pollution A pandemic seems like a great time to *checks notes* weaken regulations on toxic pollutants? Thom Dunn

News CCPA: California to enforce new digital privacy law starting today, despite calls for further pandemic delay Xeni Jardin

trump Here's what's in Trump's executive order against social media companies David Pescovitz

Technology North Dakota's COVID-19 contact tracing app leaks location data to Foursquare and a Google Ads ID: Report Xeni Jardin

money Fellow buried $280,000, not a good investment David Pescovitz

police Protesting is a non-essential activity, according to the Raleigh Police Department Thom Dunn

coronavirus Mysterious drone flies over New York park warning people to "maintain a social distance" Carla Sinclair

makers Autodesk's former CEO and his maker friends are cranking out face shields for nurses and doctors David Pescovitz

real estate The US government just "disestablished" a Native American reservation Thom Dunn

Business DOJ charges Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou with racketeering, conspiracy to steal IP Xeni Jardin

privacy The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow

Gadgets A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) Cory Doctorow

Technology Feds charge Evil Corp, Russia-based creators of Dridex malware, in $100 million bank hacking spree Xeni Jardin

Technology T-Mobile confirms 1 million hit by data breach Xeni Jardin

climate change What happens when climate change ravages graveyards? Thom Dunn

Copyfight Adversarial Interoperability Cory Doctorow

guns Apple and Google ordered by U.S. to provide names, phone, other data on 10,000+ users of this gun scope app Xeni Jardin

Business Interoperability: Fix the internet, not the tech companies Cory Doctorow

Business Understanding "transfer pricing": how corporations dodge taxes through financial colonialism Cory Doctorow

Audio Podcast number 300: "Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More Civilized Age to Slay Today's Monopolies" Cory Doctorow