1201 Apple's extension of "Activation Locks" to laptops will turn refurbishable electronics into e-waste Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Jamf Now lets you easily manage your company’s Apple devices Boing Boing's Shop

surveillance Ring doorbell app packed with third-party trackers Bill Budington

cephalopods Octopus changes color while asleep, possibly dreaming Clive Thompson

neuroscience Debunking the "Bereitschaftspotential", the brain signal that seemed to kill off free will Clive Thompson

racists YouTube reinstated these extremist and white nationalist channels, apologized to them Xeni Jardin

television ABC "fined" $350k, among others, for using presidential alert tone on TV Rob Beschizza

trump PAC for private prison giant that builds ICE 'detention centers' gave money to these 50 lawmakers Xeni Jardin

happy mutants A machine-learning wishlist for hardware designers Cory Doctorow

Business Amazon stores recordings of Alexa interactions and turns them over to internal staff and outside contractors for review Cory Doctorow

Business Grandson of legendary John Deere engineer defends right-to-repair and condemns Big Ag for "taxing customers" Cory Doctorow

violence At least 11 killed in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting Rob Beschizza

authors Fear and Soldering, an excerpt from Peter Bebergal's Strange Frequencies Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants Record numbers of people have downloaded and used the Democrats' mobile app for doorknocking canvassers Cory Doctorow

air force Officer in charge of lost grenades fails his way into cushy new gig Seamus Bellamy

security A newly discovered strain of Android malware contains never-seen surveillance features Cory Doctorow

Science New gamblers who see a short video about slot-machine psychology don't get tricked Cory Doctorow

Comics Fan outrage kills Marvel's deal to promote real-world arms-dealers in Avengers comics Cory Doctorow

social media Instagram reactivates The Nude Blogger's account Mark Frauenfelder

for the greater good Video appears to show Baltimore cop planting drugs at a crime scene Mark Frauenfelder