A prisoner facing execution in Egypt reports on torture by crucifixion.

He was convicted along with around 500 other people, clearly a joke of a trial.

Some web advertisements play inaudible sounds to be picked up by proprietary malware running on other nearby computers so as to determine that they are nearby.

It is unlikely free software will do this, but malware introduced by an attack could do it.

I conclude that access to a microphone needs to be controlled like access to a camera. Applications should need special authorization to use the microphone.

Some parts of the US have set up funds to provide various small assistance to the homeless.

The trust funds established by the New Jersey law are good, but the stamp tax (as the colonists called it) is a regressive way to fund it. It would be better to tax the rich for this.

Some places go further and provide housing to all homeless people.

A prisoner facing execution in Egypt reports on torture by crucifiction.

He was convicted along with around 500 other people, clearly a joke of a trial.

Global heating means mosquitoes in November in New York City.