free as in free buses French city makes its buses free, spurring new ridership and decreasing car use Clive Thompson
youtube Youtube's Content ID has become the tool of choice for grifty copyfraudsters who steal from artists Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Enter this giveaway for your chance to win a $1K credit to the airline of your choice Boing Boing's Shop
security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow
censorship Tiktok has become a vital tool for monitoring abuses against Xinjiang Uyghurs, but that's threatened by the company's new censorship rules Cory Doctorow
#standedatnarita No trains or buses from Narita to Tokyo after the category 3 typhoon = chaos for thousands Sean Bonner
Business Understanding "transfer pricing": how corporations dodge taxes through financial colonialism Cory Doctorow
delete facebook Videos of organs being harvested from living children are big on Facebook now Xeni Jardin
Business Structural Separation: antitrust's tried-and-true weapon for monopolists who bottleneck markets Cory Doctorow
Business The UK government gave away cheap money for property purchase deposits, which the wealthy abused, driving up property prices and leaving UK taxpayers exposed Cory Doctorow
Copyfight How #Article13 is like the Inquisition: John Milton Against the EU #CopyrightDirective Ada Palmer
happy mutants Tim Maughan's Infinite Detail: a debut sf novel about counterculture, resistance, and the post-internet apocalypse Cory Doctorow
hacking team Coinbase bought a company founded by disgraced cybermercenaries from Hacking Team, and now Coinbase users are trying unsuccessfully to delete their accounts Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Labour report on executive pay proposes giving customers a vote on compensation, ending share-based compensation for execs Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Thousands of sleep apnea sufferers rely on a lone Australian CPAP hacker to stay healthy Cory Doctorow
