robots Is it OK to torture a robot? Mark Frauenfelder

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

Robert Anton Wilson Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy to become TV series Gareth Branwyn

AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow

books Crowdfunding a picture book about resisting surveillance Cory Doctorow

Business Patronscan wants cities to require bars to scan your ID with its service so it can maintain a secret, unaccountable blacklist Cory Doctorow

happy mutants To do in Toronto: the Retro Futures exhibit at Metro Reference Library Cory Doctorow

privacy Americans believe that they should own the mountains of data produced by their cars, but they don't Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Edward Snowden to keynote London's ORGCON! Cory Doctorow

Copyfight EU hijacking: self-driving car data will be copyrighted…by the manufacturer Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Want the platforms to police bad speech and fake news? The copyright wars want a word with you. Cory Doctorow

Business How the EU will force all artists to use Youtube, forever Cory Doctorow

Copyfight The Open Revolution: the vital struggle of open vs closed, free vs unfree Rufus Pollock

pew pew pew New, unusued Robotron cabinet found still in the box Clive Thompson

Copyfight The EU's latest copyright proposal is so bad, it even outlaws Creative Commons licenses Cory Doctorow

robots San Francisco put the kibosh on delivery robots for now David Pescovitz

DRONES Chris Anderson: Drone mogul and former bass player for REM (no, not *that* REM). Rob Reid

privacy The future of digital rights in the UK will start at ORGCon 17, London, Nov 4-5 Cory Doctorow

Copyfight A glimpse of the European Commission's plans for ham-fisted, indiscriminate mass online censorship Cory Doctorow

Disney Disney will pivot Epcot away from its "sponsored content" model Cory Doctorow