Boing Boing Gadgets Consumer Reports Labs is hiring 8 staffers: technologists, journalists and wonks Cory Doctorow
cable company fuckery Consumer Reports documents the deceptive cable industry practices used to hike real prices 24% over advertised ones Cory Doctorow
gadgets Look, it's just not that big of a deal that the iPhone is going to have a USB port Rob Beschizza
books Pulitzer prize winner Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, By America" is about consumption, exploitation and how money trickles up Elías Villoro
politics New York passed the nation's first right-to-repair law. Pleasing tech lobbyists, Governor Kathy Hochul hasn't signed it Rob Beschizza
spyware Lithuania tells consumers to throw away Chinese-made phones because they have baked-in censorship tools Mark Frauenfelder
donotpay Donotpay's endgame: a trade union for consumers to push back against abusive corporations Cory Doctorow
law Mississippi makes it a jailable offense to call plant-based or cultured-meat patties "burgers" Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Announcing: the tour for "How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems," Randall "XKCD" Munroe's next book Cory Doctorow
surveillance Empirical analysis of behavioral advertising finds that surveillance makes ads only 4% more profitable for media companies Cory Doctorow