Too many young and healthy migrant workers die in Qatar, and the government has ignored calls to investigate why.

*Populations of migratory freshwater fish have plummeted by 76% since 1970, and large fish — those weighing more than 30kg — have been all but wiped out in most rivers.*

Australia reached a compromise with Facebook about the requirement to pay news publishers.

The situation is too complex for me to have any idea what the results will be. I can't tell whether this deal will permit Facebook to get away with paying news publishers little or nothing. I wish someone would tell me which side won in the confrontation.

What I am sure of is that it isn't enough to make Facebook safe for society, whether in Australia, the US, or anywhere else.

A new AI program uses video to recognize people's emotions. Reportedly it helps teachers figure out what a student needs. But who gets that information? Since the program is, apparently, nonfree, nobody should trust it.

It is even less trustworthy given that it is developed in Hong Kong. China will surely find a way to make it serve to catch potential or actual dissidents, and not only among students and teachers.

Ayanna Pressley proposes a federal program to provide work doing jobs that benefit the public.

I support the plan, but in political terms I wonder how this resolution, which is not a bill and thus can't actually create the program, will help establish it.