Copyfight After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn't require filters, top EU Commissioner says "Article 13 requires filters" Cory Doctorow

Weird Mystery solved: why has a beach in France been blighted by washed-up parts for toy Garfield phones for more than 30 years? Cory Doctorow

happy mutants An astounding gigapixel panorama of Paris affords "an eyeful of the Eiffel" Jeffrey Martin

france Costa Rican measles outbreak traced to unvaccinated French tourists Cory Doctorow

News French TV cuts Facebook Live video from desecrated Jewish cemetery due to anti-Semitic troll swarm Xeni Jardin

Copyfight As the German Government Abandons Small Businesses, the Worst Parts of the EU Copyright Directive Come Roaring Back, Made Even Worse Cory Doctorow

Copyfight As Macron and Merkel meet to rescue the #CopyrightDirective, the world's libraries call for its rejection Cory Doctorow

scholarship Archaeological evidence for the Iron Age practice of embalming your enemies' severed heads with resin and displaying them Cory Doctorow

Science Teen self-injects verses from the Bible and the Koran that have been transposed into DNA Cory Doctorow

climate Facing unpaid overtime, cuts and austerity, French cops threaten to join Gilets Jaunes protesters Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Yellow Vests stand for and against many contradictory things, but are united in opposition to oligarchy Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Canal+ commits copyfraud, gets Banksy's painting-shredding video removed from Youtube Cory Doctorow

picks Those violent 'yellow jacket' protests in France? Facebook's behind that, too. Xeni Jardin

china Chinese spies attempted to compromise 4,000 French citizens on LinkedIn Seamus Bellamy

france Famous racist does everyone a favor and dies Seamus Bellamy

Gadgets Kerwax: analog home mixer, designed and manufactured in France Cory Doctorow

france Crows being trained to pick up trash at French park Rusty Blazenhoff

DIY This castle has been 20 years in the making–and it's not even finished yet Seamus Bellamy

Copyfight France's Front National (who support the EU's mandatory copyright filters) furious when Youtube's copyright filters kill their channel Cory Doctorow

france Real-life "Spider-Man" scales Parisian building to save dangling child, gets rewarded with citizenship Rusty Blazenhoff