Musk’s Latest Fraud Finding Isn’t What It Seems: So-called genius finds the results of other people’s successful fraud investigations.
Crime
2025-04-13
2025-04-09
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill: Why do I feel this won’t end well?
2025-04-08
Executions at 10-year high after huge increases in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia: Fewer states are carrying them out, but those that do so have increased the (known) count.
2025-04-06
Christian missionary group accused of public shaming and rituals to ‘cure’ sexual sin: ‘An Observer investigation has revealed evidence of safeguarding failings within Youth With a Mission (YWAM), a global movement that trains young Christians to spread the gospel.’
2025-04-04
‘I heard them take their last breath’: survivor recounts Gaza paramedic killings: An absolutely horrific incident.
Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that’s the price of protest in Britain today: On the heavy-handed and biased policing of dissent in the UK.
2025-03-30
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced: It’s as bleak as you’d expect.
2025-03-30: 📺 Watched Adolescence.
2025-03-27
Days after the Signal leak, the Pentagon warned the app was the target of hackers: Via tricking people into using the linked devices feature to devices they don’t own.
How Terrorgram Collective Influencers Groomed a Killer: Juraj Krajčík, who shot people outside an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava
2025-03-22: Another week of corruption and probable unconstitutionality from Trump et al
2025-03-20
Greenpeace must pay at least $660m over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury: I hope they appeal and win against what seems like an unjust verdict.
2025-03-14: US Senator Chris Murphy details just some of the incredible amount of very corrupt seeming …
2025-03-05: 📚 Finished reading The Great Post Office Scandal by Nick Wallis.
2025-02-26: ‘Everybody is looking at their phones,’ says man freed after 30 years in prison I mean, …
2025-01-31: Continued upsetting news about our inadequate response to the ever-present problem of violence …
2024-12-26
‘Wild west’: experts concerned by illegal promotion of weight-loss jabs in UK: Companies are effectively flouting the ban on marketing prescription drugs direct to the public.
2024-12-07
Rape trials collapse as victims abandon cases amid long court delays: Some of the measures designed to improve the experience for complainants may have backfired.
2024-11-26
Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info: A Japanese government agency was phished.
2024-11-26: From The Register: A local Japanese government agency dedicated to preventing organized crime has …
2024-11-17: One more failure in care: locking up children in dangerous places
2024-11-17
Fears grow over UK children at risk placed in illegal care homes: Many children subject to Deprivation of Liberty orders are being locked up in wholly unsuitable places.
2024-11-09: 📚 Finished reading Rough Justice by Wendy Joseph.
2024-10-30
Hundreds of ballots possibly burned after Vancouver ballot box arson: FBI investigating: Doesn’t bode well for next week’s US election.
2024-10-21
The ‘Internet of Things’ helping to provide key evidence in criminal trials: The Crown Prosecution Service’s take on the utility of our data-gathering gadgets.