Many public agencies are resisting lawful public records requests by suing those making the requests.

The Pirate Bay is making visitors run a bitcoin mining program snuck in with Javascript.

This is not as bad as snooping on users, which is common on the internet, but it is still wrong.

I wouldn't run any nonfree Javascript code from this site, or from any site. But if you are willing to run other Javascript code but just not this code, I expect you could use LibreJS to disable the mining program and enable the rest.

The British navy is adopting voice control for computers.

I hope they are not going to privatize this and let a foreign company track what the crew ask the computer on ships. But that is not the only risk here.

Some decades ago I saw a movie in which there was a naval standoff between a US ship and a Soviet ship. The US captain told someone else on the bridge (a journalist?), "If they fire one, we'll fire one". A bridge crewman heard the last two words, took them for an order ("Fire one!"), and fired a missile, thus starting a war.

Soon a computer could really do this.

Israeli soldiers shot and killed Raed al-Salhi without even trying to arrest him, let alone charging him with a crime.

Egyptian human rights lawyer Tarek Hussein was disappeared by Egyptian police and charged with absurd "crimes".

He was not tortured, but says he heard the sounds of torturing other prisoners.