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fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow
canada Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a titanic transfer from taxpayers to the world's biggest businesses and investors Rosemary Frei
prison tech Six tiny cellphones found hidden in a pair of Nike shoes at Oklahoma detention center Mark Frauenfelder
Business Before you ask your Chinese factory for a discount, make sure you won't be kidnapped and/or have your product cloned Cory Doctorow
Business The first-ever mandatory California drug price report reveals Big Pharma's farcical price-gouging Cory Doctorow
security Why haven't cyberinsurers exerted more pressure on companies to be better at security? Cory Doctorow
canada Grocer designed embarrassing plastic bags to shame shoppers into bringing reusable ones Rusty Blazenhoff
corruption UK cops are secretly harvesting all data from the phones and cloud accounts of suspects, victims and witnesses and insecurely storing it forever Cory Doctorow
education Today, Michigan regulators vote on conservative education "reform" plan to purge the word "democracy" from curriculum Cory Doctorow
music Spotify's antitrust complaint against Apple is a neat parable about Big Tech's monopoly Cory Doctorow
health One company bought all the retail outlets for glasses, used that to force sales of all the eyewear companies and jacked up prices by as much as 1000% Cory Doctorow
Business One of pharma's most notorious gougers is going bankrupt, but 2019 is a banner year for shkreli-grade pharmaceutical price-hikes Cory Doctorow
uk Local council seeks additional funds for Thatcher statue to pay for a tall anti-vandal plinth Cory Doctorow
fraud Grifter steals dead peoples' houses in gentrifying Philadelphia by forging deed transfers, then flipping them Cory Doctorow
