Recommended:

Law, Tech and Policy

How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling – Kim Zetter in Wired

We Know How You Feel – Computers are Learning to Read Emotion and the Business World Can’t Wait – Raffi Khatchadourian in The New Yorker

The Believers: the Hidden Story behind the Code that Runs Our Lives – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Google’s Vint Cerf Warns of ‘Digital Dark Age’ – BBC

How the Internet May be Shifting Innovation Away From Big Cities – The Washington Post

Crowd-sourced List of European Investors, Angels and Accelerators – via Hacker News, and The Periodic Table of Venture Capital Blogs – CBInsights

General Interest

Internet of DNA – A Global Network of Millions of Genomes could be Medicine’s Next Great Advance – MIT Technology Review

Burn After Reading – in 1971, William Powell published ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’, a guide to making bombs and drugs at home, and he spent the next four decades fighting to take it out of print – Harper’s

Interview with Ai Weiwei on Working with Hollywood, Remotely – ArtNet News