Russia’s Telegram ban is a big, convoluted mess

Brute enforcement has taken major banks, online stores, and Viber calls offline.
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1 in 4 New York City mice carry drug-resistant bacteria, study finds

More than a third of mice examined in a new report contained potentially harmful bacteria.
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San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble

The city’s building code does not protect its people from earthquakes nearly as much as you might think.
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Reuters Wins Pulitzer for Photography of Rohingya Crisis

(Warning: graphic content) An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touches the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh September,2017
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How the FTC’s 1998 Case Against GeoCities Laid the Groundwork for Facebook Debates Today

It seems that internet privacy protections are still “under construction.”
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Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break

An undercover author and an anonymous survey found that workers believed taking a long break could lead to warnings at an Amazon warehouse.
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Blowing in the wind: Plutonium at former nuclear weapons site

As crews demolished a shuttered nuclear weapons plant during 2017 in central Washington, specks of plutonium were swept up in high gusts and blown miles across a desert plateau above the Columbia River.
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