The NHS is wracked by shortages of nurses, and sometimes has to send emergency patients home because it can't care for them.

Fontcode is a scheme for hiding messages in documents presented as images (including PDF files).

It wouldn't be effective for steganography to get it past serious spies, but it threatens to be used for watermarking as part of the War on Sharing. In other words, it will give the powerful another arm for enforcing unjust power.

Indigenous people living near the Yukon river have increased their population and are catching so many salmon that the fish numbers are slowly dwindling.

"In the absence of political will to tackle America’s growing economic crisis, hi-tech tools can only serve to automate and amplify existing inequalities."

Most Americans don't have enough money for a decent life, and minor tweaks in public assistance can't make up for the giant cuts.

A considerable fraction of today's porn shows the act of choking a woman.

I can't imagine how being choked could be exciting. I don't think I could bring myself to do that to a woman even if she asked me to.