Telecom lobbyists are spending hard to convince Senate Democrats not to confirm Gigi Sohn as FCC commissioner.

*Spanish prime minister’s phone "targeted with Pegasus spyware".*

NSO, the company that makes Pegasus, claims to make sure in some mysterious way that the software is used only against legitimate targets, but also claims that it doesn't verify who is actually targeted. I suspect that this is doubletalk. Perhaps by "legitimate targets" it means "targets actually chose by an authorized user."

* Even the few Republicans in Washington who opposed the worst excesses of Trumpism have been unwilling to fight attempts to subvert democracy at the state level.*

The Tories want to sell off more Britain's insufficient public housing.

They did this in the 80s and 90s, which created a big shortage, but apparently they're not satisfied yet.

Indian street sweepers, who usually come from very disprivileged castes, are tracked constantly using snoopwatches.