aoc Bipartisan groups call on Congress to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment, which Gingrich killed in 1995 Cory Doctorow

corruption Elizabeth Warren proposes an "excessive lobbying tax" that would fund independent Congressional experts and public participation in policy Cory Doctorow

security Why haven't cyberinsurers exerted more pressure on companies to be better at security? Cory Doctorow

surveillance IBM developed NYPD surveillance tools that let cops pick targets based on skin color Cory Doctorow

Copyfight One of the net's most important freedom canaries died the day the W3C greenlit web-wide DRM; what can we learn from the fight? Cory Doctorow

picks North Korea test-fires a missile into the sea just before Trump meets with China's Xi Xeni Jardin

race Sampling bias: how a machine-learning beauty contest awarded nearly all prizes to whites Cory Doctorow

politics Why is Congress so clueless about tech? Because they fired all their experts 20 years ago Cory Doctorow

security Ransomware creeps steal two more hospitals. Again. Again. Cory Doctorow

football NFL acknowledges link between football and brain disease for the first time Xeni Jardin

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

What if Detroit were nuked? A 1979 government report found out Clive Thompson

Drones and the rise of the high-tech assassins Andrew Cockburn