"Consent" for data collection is meaningless because it is impossible to express what actions the consent is for.

Recycling is regarded as a feminine trait, so some men reject recycling so that they will not be regarded as "effeminate".

Apple plans to lock out independent repair by designing MacBook hardware and software to brick the machine if anyone else replaces the screen.

Americans are still in prison, decades after being convicted of arson based on false theories of how fires spread inside a house. The falsity of those theories was recognized over 15 years ago.

An experiment to eliminate an isolated population of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae with a gene drive has succeeded. Should we eliminate that species of mosquito, together with the other few that carry most malaria?

I think we should do so. There are over 400 species of Anopheles mosquitos, so wiping out a few of them probably won't lead to big changes in ecosystems. Other mosquitos will replace them, and bats and birds will still have food.

Human activity is on track to wipe out a large fraction of all the species on Earth — not intentionally, only as a byproduct of causing global disaster. Instead of sparing a few species that really do hurt us, we should try to protect the hundreds of thousands of species we are likely to extinguish unthinkingly, by curbing our population and our greenhouse gas emissions.