Linkage

• Bill Cosby to Teach Young Men and Women About Sexual Assault (Rolling Stone) Who says that irony is dead?
• Flimsy Evidence and Fringe Sources Land People On Secretive Banking Watch List (The Intercept) Live in obedient fear, citizen.
• It Is Humanly Impossible to Be a Good Newspaper Columnist (Fusion) The assertion of the article is that, "How many fresh, interesting ideas can one person come up with? Put more plainly, how fast can even a good writer who does have fresh interesting ideas come up with them?"
• AES-256 crypto cracked in 50 secs using €200 of kit one metre away (The Register) Basically they measure emissions which correlates to power levels, whcih correspond to a specific byte being processed, so it's 2⁸ as opposed to 2²⁵⁶ guesses.
• White House Plan To Reduce Drug Prices... Is To EXTEND Patents? (Techdirt) The stupid, it burns.
• I Picked Prison Over Fighting in Vietnam (New York Times) This man is a hero.
• Mylan Sells Asthma Treatments While It Quietly Invests in Coal (Gizmodo) This is a classic self licking ice cream cone from the makers of the Epi-Pen.

Here is a your feel good story of the day, Luftwaffe ace flies in Spitfire: (BBC)