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

Business Consumer Reports now evaluates products' security and privacy Cory Doctorow

Trump tariffs BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sounds alarm: "The economy is weakening as we speak" Carla Sinclair

Business Tesla under federal investigation, accused of knowingly misleading investors Rob Beschizza

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

culture jamming Fake Adidas "RealityWear" line highlights labor abuses Jennifer Sandlin

global logistics The shortcomings of the European food supply chain  Katherine Hreib

politics New York passed the nation's first right-to-repair law. Pleasing tech lobbyists, Governor Kathy Hochul hasn't signed it Rob Beschizza

gadgets EU passes law mandating USB-C Rob Beschizza

tv commercials Watch Mikhail Gorbachev star in a Pizza Hut commercial David Pescovitz

spyware Lithuania tells consumers to throw away Chinese-made phones because they have baked-in censorship tools Mark Frauenfelder

television The time Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a Pizza Hut commercial David Pescovitz

donotpay Donotpay's endgame: a trade union for consumers to push back against abusive corporations Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole Robert Bork is the architect of the inequality crisis Cory Doctorow

privacy Putting a price on our data won't make the platforms stop abusing our privacy Cory Doctorow

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