Very sad and shocking. His relatives spoke at one of the bitcoin conferences a few years ago

Man this story is so sad and creepy. It reminds me I've missed quite a few of the documentaries about Assange and just haven't kept up on the story.

Has he been writing anywhere online or doing podcasts or anything?

The crimes committed against Assange are not the death of journalism. They are the death of all civil rights -- aka totalitarianism. The only question is how long until all nation-states can treat every human on the planet as the West is now treating Assange. Assange, and many others like him, are the tip of the iceberg; the rest of humanity is the rest of the iceberg.

Those who enter government, in whatever role, simply lose their ability to distinguish right from wrong.

The Olympians won't allow Prometheus to go unpunished; they intend to bind him permanently.

Here is the leaked video because of which he was charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYTxuW2vmzk

For example, at 2:05, the Apache crew misidentifies a camera as an RPG:

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstrike#Attack_on_personnel