cool stuff Check out these clear products from Theodore Gray's new book, How Things Work Mark Frauenfelder
Business Nordstrom removes $790 Gucci 'Indy Turban' that looks identical to Sikh headwear Xeni Jardin
privacy Facebook hands hundreds of contractors in India access to its users' private messages and private Instagram posts in order to help train an AI Cory Doctorow
Business Vizio exec: we'd have to charge a premium on "dumb" TVs to make up for the money we'll lose by not spying on you Cory Doctorow
law The future of "fake news": Pepsi gets Facebook to censor jokes about plastic in its Kurkure corn puffs Cory Doctorow
happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle
videos Cities' emergency sirens will play anything you send them over an unencrypted radio protocol 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
internet of shit "Friendly" apps are good at maximizing engagement, but their context-blindness is a cesspit of algorithmic cruelty Cory Doctorow
Gadgets (Virtually) No one should ever own an Echo or any other "voice assistant" product Cory Doctorow
Games Gamer culture is so toxic that "being candid in public is dangerous" for developers Rob Beschizza
