Congress has passed a bill to stop nondisclosure agreements from being used to block workers from testifying about sexual harassment.

Nondisclosure agreements magnify the power of the wealthy and powerful.

* As part of a calculated assault on democracy, QAnon steered far-right candidates toward secretary of state contests.*

A Michigan farm's beef is heavily contaminated with PFAS.

The article does not say whether any action will be taken against selling beef from that farm.

Biden has asked court to take Afghanistan's 7 billion dollars in assets deposited in the US, give half to humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, and half to relatives of victims of the September 2001 attacks.

This plan to provide aid to Afghans might be a good idea, if it avoids frittering away a substantial fraction on middlemen and if it gets into operation fast enough to save people from starvation. But I see no justification for giving half to the American victims of an attack carried out by a group of foreigners just because a few of its leaders were hiding in Afghanistan. It should all go to Afghans who need it.

A new operating system for surveillance cameras makes it easy to sell proprietary add-on modules for additional kinds of AI for identification and monitoring.

In theory, this changes nothing about what sorts of video surveillance people and companies can do. In practice, it makes enforcement (by law, or by social pressure) of any rules whatsoever more difficult.