health Prosecutors and federal judges collaborate with corporations to seal evidence of public safety risks, sentencing hundreds of thousands of Americans to death Cory Doctorow

Business The audiophile MQA format really doesn't have DRM, but that doesn't mean it's not on the toxic rainbow of locked tech Cory Doctorow

tabloids Hollywood hypocrites tearing America apart and rioters battling to destroy the United States, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Business DOJ charges Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou with racketeering, conspiracy to steal IP Xeni Jardin

Business US charges 4 Chinese spies with hacking Equifax Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Sonos warns customers that their older speakers will shortly be e-waste Cory Doctorow

Copyfight China wants to lead the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization Cory Doctorow

security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow

books A true crime book for every US state David Pescovitz

surveillance How deceptive browser extensions snaffled up 4m users' browsing history, including Nest videos, medical history and tax returns Cory Doctorow

elections Voting machine companies: the names of our parent companies are trade secrets Cory Doctorow

security Futurewei would very much like you to forget it's part of Huawei Xeni Jardin

law Germany demands an end to working cryptography Cory Doctorow

#deletefacebook Europe's top trustbuster thinks it'll be impossible to break up Facebook Cory Doctorow

Business Foxconn promised it would do something with the empty buildings it bought in Wisconsin, but they're still empty (still no factory, either) Cory Doctorow

Business Big Tech's addiction to illegal, overreaching NDAs protects wage discrimination, sexual harassment, and other evils by "terrorizing" employees Cory Doctorow

class war The Pinkertons' plan for climate change: a mercenary army that guards one-percenters as the seas rise Cory Doctorow

corruption Public records requests reveal the elaborate shell-company secrecy that Google uses when seeking subsidies for data-centers Cory Doctorow

future The urgent threat of hormone-disrupting chemicals to our health and future Mark Frauenfelder

Business Leak: Apple is demanding 50% of the revenue from its "Netflix for news" product Cory Doctorow