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Doom was video gaming's punk momenthttp://d.gu.com/LJDzH9 

George Zimmerman Auctioning Off Gun He Used To Kill Trayvon Martin // this guy, I literally cannot evenhttp://n.pr/1T86WEd 

Another amazing read by @kpoulsen! Every time I read these articles I have to get my "Kingpin" copy from the shelve.https://www.wired.com/2016/05/maksym-igor-popov-fbi/ …

"The G part stands for GNU?" [the judge] asked in disbelief. "Yes." "That doesn't make any sense." http://nzzl.us/bngzyie  via @nuzzel

Google just edged out Apple to become the world's most valuable company.http://www.vox.com/2016/2/4/10911364/google-apple-most-valuable …

Hrrm,reporter under court order not to disclose what he saw in trumps tax returns. But his book says Trump mobbed uphttp://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-12/time-for-donald-trump-to-release-his-tax-returns …

I withdraw my endorsement of yubikeys, as apparently Yubico has made yubikey 4s a black-box proprietary device.https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KonstantinRyabitsev/posts/4a7RNxtt7vy …

Wow. @ProPublica realized readers are using its site to find doctors who prescribe narcotics, no questions asked.https://www.propublica.org/article/an-unintended-side-effect-of-transparency …

Broadband access expanded in the last few years, but low-income Americans are disproportionately left out.http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/05/12/19659/rich-people-have-access-high-speed-internet-many-poor-people-still-dont …

The "broadband" industry to rural Americans (who don't live in rich communities): get lost.https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/05/12/19659/rich-people-have-access-high-speed-internet-many-poor-people-still-dont …

Twisted thing about the Ferguson effect: It's pushed by police supporters, but requires a very low opinion of cops.https://theintercept.com/2016/05/12/myth-of-the-ferguson-effect-is-hard-to-kill/ …

Meanwhile, FBI claims that videotaping police brutality somehow makes us less safe. You can't make this shit up:https://theintercept.com/2016/05/12/myth-of-the-ferguson-effect-is-hard-to-kill/ …

The government’s 18F, with its manageable hours and public service mission, is attracting former journalistshttp://nie.mn/1sgTO9H 

Not only is 18F mostly not from Silicon Valley, we've got a bunch of awesome journalists:http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/05/the-governments-18f-with-its-manageable-hours-and-public-service-mission-is-attracting-former-journalists/ …

.@RealDonaldTrump's butler keeps calling for @POTUS's assassination with no repercussionshttp://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/trump-butler-anthony-senecal-facebook-kill-obama …

Now @tollmanz has a detailed update on @WIRED's HTTPS delays and progress: https://www.wired.com/2016/05/wired-first-big-https-rollout-snag/ … Great work and impressive transparency!

It's also "essential tradecraft" for legitimate companies to protect their communications and data at rest http://t.co/cPzxe8U27i 

The problem with any in-system verification (printouts, examining PDFs): Malcode can corrupt that toohttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/business/dealbook/swift-global-bank-network-attack.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad …

SWIFT reports 2nd attack “highly adaptive campaign targeting banks” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/business/dealbook/swift-global-bank-network-attack.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad … [unnamed commercial bank; combo insider/malware]

the @letsencrypt client is dead. long live certbot.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/announcing-certbot-new-tls-robot …

Wow. Just wow. 1. That this bulk license plate scanner exists. 2. That the police violated Google's ™!http://motherboard.vice.com/read/philly-police-admit-they-disguised-a-spy-truck-as-a-google-streetview-car?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …

"everyone affected by the case knows what an API is, but the whole affair is being decided by people who don’t"http://motherboard.vice.com/read/in-google-v-oracle-the-nerds-are-getting-owned …

Michael Ratner, Lawyer Who Won Rights for Guantánamo Prisoners, Dies at 72http://nyti.ms/24MK9FA 

This Isn't a Google Streetview Car, It's a Government Spy Truck http://nzzl.us/FaQ1let  via @nuzzel thanks @josephfcox