facebook Algorithms try to channel us into repeating our lives Cory Doctorow

Business EU fines Google €2.42B for anti-competitive behaviour Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Netflix app will no longer run on rooted Android devices Cory Doctorow

class war Google order its secretive "raters'" hours cut, so now they're going public Cory Doctorow

google Google asked a website for its data, then just took it anyway Rob Beschizza

Copyfight Google tries to define a valid family. Predictable awfulness ensues. Cory Doctorow

Business Google: Chrome will no longer trust Symantec certificates, 30% of the web will need to switch Certificate Authorities Cory Doctorow

google Google Home: a $129 speaker that plays advertisements when you ask it for a "daily briefing" Cory Doctorow

google Crashed UFO in Colombia actually belongs to Google David Pescovitz

corruption If Google wins its trade secrets suit against Uber, it could tank Uber Cory Doctorow

security Wikileaks offers tech giants access to sourcecode for CIA Vault 7 exploits Cory Doctorow

Business The internet promised open markets, delivered rigged ones, then fake ones, then outright monopolies Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Google's aborted Ara phone was supposed to launch with an aquarium module full of wriggling tardigrades Cory Doctorow

happy mutants A Gmail plugin to do "emotional labor" Cory Doctorow

picks Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and other tech firms donated cash and services to Trump inauguration Xeni Jardin

trumpism Alphabet's Eric Schmidt calls Trump "evil" Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Google quietly makes "optional" web DRM mandatory in Chrome Cory Doctorow

security It turns out that halfway clever phishing attacks really, really work Cory Doctorow

google Most popular search queries for each state, 2016 Mark Frauenfelder

video 30-year satellite image timelapses of notable places Andrea James