ADSL was a miracle when it debuted, delivering high speeds over old copper, thanks to a protocol that was so adaptable to suboptimal media that it was said it could… Read the rest of the article: You can run DSL over wet string

I fondly remember the unalloyed joy of eating lionfish tacos in the Caribbean, consuming an invasive species that was wrecking a reef preserve; if you've never experienced a similar pleasure,… Read the rest of the article: Climate change has created massive blooms of ecologically disruptive jellyfish, but luckily they're delicious

Gawker was bankrupted by Peter Thiel, who secretly backed Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against the network of news, entertainment and gossip sites in an act of petty revenge.

Ever find yourself coming home from an attack-dog training session in heavy armored shinguards and come across a snowy hill and muse, man, if only my shinguards were a leeeetle… Read the rest of the article: Sledlegs: shinguards that you can turn into toboggan sleds by dropping to your knees and shoving off

The American Legislative Exchange Council is a big-business-backed think tank whose funders run the gamut from oil companies to Tesla motors; they specialize in drafting insane, racist, voter-suppressing laws and… Read the rest of the article: Group behind voter ID, stand your ground, ag-gag, private prison, anti-muni-wifi, and killing Obamacare now planning rules for jailing pipeline protesters

A dozen Michigan cops from Grand Rapids broke into a family home and rushed an 11 year old black girl, pointing guns at her and cuffing her while her terrified… Read the rest of the article: 12 Michigan cops, looking for a 40-year-old white woman, draw guns on 11 year old black girl and put her in cuffs

In Terrorism before and after 9/11 – a more dangerous world? , researchers from the US Department of Defense and the RAND Corporation used data from the University of Maryland's… Read the rest of the article: Terrorism is way, way down, except in countries torn apart by civil war, often where the US has sent occupying troops

Someone is shopping a password-protected PDF of a forged lawsuit against Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to the DC press; the forgery attempts to trick journalists into thinking that Schumer… Read the rest of the article: Journalists receive forged lawsuit docs hoaxing a nonexistent sexual harassment suit against Chuck Schumer

Dana Lewis kickstarted the Open Artificial Pancreas System (previously) by trying to solve her own problems with monitoring her glucose levels, calculating insulin doses, and administering them around the clock… Read the rest of the article: How a maker with Type I diabetes led an open source project to create a free-as-in-code artificial pancreas

The US Department of Education's Inspector General has released a report saying that the DoE has stopped cancelling the debts of students who were defrauded by fake universities.

Roy Moore, who has been thoroughly endorsed by Donald Trump, said in 2011 that the US government would "solve many problems" by ridding itself of every Constitutional amendment after the… Read the rest of the article: Child molester Roy Moore said he wants to repeal all Constitutional amendments after the first ten, which would revive slavery and end votes for women and black people

Oliver Schmidt, the general manager of Volkswagen's Michigan environmental and engineering office, is going to jail for his role in Dieselgate, the company's criminal conspiracy to trick regulators about the… Read the rest of the article: German VW exec is going to US prison for seven years for his role in Dieselgate

The FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on killing Net Neutrality was flooded by anti-neutrality bots who submitted millions of comments under the names of fake people, dead people, and living… Read the rest of the article: A law-enforcement agency is trying to figure out who owns the bots that hacked the FCC's Net Neutrality comment period, but the FCC is obstructing justice

Public Knowledge's Harold Feld is one of the leading and most longstanding pro-Net Neutrality telcoms lawyers in America, and in a post, he analyzes Trump FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan… Read the rest of the article: Ajit Pai says the FTC is will guard against ISPs abusing a world without Net Neutrality, but the FTC had no authority to act in history's most prominent telcoms abuses

Trump FCC Chairman Ajit Pai — a former Verizon exec — says that we can count on ISPs to voluntarily refrain from abusing their natural monopolies to degrade service to… Read the rest of the article: 100 million Americans live in areas where every single ISP has admitted to violating net neutrality

A group of 21 of the internet's most esteemed pioneers have written an open letter to the FCC's Congressional overseers that critiques the agency's foolish, self-serving description of how the… Read the rest of the article: The scientists and innovators who invented the internet to the FCC: you really, really don't understand how the internet works

Fred Benenson (previously) just quit his job to make weird internet stuff, something he excels at: his latest is Pitch Deck, a kickstarted card game that uses a madlibs/Cards Against… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting Pitch Deck: a party game that challenges you to make great pitches for terrible startups

The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab (previously) is one of the most effective, most trustworthy expert groups when it comes to investigating the abuse of computers to effect surveillance and… Read the rest of the article: Security Planner: a peer-reviewed tool to help you figure out your personal digital security plan

All things being equal, a Democrat in a safe seat is likely to swing to the right, because doing so allows them to hoover up massive campaign contributions from rich… Read the rest of the article: Open primaries? Democratic establishment bars anyone who challenges an incumbent from using the party's Votebuilder database

It is routine for companies — and even individuals — to send emails with "beacons," transparent, tiny images that have to be fetched from a server. Through these beacons, companies… Read the rest of the article: Your inbox is full of spyware-riddled emails that are both potentially very harmful to you and also very easy to disable