Proposed Canadian legislation to legalise operating watercraft "propelled exclusively by means of muscular power" has been canceled, after the Canadian Safe Boating Council convinced the legislation's author, Liberal MP Colin… Read the rest of the article: Canadian Parliament cancels plan to legalize drunk canoeing
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Cory Doctorow Utah state senator Todd Weiler (@goptodd, (801) 538-1035) made his nutjob-religious-grandstander bones by proposing preinstalled mandatory porn-filtering software on all mobile phones, has found a new calling: calling for the… Read the rest of the article: Alarmed by racy material in Cosmo, Utah state senator wants to revive state pornography czar
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Cory Doctorow Subaru's wireless keyless entry protocol uses a system of "rolling codes" that jump from one value to another in a way that is supposed to be impossible to predict without… Read the rest of the article: Defect in Subaru keyless entry system makes it trivial to sniff and clone your car-keys
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Cory Doctorow US CERT has privately circulated an advisory warning key stakeholders about the imminent publication of Key Reinstallation Attacks (KRACK), which exploit a heretofore unknown flaw in the WPA2 wifi security… Read the rest of the article: KRACK! Wifi's go-to security, WPA2, is fatally flawed, and will probably never be patched in many places
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Cory Doctorow Adafruit greeted the news that Trump Treasure Secretary Steve Mnuchin had cancelled the plan to make the great hero Harriet Tubman the first African-American and the first woman on US… Read the rest of the article: Why Adafruit thinks it's legal to stamp Harriet Tubman over Andrew Jackson on the US $20
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Cory Doctorow Though Puerto Rican law prohibits ownership and bearing of most long-guns and especially semiautomatic weapons, the streets of the stricken US colony now throng with mercenaries in tactical gear bearing… Read the rest of the article: Puerto Rico's streets crawl with heavily armed, masked mercenaries bearing no insignia or nametags
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Cory Doctorow Since the 1990s, North Korea has aggressively pursued development — and importation — of CNC mills, the ubiquitous makerspace staples that automatically machine complex forms out of blocks of metal,… Read the rest of the article: North Korea owes its nukes to the amazing, flexible CNC mill
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Cory Doctorow It's been nearly a decade since the first proof-of-concept demos showing that keys could be reproduced on 3D printers from distant, angled photos surfaced, and six years since the first… Read the rest of the article: A parametric model to 3D print housekeys from photos
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Cory Doctorow Landscape architects are increasingly in the business of designing spaces that are resistant to mass shootings, terrorists driving their cars into crowds and other forms of murderous, technology-assisted rampages.
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Cory Doctorow Trisha Weir writes, "In the wake of the massive fires in Northern California, one of the biggest problems was a lack of centralized infrastructure for information. A group of engineers… Read the rest of the article: Sonoma fires verified information clearinghouse: evacuations, shelters, donations and support
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Cory Doctorow Under US copyright law, creators who have signed away their copyrights for the "full duration of copyright" can still get their rights back from publishers under something called the "Termination… Read the rest of the article: New tool helps authors claim their copyrights back from publishers (even "perpetual assignments")
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Cory Doctorow The Arepa Lady started as a food-cart in Jackson Heights, Queens, owned by Maria Cano, whose son and daughter-in-law have continued the family business, moving into permanent digs, with seating… Read the rest of the article: Beloved local restauranteur can't sell coffee or tea because Starbucks strongarmed the landlord
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Cory Doctorow Weeks after Equifax announced its worst-in-world-history breach, the IRS awarded the company a $7.5 million no-bid contract to prevent fraud.
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Cory Doctorow Keith Calder has been looking around on Reddit and has found a string of messages from baffled, distressed women whose male romantic partners literally don't wipe their asses because touching… Read the rest of the article: Septic masculinity: when homophobia prevents men from literally wiping their own asses
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Cory Doctorow One of the highlights of this year's Defcon conference in Vegas was the Voting Machine Hacking Village, where security researchers tore apart the "secure" voting machines America trusts its democracy… Read the rest of the article: How do you dump the firmware from a "secure" voting machine? With a $15 open source hardware board
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Cory Doctorow Legendary hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang (previously) has an open-source hardware company called Chibitronics; anyone can make their own version of a Chibitronics product, because Bunnie is convinced that his… Read the rest of the article: Bitmarks: using blockchain and human-readable keys to protect indie hardware businesses from fraud
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Cory Doctorow Federalism is hard: to reassure small states that bigger ones won't clobber them and their interests, federalist agreements usually have some kind of non-proportional representation built into their articles, such… Read the rest of the article: Lessig wants to fix the electoral college
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Cory Doctorow OK, I know I said we were at peak funny-sock back in August, but can we make an exception for these $7.50 mermaid knee-socks?. (via Crazy Abalone)
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Cory Doctorow Protesters against ICE's campaign of mass deportations were treated to a bizarre public stunt by Portland, OR police, who put them in isolation hoods and sound-muffling ear-protectors reminiscent of the… Read the rest of the article: Portland police stage bizarre sensory deprivation stunt against ICE protesters
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Cory Doctorow Vegemite Blend 17 is a premium edition of the love-it-or-hate-it iconic Australian spread, packaged in a fancy box and sporting a fancy label, sold at more than twice the cost… Read the rest of the article: Vegemite releases an "achingly artisanal" premium version