"Charleston killings leave US reckoning with race and guns amid 'broken peace'."

The major browser developers plan to support a replacement for obfuscated Javascript code: binary files.

Bytecode as a platform for distributing and running proprietary software does not make it any less of a wrong. The bytecode might offer the opportunity to facilitate statement of licenses and corresponding source code.

The [US] Government Is Putting a Pathogen-Research Lab in Tornado Alley.

Australia's strict new secrecy laws, covering everything relating to handling of refugees, forces the doctors that treat them to "choose between [not being jailed] and their patients".

South Carolina flies the confederate flag, symbol of racism and slavery. After the the murders of 9 blacks in a church by an apparent white supremacist, protesters demand the state stop this.

The people who favor showing that flag surly have an argument to show it is not about racism and slavery. I found those arguments unpersuasive when I heard them.