The UK plans a policy to publish summaries of the "algorithms" used for making government decisions.

The article seems to equate "algorithm" to applications of machine learning. Properly speaking, those are not specific algorithms. Will the policy apply to algorithms in the proper sense, which don't involve any machine learning, and can be precisely described by their source code?

Either way, this is a small step forward. The state really ought to use free software for all its computing, for the sake of national security and accountability, and release the source code when there is no specific reason not to. For software that makes decisions about people, it should always release the source code -- which, when machine learning is used, also includes the trained neural net.

Nonetheless, it is an advance.

Secret Chinese government papers show that the repression of Uyghurs was ordered by President Xi himself.

Some students at Arizona State University demand that the university expel Kyle Rittenhouse from a class, and ban him from campus, to cater to their feelings.

The university must not grant any group of students the authority to order the expulsion or banning of other students. To do so would grant the first group arbitrary power.

With all the surveillance technology in place in the US, and all the laws passed for the war that's on drugs, finding and prosecuting everyone that assists friends or strangers in getting an abortion could be as easy as pie.

A mob of religious fanatics attacked a police station in Pakistan with the aim of kidnapping and lynching someone accused of blasphemy.