Business Chrome-derived browsers threaten to fork from Google, refuse to eliminate ad-blocker features Cory Doctorow

Copyfight How DRM has permitted Google to have an "open source" browser that is still under its exclusive control Cory Doctorow

Gadgets The GOpure Pod Water Purifier is a whole new way to drink safe, clean water every time Boing Boing's Shop

surviellance Most browsers — except Firefox and Brave — are eliminating the option to turn off surveilling "hyperlink auditing" Cory Doctorow

Copyfight After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations Cory Doctorow

politics Shutdown: Dot-gov websites vulnerable to cyberattacks, certificates expiring amid funding pause Xeni Jardin

Copyfight Google DRM for Email can be disabled by ticking a few boxes in Firefox Cory Doctorow

websites Turn web articles into readable, printable PDFs Rob Beschizza

security Ars Technica's Dan Goodin is being sued by Keeper Security over an article about a defect in its password manager Cory Doctorow

security Cheating Chinese certificate authorities, caught by Certificate Transparency, will get the death penalty Cory Doctorow

Business Google: Chrome will no longer trust Symantec certificates, 30% of the web will need to switch Certificate Authorities Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Google quietly makes "optional" web DRM mandatory in Chrome Cory Doctorow

makers Kano – a Raspberry Pi computer kit now has a screen Mark Frauenfelder

Copyfight Google's version of the W3C's video DRM has been cracked Cory Doctorow

security Google to kill Flash by default in Chrome. Rob Beschizza

google Google Chrome to avoid using Flash Jason Weisberger

corruption Chrome won't trust Symantec-backed SSL as of Jun 1 unless they account for bogus certs Cory Doctorow