Gadgets After random surveillance images started to show up on users' devices, Google blocked Xiaomi from running Assistant or Google Home Cory Doctorow

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science fiction William Gibson profiled in The New Yorker Mark Frauenfelder

Copyfight "Softbody Tetris": what if tetronimoes were made of jello? Cory Doctorow

trump Taxpayers spent $10b for Trump's wall (so far); smugglers are cutting it with $100 saws and $10 blades Cory Doctorow

science fiction Beautiful boxed set of two Octavia Butler novels Mark Frauenfelder

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happy mutants Le Creuset announces a line of high-end Star Wars cookwear Cory Doctorow

law 9th circuit: scraping publicly-accessible websites is fine Rob Beschizza

News Uber and Lyft gouge their drivers Jason Weisberger

b-side Teenager uses fridge to tweet after her mother takes her phone away Mark Frauenfelder

b-side GE is totally messing with customers who need help resetting a lightbulb Jason Weisberger

b-side Mishaps during landing on early aircraft carriers Jason Weisberger

b-side Florida Governor says the FBI told him how the Russians hacked Florida voting machines, but swore him to secrecy Cory Doctorow

racism Insistent not-a-racist GOP Rep. Mark Meadows displays his racism Jason Weisberger

b-side Yikes is over. Rob Beschizza

Business Lin-Manuel Miranda rescues New York's beloved, century-old Drama Book Shop Cory Doctorow

b-side Drones deliberately taunting Gatwick Airport, shutting it down for nearly 24 hours so far Carla Sinclair

b-side 500-year-old skeleton clad in thigh-high leather boots found face down in London mud Rob Beschizza

christ what an asshole Trump cybersecurity advisor Rudy Giuliani has no idea how the internet works Cory Doctorow