Black Market Tinkerers on Facebook Marketplace Offer to Hide 'Recording Lights' on Meta Smartglasses - Slashdot

People are disabling the "recording light" on Meta's Ray-Ban smartglasses — "by my count, thousands of people," says tech journalist Joanna Stern in a new video report: STERN: "They're hiring people on Facebook Marketplace to drill out the light for as much as $100. According to our reporti...

Some major themes in Moral Economics (posted by the Next Big Idea Club)

Mary Childs, formerly of Planet Money, has a new podcast, called Mary in America (on which we talk about Moral Economics)

"How Moral Panic Creates Black Markets," interview by Nick Gillespie about Moral Economics

Smuggled in syringes: how Nairobi became a nexus for the black market in giant harvester ants

Court cases in Kenya point to a growing market for ants as exotic pets in Asia and Europe that has implications for conservation and biosecurity

Kenya's queen ants worth $220 each fuel booming global wildlife black market

The craze for collecting ants takes Kenya by surprise as smugglers zone in to make a profit.