“Local farmers, authorities came to believe, were systematically destroying vital weather data in order to falsely claim millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded crop insurance, for a drought they made up.”

The Colorado Sun

Wrecked rain gauges. Whistleblowers. Million-dollar payouts and manhunts. Then a Colorado crop fraud got really crazy.

The sordid story of two ranchers who conspired to tamper with rain gauges on the Colorado-Kansas plains to get millions in false insurance claims

I am curious whether this will be a surprising #accessibility win because there are people who won't wear hearing aids but will buy popular earbuds which don't have a stigma (“they make me look old!” – certain people I knew who used to go to Who concerts without earplugs). If true, that would be a depressing little mirror on our culture.

The Verge

The AirPods Pro 2 will soon double as hearing aids

As soon as the feature clears it’s FDA approval anyway.

I am still chuckling about this:

Front-End Social

Large Heydon Collider (@heydon@front-end.social)

📼 What Is React.JS? Finally, a new video on briefs.video. https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-react/

This is a clever abuse of the way so many people have had their contact info breached:

Infosec Exchange

BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image Sextortion scams now include photos of your home. New, by me: "This week, several readers reported receiving sextortion email...

You Snoos, you lose:

Ars Technica

Dumb idea? $1,700 “smart” bassinet loses features if you buy it used

Non-new Snoos now lose some use.