Foreign Policy: Inside the cutthroat world of billion-dollar military supply contracts
Boing Boing: Cops have a secret, unaccountable system for tracking you buy your cell phone, and they abuse it like crazy
Fortune: Facebook, Uber, and the trouble with ‘God View’
Engadget: Lawmakers want to know how Amazon protects Echo Dot’s child users
The Intercept: Oliver North worked with cocaine traffickers to arm terrorists. Now he’ll be president of the NRA. Ed: I’ve never had a good feeling about the NRA, mainly due to the bleeding over of its politics into authoritarian positions on matters like the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, religion, blind cop worship, blind military worship, etc. Gun Owners of America is a far better organization.
WSWS: Ecuador hints it may hand over Julian Assange to Britain and the US
Forbes: Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth is up $13 billion since privacy scandal
Cato: Protectionism and trade barriers aren’t just bad economics, they’re also immoral
The Guardian: Scientists to grow ‘mini-brains’ using Neanderthal DNA
