The U.S. government issued around 150,000 requests for data on Verizon's customers, the country's largest wireless telecom reported today. Most of these requests were subpoenas.

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An Indian certificate authority in the Microsoft root of trust has been caught issuing fake Google subdomain certificates that would allow nearly undetectable eavesdropping on "secure" connections to services like Google Docs. Read the rest

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In this clip from Smithsonian's "I Was A Jet Set Stewardess" feature, flight attendants from the 1960s reminisce about the multicourse meals during the golden age of jet setting.

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Artist Isabel Chiara, who is based in Spain, creates amazing collage art.

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I've written over the years about Simon Lovell's How to Cheat at Everything, a must-read encyclopedia of cons. Read the rest

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I had forgotten I started this tumblr a few years ago. I live in a place that sees a lot of tourists. Flickr is full of my house photobombing random vacations.

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A huge cache of NSA surveillance data found that for every person of suspicion whose communications are caught in the spy-net, nine more people who are not suspected of any wrongdoing are also surveilled. Many of these innocents are Americans, whom the NSA is legally prohibited from spying upon. Cory Doctorow looks at what the NSA means when it says "targeted." Read the rest

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One year ago today Drone-it-yourself kit: The DIY (Drone It Yourself) v1.0 kit offers you the opportunity to turn any object into a drone, simply by attaching four motors and a control unit.

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Lava Mae is a startup that renovates donated, surplus San Francisco city buses, fitting them out with accessible showers that can be brought to homeless people around town. Read the rest

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The Zombie Nation, a fabulous webcomic, has its own Etsy store, full of great zombie crafts (the zombie family decals are a steal at $1 each).

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In 1983, Trevor Horn, JJ Jeczalik, Gary Langan, and Anne Dudley, who would eventually become The Art of Noise, were applying their production magic (and Fairlight sampler wizardry) to the Yes album 90125. Below, you can clearly hear the birth of Art of Noise's pioneering style in Yes's "Owner of a Lonely Heart (Red And Blue Remix)."

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I really like Lumsing's Powerbank for its fast charging 5v/2.1amp USB slot. Just yesterday, Pesco was struggling with a slow charging battery and asked for one with a faster charging port!

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The Atlantic asks Harry Turtledove, writer of counterfactual histories. He points out that, in fact, the alternatives are written not to be realistic, but to throw interesting dramatic light on the world we do inhabit.

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From Nasa:

The spiral arms of bright, active galaxy M106 sprawl through this remarkable multiwavelength portrait, composed of image data from radio to X-rays, across the electromagnetic spectrum.

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A new study reveals not merely what millions of Americans already knewthat shrooms expand your mindbut how it happens. Read the rest

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The biohackers at BioCurious and Counter Culture Labs are seeking support in their effort to bioengineer baker's yeast to make Real Vegan Cheese!

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Enjoy Kyle Massick's amazing photos of 737 fuselages that fell in a river when the train transporting them derailed (more…)

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Tom Baker's Doctor Who scarf has inspired many textile projects, but Rebel AT's crocheted Fourth Doctor dress is a literal prize-winner. (more…)

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