climate Change Denial

The Juul Fad Is Far Bigger Than I Ever Would Have Guessed

Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much?

The Senator Who Wants to Keep Silicon Valley From Reading Your Messages Brian Schatz has a plan to make tech companies more responsible for user data

How Fascist Sympathizers Hijacked Reddit’s Libertarian Hangout

Fake Putin Twitter Account Fooled More Than a Dozen Major News Outlets. It also tricked the leaders of Italy and Greece.

Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scientific Study You See

Science Says Saving the Planet Could Really Be as Simple as Saving Trees

Russian Cyberwarfare Is Much Worse Than You Think

Power Outages During a Hurricane Can be Deadly. Solar Could Fix That.

Jeff Sessions Couldn’t Get State AGs to Back His Campaign Against Tech

The Incredible, Rage-Inducing Inside Story of America’s Student Debt Machine

Drinking Alcohol Increases Risk of Breast Cancer

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