Gadgets Let a bunch of robots help you get your house cleaned while you are stuck at home Boing Boing's Shop
Gadgets The Power8 Create Combo Tool Kit is like Optimus Prime invaded your workshop Boing Boing's Shop
transparency How the Trump administration is putting public records under threat, so history may never know the awful things they did Thom Dunn
tabloids Adjectival overload, and the tabloids finally get one right, in this week’s round-up of the rags Peter Sheridan
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
class war The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with "moral whims" Cory Doctorow
makers The tactical evolution of #HongKongProtests: bolted-down barricades and calling out businesses Cory Doctorow
security Attribution is hard: the incredible skullduggery used to try to blame the 2018 Olympic cyberattack on North Korea Cory Doctorow
france Having burnished their reputations with extravagant promises, the billionaires who pledged €600m. to rebuild Notre Dame are missing in action Cory Doctorow
class war Connecticut's racist NIMBYs have used zoning laws and dirty tricks to make it one of the most unequal, racially segregated states in the union Cory Doctorow
Business Patagonia tells banks and oil companies that they can no longer buy co-branded vests Cory Doctorow