Morocco's first female prime minister caught between the king, clerics, and feminists
Will Fatima El Mansouri advance women’s rights amid religious and political barriers?
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Require Police to Get a Warrant to Search ALPR Data
This post was co-written by Andi Cao , an EFF legal intern. Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are mass surveillance. They photograph every passing car and log where and when it was captured, building a searchable record of where nearly everyone drives. Cities should not
Rare photos of Aung San Suu Kyi spark renewed calls for her release
Myanmar military releases images of jailed former leader receiving books and letters from Britain’s King Charles.
Art Books on Needles and Threads
We recommend titles on fiber art, weaving, and textiles, plus Megan O’Grady on a new John Berger biography.
Brazil's run-off is heating up with large crowds and an insult-filled debate
Leftist President Luiz Inácio da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of the convicted former far right president, squared off in their first and only face-to-face debate before Sunday's election.
NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...
NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds and interviewed Panic’s Cabel Sasser about how they decided to refund their Playdate -buying customers for the tariffs surcharge they paid.
Hundreds Protest in Colombia After Far-Right President Removes Works From National Museum
In a Trumpian move, the government of Abelardo de la Espriella took down works referencing LGBTQ+ and women’s rights and political violence.
RocketWerkz' C# framework 'BRUTAL' is now available to all developers
Developers who want to complete control over their game's code have a new framework to lean on.
Hunter Schafer Reveals She Underwent Gender-Affirming Bottom Surgery
The Blade Runner 2099 star underwent the surgery last December and called it "amazing"
Do you believe in life after death? This is a great...
Do you believe in life after death? This is a great interactive piece by Alvin Chang about people’s beliefs about the existence of an afterlife and how those beliefs change over the course of our lifetimes.
Gowanus Open Studios Turns 30
This year’s iteration of the artistic assembly was a love letter to the neighborhood and its craftsmanship amid an era of remediation, development, and gentrification.
Beer With a Painter: Melissa Brown
“I want to visualize the fact that, despite our perception, reality is changeable,” the Brooklyn-based artist said of her paintings.
David Reed Went Where Lichtenstein Wouldn’t
He brought his optical preoccupations into the 21st century, without losing his love of artists from earlier eras.
GOP-linked PAC spends over $1M to boost third-party socialist in Ohio Senate race
The move is an apparent attempt to hurt Democrat Sherrod Brown, who’s locked in a tight battle with GOP Sen. Jon Husted in the Senate battleground.
Richard Riehle, Character Actor and ‘Office Space’ Scene-Stealer, Dead at 78
The prolific actor amassed hundreds of credits across film and TV, including Casino, Bridesmaids, Glory, and numerous Star Trek shows
PSA: Patch your Plex media server before someone hacks it
A researcher says attacks chaining 4 vulnerabilities is hacking unpatched boxes.
Rithika Merchant Summons Ancient Mythology and Mysticism in ‘The Dreaming Realm’
Merchant's fable-like narratives tap into our anxieties around the environment by conjuring instead a kind of utopia. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The
A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator
This is really impressive: a software engineer got a Game Boy emulator running at 30 fps on a tiny e-ink screen. If you’re familiar with e-paper, you know that they normally refresh much slower (2-3 times a second), not nearly quick enough to play even a simple video game.
Jon Stewart Is Staying at ‘The Daily Show’ Through 2028
Stewart will continue anchoring The Daily Show every Monday
A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past...
A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous exhibition at the Met. I hope I make it to NYC to see this before it closes in January.
ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support
ReactOS gains NTFS install support with new driver.
Let’s Give a Round of A-Paws to These Tompkins Dog Parade Participants
Santa Paws, Vincent van Doge, and the papal Pup Leo were among this year’s fierce competition.
Announcing Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS
Exciting news for Safari users: Privacy Badger is now available on Safari for macOS! You’ll need Safari version 26.5 or higher to use it. Whether you want to protect yourself from data brokers or just don’t want Big Tech profiting off your browsing data, Privacy Badger is here
Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and...
Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and tower defense games. “Nouns make buildings and other parts of speech make modifiers that you can add to a building to improve its stats.”
