law The in-depth tale of Bylock, the Turkish messenger app whose 1×1 tracking GIF was the basis for tens of thousands of treason accusations Cory Doctorow

apple Apple's long-awaited podcast data-transparency reveals an ad-listening audience with no clear format-preferences Cory Doctorow

human rights A 1×1 tracking pixel was used as evidence of treason against 30,000 Turks, sent tens of thousands to jail Cory Doctorow

mobile South Korean law bans mobile crapware, network discrimination, deceptive native advertising, and anti-adblock Cory Doctorow

scholarship Anti-adblock is a lot more common than anyone thought, but it's not hard to defeat Cory Doctorow

rentiers Adblock Plus now selling ads Rob Beschizza

Business Yahoo blocks some users from accessing email until they turn off ad-blocking Cory Doctorow

NASA The tiny, secret art museum we sent to the moon — and how it got there Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction Sotheby's auctions artifacts from Lynch's Dune and other SF oddities Rob Beschizza

politics South Korea impeaches acting president, days after the last one Rob Beschizza

politics Musk's "neutral" Twitter runs page-wide Trump ads Grant St. Clair

google Google "purges" uBlock Origin from Chrome Web Store Rob Beschizza

youtube News from the AdBlock v. YouTube warfront Natalie Dressed

nyc NYC's "Lost Valuables Search" lets you dig through raw garbage Yoy Luadha

quilt Martinis helped fuel this psychedelic lava lamp quilt design Rusty Blazenhoff

serious business Enshittification is coming for everything Rob Beschizza

Get on top of all your work in the new year with Microsoft Project, now $29.99 Boing Boing's Shop

youtube YouTube accused of refusing to remove scam ads featuring deepfaked Elon Musk: "We found that the ad doesn't go against Google's policies" Rob Beschizza

youtube Site tracks whether uBlock Origin currently bypasses YouTube's anti-adblocking shenanigans Rob Beschizza

video games Microsoft's Activision merger approved by EU authorities Grant St. Clair