EPA reconsidering biofuel targets after production goals are missed
Balance between refiners' interests and corn states' interests has been delicate.
Policy // Civilization & Discontents
How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request
Washington DC has made GitHub the authoritative digital source for DC laws.
Challenge to EPA’s fuel economy rollback can move ahead, court says
Challenge to former Administrator Scott Pruitt's "Final Determination" will be heard.
Newly elected Republican senator could be Google’s fiercest critic
There's growing appetite among Republicans for regulating big tech companies.
Study: Over 20 years, Silicon Valley workers’ median wage has fallen by 14%
Prof: "The returns to capital are significantly outpacing the returns to labor."
Amazon customers’ names and email addresses disclosed by website error
Company remains mum on key details, including where breach happened and for how long.
Sorry Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook isn’t a “positive force”
Facebook makes users depressed, and Facebook posts helped fuel ethnic cleansing.
In China, replacing coal and biomass stoves has saved lives
Particulate matter from solid fuels causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths.
You snooze, you lose: Insurers make the old adage literally true
Why insurers spy on sleep apnea sufferers via connected CPAP machines.
Silk Road’s alleged hitman, “redandwhite,” arrested in Vancouver
Ross Ulbricht told redandwhite that he wanted to put a "bounty" on a vendor's head.
The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really?
In our two-part series, Ars looks at what Snowden's disclosures have wrought politically and institutionally.
Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps
FCC-funded rural broadband currently requires download speed of just 10Mbps.
Ukraine detects new Pterodo backdoor malware, warns of Russian cyberattack
Revived Gamaredon threat group just part of wave of new attacks tied to Russia's FSB.
Ivanka Trump used personal email for official White House business
Donald Trump savaged Hillary Clinton for using a personal email account in 2016.
Russia’s Cozy Bear comes out of hiding with post-election spear-phishing blitz
Emails that seem eerily familiar masquerade as US State Department.
