Steve Blank says that Intel and AMD processors are vulnerable to malicious microcode updates, which could be sent by the NSA, by Intel, by Microsoft, or maybe by someone else.

When microcode can be changed, it counts as software installed in the computer. Then it needs to be free software.

Past Republican administrators of the EPA demand action to curb global heating.

Their time in office was before the fossil fuel companies cracked the whip and required Republicans to deny the facts.

The CFAA has been used to punish Bradley Manning twice for the same act.

A fracking company settled with a family sickened by contaminated water, imposing a lifetime gag on everyone in the family including the children.

The company now says that the gag order did not cover the children.

UK border thugs are accused of systematically accosting nonwhite persons at a London train station and ordering each to "show your papers".

The threats to citizens who asked what was going on is typical thug behavior.