texas Frontier: if you don't buy your router, we'll charge you a rental fee; if you DO buy your router, we'll charge you a "support" fee Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole Frontier receives $283.4m/year in taxpayer money, neglects network, rips off customers — and Trump's FCC won't investigate Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Small business in Wisconsin cancels its unusably bad internet service from Frontier; Frontier demands $4,300 cancellation fee Cory Doctorow

infrastructure Minnesota AG's report reveals big telcos are literally letting their infrastructure rot Cory Doctorow

retrocomputing ZX Spectrum basic interpreter remade from scratch on the web Rob Beschizza

books Sci-Hub and Libgen descend from a Soviet tradition of smuggled science Ellsworth Toohey

electronic frontier foundation This website shows you exactly what sites know about you Séamus Bellamy

eff This Utah law is a risk to everyone's digital liberty Séamus Bellamy

Weird 1940s miner crafted dentures from toothbrush handles and coyote teeth Popkin

AI Study finds AI server farms creating their own local heat islands Jason Weisberger

privacy How a retired technician handed EFF the proof of NSA mass spying Ellsworth Toohey

Science Study finds infrasound the likely horror in hauntings Rob Beschizza

Technology EFF quits X as posts now get 3% of what tweets once got Ellsworth Toohey

gadgets NASA-styled retro wristwatch has a price tag fit for the shuttle program Rob Beschizza

fbi Kash Patel confirms FBI buys your data instead of getting a warrant Séamus Bellamy

Technology Zuckerberg predicted a billion users. Horizon Worlds never topped a few hundred thousand Ellsworth Toohey

bad news Elon Musk admits xAI "was not built right" as co-founders flee Jason Weisberger

politics Twelve "child safety" bills in Congress would end online anonymity Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Google has a free tool that scrubs your personal info from search Ellsworth Toohey

Science Chimps love crystals and won't give them back Ellsworth Toohey