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
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
religion LA's teachers are ready to strike on Tuesday, rejecting privatization of public education Cory Doctorow
a fox for every henhouse Top FTC official is so such a corporate shill that he has conflicts of interest for 100 companies, including Equifax and Facebook Cory Doctorow