drm Justifiably angry man hacks evil GE refrigerator Mark Frauenfelder

beating the system Gentleman arrested for using mice and hamsters to get free hotel rooms Mark Frauenfelder

surveillance Cheap phone rocker for boosting your daily step count Mark Frauenfelder

beating the system Man pretends empty house is his, rents it out, and becomes official owner under squatters' rights Carla Sinclair

beating the system These guys figured out how to beat the "Deal or No Deal" arcade game Mark Frauenfelder

beating the system Profile of a man who created a horse-racing algorithm and made close to a billion dollars Mark Frauenfelder

beating the system Bar builds maze to get around zoning laws Mark Frauenfelder

travel The Airport Jacket is a suitcase you can wear Mark Frauenfelder

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

climate Five steps for thinking about climate change without being overwhelmed by hopelessness Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Get New Year's savings on some of the best-loved apps of 2019 Boing Boing's Shop

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow

protest Nicaragua continues to be on its bullshit Seamus Bellamy

genocide 57 countries are suing Myanmar for genocide against Rohingya minority Mark Frauenfelder

law Proud Boys jailed, obviously Rob Beschizza

donotpay Donotpay adds a feature that waits on hold for you, and now I'm ready to subscribe Cory Doctorow

elections Orban humiliated: Hungary's crypto-fascist Fidesz party suffers string of municipal election defeats Cory Doctorow

law Judge orders the State of Georgia to be prepared for pen-and-paper balloting by March 2020 Cory Doctorow