Argentine author Pablo Katchadjian faces the threat of imprisonment for doing a Borgesian remix on a short story by Jorge Luis Borges.

I have not seen Katchadjian's story, and I don't remember "The Aleph", but "Pierre Menard: Author of Quixote" was great fun. It described a (fictional) activity which would be a literary hack, like this one. I think Borges had the spirit of a hacker.

It is now certain from Bill Cosby's formerly secret testimony that he gave women drugs to rape them.

Egypt is about to make it a crime to cite any unofficial source about fights with Islamists. In effect, all journalism will be reduced to parroting the state.

Covering the trials of alleged "terrorists" will also be a crime. Of course, these people are not necessarily real terrorists. They might be real dissidents. In Egypt, they may have done no more than be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Aside from being an injustice in its own right, it will mean that we hardly know anything about what is happening in Egypt's Islamist rebellion. We will get only the lies of a government that feels empowered to lie.

Kazakhstan's independent news site has been fined for libel for investigating corruption in the construction industry. This is likely to shut it down.

Danish cities are tracking people by the MAC addresses of their portable wifi devices.

I avoid such tracking by keeping my laptop's wifi off except when I actually want to use it — and changing the MAC address each time I use it in a different place.