The Internet of Things — Who Wins, Who Loses?

Obama is trying once again to "close Guantanamo prison" by moving the prison somewhere else.

An Australian man, jailed for flying under a false name, has been put in inaccessible solitary confinement.

He should not be in jail at all. People should not have to give their names for domestic travel.

He seems to be an Islamist and has connections with groups accused of having connections with PISSI. Those views are despicable, but

The Thor project is developing a patent-safe free software video codec.

It is disappointing that the project cites the term "open source" which avoids issues of freedom. But the code they release is free software, so the project's work will be a good contribution to freedom.

Most of the time, a large software project should be copylefted. However, this is one of the exceptions. We want nonfree programs to support this format.

The article says they ask people to "contribute their own 'intellectual property rights'" — which is gobbledygook.

I suppose they are asking for programmers to work on the code, and (as a separate matter) asking companies to provide patent licenses for the algorithms and techniques. They could say so, it would be clear and logical. Alas, they are committed to the incoherent concept of "intellectual property", which leads them to generalize about unrelated things to create a false appearance of unification.

Lenovo's BIOS reinstalls malware (with a back door) into Windows if it is no longer present (for instance, of the user has reinstalled a "clean" Windows).

Of course, a "clean" Windows installation is not really clean, since it contains Microsoft's spying, DRM, backdoors and censorship.

It appears Lenovo's method will not affect GNU/Linux.

The hired private prison guard company that handles "security" for imprisoned refugees that Nauru holds on Australia's behalf followed a visiting Australian Green senator who was investigating prison conditions. Now the Greens demand that company's contract not be renewed.

This situation is one injustice piled on another.