scholarship Machine learning system can descramble pixelated/blurred redactions 83% of the time Cory Doctorow
snowden Redaction fail: U.S. government admits it went after Lavabit looking for Snowden Cory Doctorow
tech Federal Trade Commission sues Amazon: made $1bn by manipulating prices, abused monopoly power Rob Beschizza
Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons and Dragons is banned in state and federal prisons for bogus reasons Mark Frauenfelder
Business Judge blocks merger of publishing giants Penguin Random House and Simon & Shuster Rob Beschizza
CIA CIA blows off senators who ask it to stop illegally spying on Americans without a warrant Mark Frauenfelder
politics Names reported in Trump bribery-for-pardon scheme: Elliott Broidy, Abbe Lowell, Sanford Diller, Hugh L. Baras Xeni Jardin
twitter A federal judge wants to determine once and for all if Trump's tweets are legally binding Thom Dunn
Boing Boing Gadgets A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) Cory Doctorow