airplanes Flight attendant forced to wipe passenger's rear Jason Weisberger

Business Frontier, a terrible company, is going bankrupt Cory Doctorow

eff ICANN needs to ask more questions about the sale of .ORG Mitch Stoltz

Business Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry Cory Doctorow

facebook 2019 was the year of voice assistant privacy dumpster fires Cory Doctorow

Business Genetic genealogy company Gedmatch acquired by company with ties to FBI & law enforcement—why you should be worried Jennifer Lynch

Business After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow

eulas Donotpay adds tool to automatically analyze lengthy, terrible terms of service Cory Doctorow

science fiction Amazon PR accidentally confirms the existence of a fictional dystopian Amazon technology Thom Dunn

ransomware The penniless hero of the ransomware epidemic has written more decryptors than anyone else Cory Doctorow

monopolism Bill Gates: if we break up Big Tech, we'll just have more bad companies Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow

eff Podcast: DRM Broke Its Promise Cory Doctorow

Business They told us DRM would give us more for less, but they lied Cory Doctorow

Business Interoperability: Fix the internet, not the tech companies Cory Doctorow

nyc NYC Mesh, a neutral, nonprofit meshing ISP, dramatically expands access in Brooklyn Cory Doctorow

mistakes New Dropbox uses half a gig of RAM and "sucks" Rob Beschizza

law Supreme Court greenlights Apple customers' lawsuit over App Store price-fixing Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole Frontier receives $283.4m/year in taxpayer money, neglects network, rips off customers — and Trump's FCC won't investigate Cory Doctorow

Business Charter's new way to be terrible: no more prorated cancellations Cory Doctorow