lawsuits The estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle filed a lawsuit against "Enola Holmes" for having emotions Thom Dunn

publishing Internet Archive ending free e-books program over publisher lawsuit, National Emergency Library to close for 2 weeks Xeni Jardin

politics Texas judge orders Alex Jones assets sold to pay Sandy Hook families Rob Beschizza

Business US Patent Office to small businesses: "LOL have fun getting extorted by patent trolls" Ellsworth Toohey

Business Tesla under federal investigation, accused of knowingly misleading investors Rob Beschizza

eff Donate to the EFF, get a warm fuzzy feeling and the satisfaction of helping smash stupid patents, legislation and lawsuits Rob Beschizza

Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow

patent trolls Makers of GNOME, the free desktop environment, sued by infamous patent troll Rob Beschizza

security Why haven't cyberinsurers exerted more pressure on companies to be better at security? Cory Doctorow

privacy Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle Cory Doctorow

Business America's most notorious patent troll, now bankrupt, values its bullshit patents at $1 Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Europe just voted to wreck the internet, spying on everything and censoring vast swathes of our communications Cory Doctorow

trumpism Court nukes Ontario's Trumpian government bid to gut Toronto city council Cory Doctorow

mistakes Mandalay Bay hotel owner sues more than 1000 victims of the Vegas gunman Rob Beschizza

Business When "reputation management" becomes perjury, forgery and fraud against America's federal courts Cory Doctorow

autism Pedagogy of the Depressed: my experiences as a special ed student in the 1990s. Boing Boing