Android phones subsidized by the US government come with preinstalled adware and a back door for forcing installation of apps.

The adware is in a modified version of an essential system configuration app.

The back door is a surreptitious addition to a program whose stated purpose is to be a universal back door for firmware.

In other words, a program whose raison d'être is malicious has a secret secondary malicious purpose.

All this is in addition to the malware of Android itself.

*Scientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens.*

We all need advice on this. Global heating disaster will be worse, in many places, than military conquest and occupation has usually been.

Sports fans in the UK protested against face recognition at a match, and covered their faces.

The US militarily dominates Iraq, and its oil, from two large air bases. Iraq does not have a real airforce so it must obey.

This is challenged by the Shi'ite militias that Iran supports, and were the work of General Soleimani.

US citizens: call on the BLM not to strip polar bear habitat protections.