Business Illinois almost passed a bill that banned devices that record you without your consent — and then Big Tech stepped in Cory Doctorow
law Cartoon Network "severs ties" with Rick and Morty co-creator over domestic violence case Rob Beschizza
psychology A new neuroscience book argues that our brains aren't computers — they're the internet Thom Dunn
covers A pay-what-you-want holiday music compilation raising money to save independent music venues Thom Dunn
News CCPA: California to enforce new digital privacy law starting today, despite calls for further pandemic delay Xeni Jardin
publishing Internet Archive ending free e-books program over publisher lawsuit, National Emergency Library to close for 2 weeks Xeni Jardin
politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow
eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz
AI "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow
Copyfight An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow
uk UK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for supporting secure DNS because it breaks UK internet censorship rules Cory Doctorow