Syria is suffering from food shortages, and has rationed give-aways of bread.

*Amnesty specializes in hard truths. No wonder Modi froze it out of India.*

What worries me is that the advance of tyranny in so many countries will dilute the strength of efforts to hold tyrants accountable, which are being weakened by disunity and by conversions to tyranny.

Android in the EU offers users a limited selection of default search engines, which got onto the list by bidding in an auction. As a result, DuckDuckGo did not make it into the list.

I have no way of seeing what search engines do appear. Is there any that we think does not track users?

If you know Jolie O'Dell, would you please tell her that when I phone her number I get "This number is no longer in service"? Please ask her to send me email to get back in touch.

The Interior Department stopped buying drones a year ago, for concern that China will spy through them. Now the US does not have enough drones for fighting wildfires.

There is danger that China will spy through Chinese-made drones, just as there is danger that companies and other government will spy through drones made elsewhere. But I don't think China will learn many important secrets from looking at wildfires.

The first step to making sure that a drone can't be used to spy (by some party other than its owner) is to make sure that the software in it is free, and is being checked by people for quality and honesty.