happy mutants A new (slow) open source JPEG algorithm makes images 35% smaller and looks better than older compression systems Cory Doctorow
Business US border guards can't believe Nigerian man is a software engineer, google "questions to ask a software engineer" and give him a pop quiz Cory Doctorow
education Yale's college will no longer bear the name of a slaver, from now on, it's "Grace Murray Hopper" college Cory Doctorow
Business Russia's slot-machine bans let criminals buy machines on the cheap and reverse-engineer them Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Researchers discover hundreds of thousands of unsuspected, Star Wars-themed twitterbots hiding in plain sight Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Why are the data-formats in Star Wars such an awful mess? Because filmmakers make movies about filmmaking Cory Doctorow
happy mutants How much energy can dust-sized computers harvest from sun and motion, and how much work can they do with it? Cory Doctorow
science fiction Free audiobook of Car Wars, my self-driving car/crypto back-door apocalypse story Cory Doctorow
AI Google and Facebook's "fake news" ban is a welcome nail in the coffin of "software objectivity" Cory Doctorow
elections Clinton's data-driven "ground game" sucked in exactly the same way "targeted ads" suck, for the same reason Cory Doctorow
politics Edward Snowden to Trump campaign: "old laptops" could vet 800,000 emails in "minutes-to-hours" Cory Doctorow
