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A Kargu rotary-wing attack drone loitering munition system manufactured by the STM defense company of Turkey. A U.N. report says the weapons system was used in Libya in March 2020.

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  • World

A Military Drone With A Mind Of Its Own Was Used In Combat, U.N. Says

Autonomous drones can fly themselves to a specific location, pick their own targets and kill without the assistance of a remote human operator. The U.N. says such a drone was in the air in March 2020.

June 01, 2021
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  • Joe Hernandez
Charlie, then 1 year old, bites Harry, 3, in the original 2007 YouTube video — which isn't going anywhere, it turns out.

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  • Pop Culture

'Charlie Bit Me' Will Remain On YouTube After NFT Auction Switcheroo

Ahead of the auction, the seller of the copy of the 2007 viral video said the original would leave YouTube so it could be "memorialized" on the blockchain. Now, the buyer wants the clip to stay up.

May 30, 2021
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  • Emma Bowman
Robins Air Force Base

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  • News

Robins Air Force Base To Lose JSTARS, Gain New Missions

The U.S. Air Force soon will replace its 30-year-old fleet of JSTARS aircraft based at Robins Air Force Base with modernized technology to meet today’s threats, the Air Force and members of Georgia’s congressional delegation announced Friday.

May 29, 2021
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  • Dave Williams
Microsoft says the same group that breached the software company SolarWinds seems to have launched another hack, this time using phishing attacks on a number of human rights agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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  • Investigations

What Microsoft Officials Know About Russia's Phishing Hack Targeting USAID

The Russian group that attacked SolarWinds focused on another government supplier in its latest hack: an email marketing company used by the U.S. Agency for International Development, Microsoft said.

May 28, 2021
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  • Dina Temple-Raston
Hackers used the U.S. Agency for International Development's email marketing account to send messages that looked legitimate — but links in the email exposed recipients to malicious software, Microsoft says.

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  • National Security

What We Know About The Apparent Russian Hack Exploiting A U.S. Aid Agency

Screenshots of the malicious email show that it purports to be a special alert from the government. "Donald Trump has published new documents on election fraud," the message declares.

May 28, 2021
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  • Bill Chappell,
  • Dina Temple-Raston,
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The Normandy, coolest ship in this part of space.

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Reading The Game: In 'Mass Effect,' The Story Starts With The Spaceship

The Mass Effect series is known almost as much for its storytelling as its actual gameplay — as the series is rereleased in an omnibus Legendary edition, we look at what makes it so literary.

May 28, 2021
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  • Jason Sheehan
Mark Prausnitz, Georgia Tech Regents' professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, holds a vaccine patch containing microneedles that dissolve into the skin.

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  • Health

A Vaccine Patch Could Someday Be An Ouchless Option

Scientists around the world are working on a way to inject vaccines painlessly. The trick is to make the needles so small. they don't interact with the nerve endings that signal pain.

May 27, 2021
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  • Joe Palca
<em>Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution,</em> by Carlo Rovelli

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  • Book Reviews

'Helgoland' Offers A New Way To Understand The World, And Our Place In It

Carlo Rovelli writes that quantum mechanics tells us reality is a net of interactions where there are no things, only relationships; nothing has properties until it interacts with something else.

May 27, 2021
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  • Adam Frank
Under a new directive, pipeline operators will be required to report cyberattacks to the U.S. government.

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  • National Security

In Wake Of Colonial Attack, Pipelines Now Must Report Cybersecurity Breaches

The action, the first of several planned steps by the federal government, follows the ransomware hack of the Colonial Pipeline.

May 27, 2021
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  • Brian Naylor
A gas pump is marked "out of service" as cars line up May 11 at a Circle K in Charlotte, N.C., following a ransomware attack that shut down Colonial Pipeline.

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  • National Security

Pipeline Companies Will Have To Report Cyberattacks To The Government

Pipeline and other key infrastructure companies aren't currently required to report ransomware attacks, so "we don't really understand how bad the problem is," says a former cybersecurity official.

May 26, 2021
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  • Avie Schneider
The European Commission is asking Facebook, Twitter, Google and others to share more details about what their platforms are doing to curb disinformation.

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  • Technology

Europe Wants Social Media Giants To Do More To Stop Disinformation

The executive branch of the European Union is asking Facebook, Google, Twitter and others to provide details on how they are responding to disinformation on their platforms.

May 26, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, seen here in 2019, announced Tuesday that Washington is suing Amazon for alleged antitrust violations.

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  • Business

D.C. Sues Amazon, Accusing It Of Inflating Prices And Abusing Its Monopoly

Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine takes issue with Amazon's policies for third-party sellers that prevent them from selling products for lower prices elsewhere.

May 25, 2021
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
The Clubhouse logo is seen on an iPhone screen in this photo illustration. A Clubhouse room has become a place where Palestinians and Israelis speak openly about the conflict in Gaza.

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  • Middle East

Clubhouse Becomes An Emotional Meeting Place For Israelis And Palestinians

They are speaking openly on the audio social app about the latest conflict in the region. "You actually hear someone's voice quiver or the emotions of what they are going through," one listener says.

May 24, 2021
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By:
  • Matt Adams
Members of the Workers Assembly Against Racism gather across from an Amazon-owned Whole Foods in New York City as part of a nationwide solidarity event with Amazon workers seeking to unionize in Bessemer, Ala., on Feb. 20.

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  • Politics

What The Rise Of Amazon Has To Do With The Rise Of Trump

The new book Fulfillment, by Alec MacGillis, looks at America's economic history — as well as its future — through the lens of Amazon.

May 24, 2021
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By:
  • Danielle Kurtzleben

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  • Author Interviews

In David Yoon's New Novel, Resetting The Internet To 'Version Zero'

David Yoon draws on his own experience working in tech for his new novel, about a disillusioned data whiz who decides to, literally, reboot the internet — with some catastrophic consequences.

May 22, 2021
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  • Scott Simon
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