Business Chrome-derived browsers threaten to fork from Google, refuse to eliminate ad-blocker features Cory Doctorow

Copyfight How DRM has permitted Google to have an "open source" browser that is still under its exclusive control Cory Doctorow

Why garlic smell sticks to your hands — and how a spoon removes it Ellsworth Toohey

DIY The Flea-Scope is a $25 USB oscilloscope Ellsworth Toohey

apps New browser aims to help you browse mindfully Gail Sherman

trump Kash Patel, Trump's pick for FBI Director, has a long history of conspiracy grifting Jennifer Sandlin

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

animals Cat falls into vat of deadly chemicals, puts Japanese city on high alert Mark Frauenfelder

Games Google reportedly cans plans to make "gaming" Chromebooks with Nvidia GPUs Rob Beschizza

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surviellance Most browsers — except Firefox and Brave — are eliminating the option to turn off surveilling "hyperlink auditing" Cory Doctorow

Copyfight After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations Cory Doctorow

politics Shutdown: Dot-gov websites vulnerable to cyberattacks, certificates expiring amid funding pause Xeni Jardin

Copyfight Google DRM for Email can be disabled by ticking a few boxes in Firefox Cory Doctorow

websites Turn web articles into readable, printable PDFs Rob Beschizza

security Ars Technica's Dan Goodin is being sued by Keeper Security over an article about a defect in its password manager Cory Doctorow

security Cheating Chinese certificate authorities, caught by Certificate Transparency, will get the death penalty Cory Doctorow