facial recognition I tried to access my secret consumer data. Their facial recognition software told me to smile. Thom Dunn

data breach Zappos Data Breach consolation might be the most egregious one yet Thom Dunn

Business "Owning your data" will not save you from data capitalism Cory Doctorow

surveillance state Normalizing surveillance under the banner of helping lost pets Jason Weisberger

graphic novels Graphic novel adaptation of Thomas Piketty's "Capital & Ideology" Thom Dunn

AI Google's AI search summaries use 10x more energy than just doing a normal Google search Thom Dunn

conspiracy theories Man claims Walgreens' fridges are the gateway to the apocalypse (video) Mark Frauenfelder

conspirituality We need to talk about Marianne Williamson Jennifer Sandlin

politics The origins of student debt Elías Villoro

debt celing Can Biden issue a trillion-dollar platinum coin to instantly lift the debt ceiling? Mark Frauenfelder

msnbc Brian Williams airs the political ad Fox News would not Kevin Reome

surveillance Evan Greer's "Surveillance Capitalism" is the internet's new official protest song Thom Dunn

police Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow

Business Prasad's Law: there's always enough health spending to concentrate wealth, never enough to diffuse it Cory Doctorow

california California's housing bubble is spilling over into poor and exurban neighborhoods, creating waves of crises Cory Doctorow

health American health care's life-destroying "surprise bills" are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies Cory Doctorow

Games Gamers propose punishing Blizzard for its anti-Hong Kong partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests Cory Doctorow

china Taiwanese sympathizers are shipping helmets and gas-masks to Hong Kong Cory Doctorow

china Thousands of elderly Hong Kongers march in solidarity with young human rights activists Cory Doctorow

Business Chase customers have ONE MONTH left to opt out of binding arbitration Cory Doctorow