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The Latest Breaking News from Cory Doctorow

Is the internet getting worse — and what can we do about it?

Big Tech is giving us all a raw deal, a heavy hitting new book claims. Will Rogers-Coltman meets its author

Evening Standard

Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube

Nearly one in 10 of the fastest growing channels globally consist of mass-produced, surreal AI-generated videos

The Guardian - UK

Garmin Connect+ backlash – your emails, comments and opinions on Garmin's new premium subscription service

Garmin has its users talking, but we want to know what you think

TechRadar

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Cory Doctorow’s prescient novella about health insurance and murder: ‘They’re going to be afraid’

The parallels between the science fiction writer’s five-year-old story and present-day events are startling

The Guardian - US

‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year

The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’

The Guardian - AU

On a 17-hour train journey I glimpsed our future – and it was ugly

The climate crisis will cause dramatic, life-threatening events, but also a general, broad-brush worsening of everything

The Guardian - UK

Writers and Academics Applaud Brazil's Censorship in Open Letter

The worldwide erosion of support for free speech continues.

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'Enshittification' is coming for us all –even cameras – and this is where it starts...

A new time cap on what used to be a free feature? Cheap smart home cameras are starting to look like a scam!

Digital Camera World

‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?

For decades now, anyone who’s wanted to know everything about anything has asked Google. But is the platform losing its edge – and can we still trust it to tell us the truth?

The Guardian - UK

The Scourge of Self-Checkout

The technology promised to make shopping easier. It has done the opposite

The Walrus

How the porn bots took over Twitter

Twitter has long had a bot problem, but since moderation on the platform was gutted and paid users were given "prioritization" in replies, the landscape has changed.

WEKU

How did Netflix 'win the streaming wars' while being criticized for becoming 'unwatchable?' It could all be explained by the concept of 'platform decay'

Netflix has been simultaneously crowned the winner of the streaming wars and a target of criticism for having mediocre content.

Fortune

From Amazon to Facebook and Google, here's how platforms can 'decay'

If you feel like some important places on the internet have been getting worse, you're not alone. In fact, there has been a whole lot of action in the last 12 months.

WEKU

Earliest Mickey Mouse character to enter public domain

Current artists and creators will be able to make use of Mickey, but with major limits. It is only the more mischievous, rat-like, non-speaking boat captain in “Steamboat Willie” that has become public.

Chicago Sun-Times

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The Guardian - UK

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due; The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow; Him by Geoff Ryman; Audition by Pip Adam

The Independent UK

Mickey Mouse will soon belong to you and me — with some caveats

Mickey Mouse is about to belong to you and me

The National (Scotland)

Pat Kane: Matheson shows how technology should be enhancing not frazzling

THERE’S a human, all-too-human element to the Michael Matheson Apple iPad scandal...

The Guardian - UK

Exhausted Amazon staff fight back against retail giant at global UK summit

Meeting in Manchester is part of worldwide action – including Black Friday protests – over tax, market abuse and workers’ rights

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The Independent UK

Book Review: Novelist and blogger Cory Doctorow pens a manual for destroying Big Tech

“There is no fixing Big Tech,” Cory Doctorow, a novelist and public-interest technologist who gained online fame with the blog “Boing Boing,” writes in his new book “The Internet Con: How To Seize The Means of Computation,” a manifesto for people who want to destroy it."

The Guardian - UK

Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the ‘enshittification’ of the internet

There is a new word for the degradation of the internet, but it’s been happening for years. Why do we tolerate it?

The Guardian - UK

Why were the media hypnotised by Sam Bankman-Fried?

Credulous or ignorant interviewers made it easier for the disgraced crypto wunderkind to pull the wool

Financial Times

How to leave Twitter but keep your followers

Moving to a new social network should be like switching mobile provider or bank, but it’s not

The Guardian - UK

Chokepoint Capitalism review – art for sale

From publishing to music, a revelatory insight into the way corporations are cashing in on creativity

The Conversation

Cultural industries have been captured by billionaires – a new book considers what we can do about it

This book speaks to a disenchanted present.

Salon

Dems: "Break up Ticketmaster" over Swift

"How can Ticketmaster get away with it? Because they are the bullies of the music industry playground"

People

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