Gadgets Consumer Reports Labs is hiring 8 staffers: technologists, journalists and wonks Cory Doctorow
cable company fuckery Consumer Reports documents the deceptive cable industry practices used to hike real prices 24% over advertised ones Cory Doctorow
donotpay Donotpay's endgame: a trade union for consumers to push back against abusive corporations Cory Doctorow
law Mississippi makes it a jailable offense to call plant-based or cultured-meat patties "burgers" Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Announcing: the tour for "How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems," Randall "XKCD" Munroe's next book Cory Doctorow
surveillance Empirical analysis of behavioral advertising finds that surveillance makes ads only 4% more profitable for media companies Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism LA's teachers are ready to strike on Tuesday, rejecting privatization of public education Cory Doctorow
a fox for every henhouse Top FTC official is so such a corporate shill that he has conflicts of interest for 100 companies, including Equifax and Facebook Cory Doctorow
eu The EU could give every European the #RightToRepair, but lobbyists will kill it unless we take action! Ugo Vallauri
politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin
picks Google, Amazon, Twitter, other Big Tech to Congress: New California data privacy rules too tough Xeni Jardin
Business The world is no longer willing to tolerate the plague of bullshit "agreements" Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Your smart TV is trivial to hack and leaks your personal information like crazy unless you disable all its useful features Cory Doctorow
