Egypt has sentenced Al Jazeera journalists to three years in prison, basically for the crime of reporting on the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Muslim Brotherhood's political positions violated human rights, of course, since it was Islamist. But that doesn't justify prohibiting it or declaring participation in it a crime.

Monitor drones are being used in construction to identify workers that are slower than other workers.

This is part of the "push yourself harder for less pay" economy.

Will increasing gun violence motivate Americans to overcome the power of the NRA?

China now attacks the Chinese developers of software for circumventing Chinese censorship, and seems to have pressured Github to delete them and others.

Did Github give way to that pressure? The article does not say.

Some software on Github is free, but most of it is not properly licensed and thus not free.

United's WiFi service blocks many news sites.

I never sign up for United's in-flight wifi because it would require me to run nonfree software (Javascript in the page) and to pay in a way that would identify me.