Teenager Zach Anderson, who was sentenced to 25 years of public scorn for having sex with a girl who said she was 17 years old, will have a new trial.

The judge in the first trial condemned Anderson for participating in a general sexual culture that the judge detests. I have my doubts about the wisdom of hook-up culture, but that's no reason for prohibiting it, let alone cracking down on individuals for participating in it.

Two UK teachers that had an affair in an office in the school where they taught have been banned from teaching, and the stated reason is only that a lot of people are expected to think that there was something wrong with that.

Apparently punishment need not be justified by an actual wrong. Prejudiced disapproval by others is considered sufficient reason.

Microsoft is nagging some users to install Windows 10.

Ghost gear — abandoned or lost fishing nets and traps — goes on catching fish, which die as a result. The losses are enormous.

Fishermen must be made responsible, one way or another, for the damage or cost imposed by their discarded or lost gear. Perhaps autonomous vehicles could be designed to collect it, and the cost borne by fishermen through taxes.

The Maldives government snooped on deposed president Nasheed's conversations with lawyers.

The Maldives government is hardly legitimate, but the UK government has done similar things, and I'd expect the US has too.

Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to house arrest for giving an interview.

Israel should let Vanunu go.