Greenland soars to its highest temperature ever recorded, almost 80 degrees F..

Hacking the Internet of Everything: Scientific American.

OSC Defends Whistleblower Who Refused to Disclose Classified Information | MyFDL.

The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic.

The Climate Is Set to Change 'Orders of Magnitude' Faster Than at Any Other Time in the Past 65 Million Years – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic.

The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It | Wired Opinion | Wired.com.

Proof the Feds Are Tracking Your Car | Alternet.

The Sleeper in Health Care Payment Reform – NYTimes.com.

The legal jujitsu of Goldman Sachs | Felix Salmon.

Metadata is in the eye of the beholder :: Hacking, Distributed.

True Stories of Life as an Amazon Worker.

When Talking About Science, We Need More Tony Stark and Less Big Bang Theory | Wired Opinion | Wired.com.

NSA’s Internet taps can find systems to hack, track VPNs and Word docs | Ars Technica.

Amazon Is Worse Than Walmart | Alternet.

Innovation: What are the best new products that people don't know about? – Quora.

Not Just For Gun Nuts: German Cops Are Experimenting With 3-D Printed Weapons | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation.

Ex-Employer, Not Secret Spying, Triggered Police Inquiry of 'Pressure Cooker' Search | Threat Level | Wired.com.

New York woman visited by police after researching pressure cookers online | World news | The Guardian.

State Investigators, Workers Cite Labor Abuses in Warehouse Empire | FairWarning.

Judicial Secrecy Turns Consumer Protection Case Into a Mystery | FairWarning.

….When the Consumer Product Safety Commission two years ago launched SaferProducts.gov, a database allowing consumers to report and learn about hazardous products, it was inevitable that some business would go to court to keep a customer’s complaint private….

Surveillance and the future: What sci-fi isn’t telling us. – Slate Magazine.

….The rebel who refuses to conform is a powerful democratic narrative, yet one whose plausibility seems to be under threat from the rapid advance of surveillance technology. How will our narratives of the future handle this change in today’s technological landscape? Bizarrely, what seems to be on display above all is a sort of denial of reality. A number of science fiction movies have actually had to “disinvent” existing technologies in order to retell the myth of how rebels against “the system” help preserve free and open societies….

Here We Go Again: Step Aside RMBS, Rent-Backed Securities Are Here, And With Them The Beginning Of The End | Zero Hedge.