Al-Hudood is the Middle East counterpart of The Onion.

A substantial group of people have rejected "smart" phones.

Alas, even a non-"smart" phone tracks the user's location — with the phone company and Big Brother, though not directly with other companies — and can be remotely converted into a listening device. That's why I refuse to carry any kind of portable phone.

If you own a car, watch out: it may contain a built-in cellular modem that makes it the equivalent of a "smart" phone. Nowadays it may even have a microphone to listen to conversations in the car. But you can probably disconnect it. Wrapping it in aluminum foil may be enough to make it cease to communicate.

US prison conditions are so cruel that a UK court refused to extradite a UK citizen to the US on that account.

Please do not use the word "hacking" to refer to what Lauri Love was accused of doing — that gives us "hackers" a bad name.

The bully's renewed global gag rule has undermined women's health care in many poor countries.

It is too late to fart around with half measures for protecting the climate; to save the ecosphere from global heating disaster we need to proceed with all due speed.