The Weekly Whatever: Delta plus ungood
Law and order
Apple announces plans to backdoor iMessage and scan all your photos for the government, says to think of the children.
Hawaiian authorities locked up and forcibly medicated the wrong man for more than two years.
The Sheriff of Pleasant View, Utah would like you to stop hanging your hammock from high voltage power lines.
Minneapolis police are welcome at only 10% of National Night Out events.
Tech
Facebook removes far more pro-vaccine posts than anti-vaccine posts.
Facebook tried to buy Pegasus spyware to use the technology to track iPhone users.
Facebook bans misinformation researchers, says it had to because of FTC rules. FTC says no, you didn't have to.
The whistleblower who exposed political manipulation on Facebook tells her story.
People are buying $300 Oculus Quest VR headsets so they can get actual customer service from Facebook.
Cryptocurrency mining business promoted by Steven Seagal was a total scam.
Behind the scenes of Elon Musk's epic Twitter meltdown.
How the Segway totally failed to change the world.
Twitter verifies fake Cormac McCarthy account. Again.
Amazon will pay you $10 (in gift vouchers) for your palm print. When it gets leaked, just get a new hand.
Science
Dude, what if starlight is, like, a giant alien quantum Internet, man?
Let's take a look at the predictions of global warming skeptics, and see how accurate they were.
Scientists work out how to mail mouse sperm on a postcard.
Photos from Deltapalooza.
Nightclub manager who mocked the vaccinated dies of COVID.
Cleaners move chair, accidentally shut down nuclear power plant.
California shuts down hydroelectric power plant because there isn't enough water to keep it running.
Other news
Visitors to Titanic museum injured by collapsing iceberg.
Cleveland Indians finally agree to rebrand — as the Cleveland Guardians. Except there's already a sports team of that name...
Isabella Rossellini has opened a Bed and Breakfast featuring a David Lynch room.
New video game portrays a ruined Earth turned into a golf course for visiting billionaires from Mars.