US citizens: call on senators to support HR 1, the bill to make elections honest.

If you sign, please spread the word!

YouTube's Copyright Strikes Have Become a Tool for Extortion.

Google is not committing the extortion, but it is responsible for operating a system that makes false accusations of copyright infringement both powerful and risk-free.

New digital surveillance pills monitor whether (and when) the patient takes them.

The pill monitor has no other sensors, so all it can detect is when pills were taken. That might be acceptable. However, sending that data to your doctor (or, someday, your insurance company) requires a portable phone, and you know what that implies.

Laith Kanaan Barghouti was blinded in one eye by an Israeli soldier's tear gas grenade. If that wasn't enough, he was about to get an operation to fix consequences that put his life in danger, so Israeli troops arrested him and stopped the operation from happening.

Being hit in the head with a tear gas grenade is not a freak accident. It happens when soldiers shoot the grenade at a person's head, rather than between people as official orders say.

10% of Bavarian voters have signed a petition requiring agricultural changes to protect bees.