The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again
— Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-beginning-of-end-enshittification-make-tech-good-again
Better than the average Guardian piece on tech.
What, like it’s hard?
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great. Linux diary, chapter one: winging it. Regret level: none. https://www.theverge.com/tech/858910/linux-diary-gaming-desktop
If you care for your privacy and safety and don't want to deal with mega corp obsessed with AI, Linux desktop is the right choice for you.
'Fascism is a word that’s been used a great deal these last few years,' says the article pictured above (scanned in full here at the Internet Archive).
ICE dumps another unlawfully detained in-custody death notification on Friday evening
When Google locked AlphaFold 3 behind commercial restrictions, three MIT PhD students rebuilt it in four months. Now Boltz has $28M, a Pfizer partnership, and a bet that open-source can capture drug discovery infrastructure.
When Google restricted AlphaFold 3's commercial use, three MIT PhD students rebuilt the protein folding model in four months. Their open-source version, Boltz-1, now has $28M in funding and a Pfizer partnership. The move highlights tensions between proprietary AI research and scientific openness in drug discovery infrastructure. #OpenScience #ProteinFolding #AIResearch https://www.implicator.ai/when-google-locked-the-door-three-mit-students-picked-the-lock/
Nobody wants a computer. They want what it does. Not the annoying machine. Including phones. I just got a new phone, a Fairphone 5. It’s a nice phone. And Fairphone officially supports the Google-f…
“If users notice your software, you’re already a loser – Pivot to AI”
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/10/if-users-notice-your-software-youre-already-a-loser/
> If you’re adding sparkly icon “now with AI!” features to your software, you’re in quarterly driven failure mode
Bob Weir, the singer-guitarist who co-founded the Grateful Dead and later found success with Dead & Company, has died at age 78.
Congratulations; Hell Week is over. In preparation for Hell Week Redux, whenever it may arrive (next week), this week's newsletter flips data visualization on its head, focusing on a fascinating project that extracts data from presentations that wouldn't seem to include any. Also, President Trump...
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