Kenya cult leader who told parents to starve children guilty of 191 murders
Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie was found guilty of 191 murder charges - all but one of them children.
Moonlighter developer delays public playtest of next game over concerns of AI cloning
Digital Sun Games is narrowing its early testing of ReVamp to its Discord community following fears of generative AI-enabled cloning.
Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams
I’d never heard of this before: in 1990, the BBC aired a program created by and starring Douglas Adams called Hyperland . It begins with a frustrated Adams throwing his TV out (too linear, too non-interactive) and Tom Baker (from Doctor Who) popping up as an intelligent
Paris Students Block Louvre Entrance, Forcing Closure
Students from the independent École du Louvre and the National School of Fine Arts are leading the ongoing action.
Rosana Paulino Reads the Archive Against Those Who Made It
“This history is dirty,” says the Brazilian artist, who sees the colonial past as an active force in her country’s present.
In ‘Aeolus,’ DRIFT Suspends Illuminated Glass Rods in a Sculpture of the Wind
"Like wind itself, the work only fully exists through interaction," say DRIFT founders Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The
EFF Launches Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS
Free Tracker Blocker Used by Millions Will Protect Even More Users' Privacy SAN FRANCISCO—Privacy Badger, the award-winning tracker blocker made by the member-supported digital rights nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), is now available for Safari on macOS. Safari
This Iranian Documentary Wasn’t Meant to Begin This Way
In Mani Haghighi’s new film, an artist’s extensive archive draws the ire of the authorities.
Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours,...
Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape , 4 hours, recorded live at SF’s Castro Theatre. This one’s going straight into the earholes. Soundcloud , YouTube , and elsewhere .
AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?
Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.” The post AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
These tiny snakes cartwheel to escape danger
New videos offer a closer look at a rare and bizarre escape behavior in some Southeast Asian snakes.
Diasporican Abstraction: A Cross-Border Cartography of Puerto Rican Abstraction
More than sixty artists explore migration, memory, and identity in this survey of Puerto Rican abstraction across and beyond the archipelago.
Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from...
Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from Building the Creature? “These are serious concerns. And I think we should all stop. Me, especially. Can anyone make me stop doing the thing I want to do? Apparently not.”
Smiles Meyer Queers “The Last Supper”
The Los Angeles-based photographer, who was raised in a conservative Catholic environment, is reclaiming the divinity of queer and trans identity through religious imagery.
RJ Mitte’s Mom Says There Were ‘Concerns’ About ‘Breaking Bad’ Star’s Mental Health
Dyna Mitte said she encouraged her son to speak with a therapist before his death by suicide earlier this month
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Consequence of Donald Trump
Writing for Vanity Fair ( archive link ), Ta-Nehisi Coates says that Donald Trump is the most visionary politician of his era. Through a mix of moxie, cynicism, and misanthropy, Trump has made himself into the dominant American of our age. Sometimes a man meets his moment, and
Exiled critic of Rwandan president found beheaded
Former army sergeant major Robert Kabera was a popular YouTuber and singer, who had sought asylum in Uganda.
Come Face-to-Face with the Lion Nebula in the James Webb Space Telescope’s Portrait
The shape is formed by the remains of a dying star with a very dense stellar core that is shedding its outer layers. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The
Japan’s sample return mission to Phobos may also collect some Mars dust
Japan’s MMX mission will be the first to the moons of Mars and it aims to bring back precious rock samples — perhaps even indirectly from Mars.
Burundi striker Berahino retires at 33
Saido Berahino, who cost Stoke City £12m when they signed him from West Bromwich Albion in January 2017, retires from football at 33.
The Doxing of Jane Doe
"The alleged perpetrators in the 'Cornell Seven' case were doxed. But so was the victim. And the person who doxed her. And people with no connection to the case at all."
Capitol agenda: AI experts to school Congress wanted
One big concern is at the staffing level: getting people with a deep understanding of the technology around rank-and-file members.
Personal attacks fire up debate before Brazil's run-off vote
The race heats up just days before the run-off between the left-wing incumbent and his right-wing challenger.
