Apple is systematically undermining interoperability. At the hardware level, it does this via nonstandard plugs, buses and networks. At the software level, it does this by not letting the user have any data except within one app.

A virologist calls for interviewing the individual stall operators at the wild animal market in Wuhan. The goal is to find out which kinds of wild animals were traded in 2019.

China's appetite for minerals, wood and fish from the Pacific is having a big economic impact, and a big ecological impact too.

The US spied on its European allies via facilities in Denmark.

Denmark investigated this starting in 2015 based on information released by Edward Snowden. The results of the investigation have only now been published, but the Danish government seems to have been acting to prevent a repetition.

Calling for the US to adopt a more normal, less "special" relationship with Israel.

I think the US should remain committed to protecting Israel's survival, while at the same time pushing to end the occupation of the West Bank and the siege of Gaza.