privacy New bill would force websites to choose: ban VPNs or remove content Séamus Bellamy

cuba What it's like to use the Internet in Cuba Thom Dunn

indigenous peoples An Indigenous Mexican Telecom company just won an historic battle for the Internet Thom Dunn

Internet A 90-year-old man bought a print ad in the Wall Street Journal just to complain about AT&T Thom Dunn

censorship Internet Service Provider blocks social media after Trump's Twitter Ban, allegedly at request of customers Thom Dunn

web theory The market failed rural kids: poor rural broadband has created a "homework gap" Cory Doctorow

telcoms Cable industry attains the impossible: makes Americans hate it even more Cory Doctorow

net neutrality People don't care about "Net Neutrality": they care about "internet freedom" which is the same as "freedom" Cory Doctorow

security UPDATED: Ransomware creeps steal the entire St Louis library system Cory Doctorow

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

books The Tokyo Vice author digs into cryptocurrency's darkest chapters Roger Park

politics Trump's aid freeze is killing US-funded privacy tools like TOR Ellsworth Toohey

ai slop Grandma's roast turkey replaced by AI chaos: holiday cooking goes slop Jason Weisberger

weapons Portal to report use of U.S. weapons on civilians has vanished from the Internet Séamus Bellamy

Science Link rot study finds more than 1/3 websites from 2013 are gone Rob Beschizza

COVID-19 Think you can you spot COVID-19 misinformation? Check your knowledge with the COVID Competency Exam! Jennifer Sandlin

Boing Boing Gadgets Not all screen time needs to feel like a parenting fail — meet this calm Montessori-inspired option Boing Boing's Shop

Science Retro-futuristic blimp provides connectivity from the stratosphere Gail Sherman

computer history 10 PRINT "NOSTALGIA", 20 GOTO 10 – Wired reminisces about BASIC Yoy Luadha

kansas Kansas classifies homosexuality as adult content in extreme age verification law Natalie Dressed