happy mutants Why are the data-formats in Star Wars such an awful mess? Because filmmakers make movies about filmmaking Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Internet Archive is putting a Trump-resistant mirror of the web in Canada Cory Doctorow

Gadgets iMazing handles all the file management dirty work on your iPhone or iPad Boing Boing's Shop

toilet paper Stop flushing shit besides TP and shit down your toilet Thom Dunn

Gadgets This tiny cube backs up your entire phone everytime you charge it up Boing Boing's Shop

apple Apple deleted files that I owned without telling me. It was inevitable, but I'm still pissed. Thom Dunn

UFOs Making a flying saucer clock (with data storage) controlled by a Raspberry Pi Gareth Branwyn

google Oops: Some 'Google Photos' videos in 'Google Takeout' backups were exported to strangers last November Xeni Jardin

infosec Firewalla is a simple but effective way to take control of your home network Thom Dunn

fbi The FBI doesn't need Apple to give it a backdoor to encryption, because it already has all the access it needs Thom Dunn

security When FBI complained, Apple dumped plans for encrypted iPhone backups: Report Xeni Jardin

Technology This 2TB USB 3.0 portable Seagate drive is perfect for backups Jason Weisberger

computer science "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow

corruption The government of Baltimore has been taken hostage by ransomware and may remain shut down for weeks Cory Doctorow

security #FixItAlready: EFF's wishlist for fixing tech's worst privacy and security choices Cory Doctorow

Gadgets WriterDuet Pro helps screenwriters collaborate online Boing Boing's Shop

News How Amazon‬⁩, Microsoft‬⁩, ⁦Palantir‬⁩, & other Big Tech profit from ICE and help Trump abuse migrants Xeni Jardin

happy mutants OLIVE: a system for emulating old OSes on old processors that saves old data from extinction Cory Doctorow

Evernote Evernote isn't looking too healthy these days Seamus Bellamy

Copyfight Cloud computing and DRM: a match made in hell Cory Doctorow