Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer by Peter P. Marra and Chris Santella Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos A tropical bird and a tabby cat, Herowana, Papua New Guinea, 1993 Dogs may claim the oxidized trademark of “man’s best friend,” but in this country pet cats outnumber dogs by as…

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Fragments of what appear to be U.S.-made bombs have been found at the scene of one of the most horrific civilian massacres of Saudi Arabia’s 18-month air campaign in Yemen. Aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition on Saturday bombed a community hall in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital city, where thousands of…

An Enigmatic Ex-con, His Improvised Religion, and the Georgia Town That Watched It Fall O n April 12, 2010, my friend and classmate Iasia Sweeting disappeared. The spring semester at DeKalb School of the Arts was drawing to a close, and as the last classes ended that day, a torrent of students…

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration went ahead with a $1.3 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia last year despite warnings from some officials that the United States could be implicated in war crimes for supporting a Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians,…

'Sellers' market' for IT security professionals, but more than two-thirds lack a clear career path in the field. One or more times per week, nearly half of cybersecurity professionals receive an email or a call from a recruiter or other party about a job opening, and a quarter of chief information…

Small number of users may have been impacted by malvertising, digital music service admits For the past several days, Spotify appears to have streamed more than just music to users of its free music service option. Several users posting on the digital music service’s community forum this week…

Shutterstock A large-scale survey of the freelance economy shows that the number of freelance workers is growing quickly, with the number of U.S. freelancers hitting 55 million this year, up from 53 million in 2014 and 53.7 million last year. Freelancers now make up 35% of U.S. workers and…

(Sam Hodgson/Reuters) Nearly 100 national health and medical groups — including the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — enjoy sponsorships by Coca-Cola Co. or PepsiCo, according to a new study by two Boston University…

There are about 25 court cases throughout the country that have a suspicious profile: All involve allegedly self-represented plaintiffs, yet they have similar snippets of legalese that suggest a common organization behind them. (A few others, having a slightly different profile, involve actual…

I t takes a moment to register what’s missing from the elephants of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique: Many of the females don’t have tusks. Usually, both male and female elephants sport two giant, ever-growing teeth that serve both as tools and weapons. But these tusks also make elephants…

Matthew Hodgson Contributor Matthew Hodgson is technical co-founder of Matrix.org , a not-for-profit open source project unifying Chat, VoIP and IoT technologies. Recently, Google launched a video calling tool (yes, another one). Google Hangouts has been sidelined to Enterprise, and Google Duo is…

W hen the engineers had at last finished their work, Eugenia Kuyda opened a console on her laptop and began to type. “Roman,” she wrote. “This is your digital monument.” It had been three months since Roman Mazurenko, Kuyda’s closest friend, had died. Kuyda had spent that time gathering up his old…

The more I do this work, researching and telling stories of injustice, the more I learn just how unjust this country truly is. Now, on a daily basis, hundreds of families from coast to coast write me in the hope that they can have the injustice they've experienced exposed. They've tried to fight…

Most days, Rauch sits cross-legged in the same spot on the prison yard, what’s known as “hippie row.” From there, he draws and paints, holding pencils not in use between his toes. With a wispy beard and dreadlocks, Rauch — pronounced “Roach” — has been described by prisoners as “Black Johnny Depp”…

How useful is Karl Marx—who died a hundred and thirty-three years ago—for understanding our world? Illustration by Roberto De Vicq De Cumptich On or about February 24, 1848, a twenty-three-page pamphlet was published in London. Modern industry, it proclaimed, had revolutionized the world. It…

An artist's impression of the planet Proxima b, orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, released by the European Southern Observatory on August 24, 2016 A rocky planet discovered in the "habitable" zone of the star nearest our Sun may be covered with oceans, researchers at France's CNRS…

Highest Share Since Q3 2009 Despite Improving Affordability in Some High-Priced Markets; Home Prices Rose Faster Than Wages in 89 Percent of Counties, Reversing Recent Trend; Closing Costs Highest in NYC, Lowest in St. Louis IRVINE, Calif. – Sept. 29, 2016 — ATTOM Data Solutions , the nation’s…

Crown Heights is now regarded as the last line of defence for ‘affordable Brooklyn’.Photograph: Tim Knox for the Guardian E steban Girón, an organiser with the Crown Heights Tenant Union , is sitting in a Dunkin Donuts on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn just before closing time. Employees mop the…

Valentine Strasser was once the world’s youngest dictator, ruling Sierra Leone for four turbulent years. But his fall from power left him broken, exiled, and eventually back home as a mysterious and feared recluse. BuzzFeed News makes an uninvited house call. The run-down mansion rising above the…

‘The F-35 fighter plane program is a prime candidate for big cuts. It’s the most expensive weapon ever designed, complete with massive cost overruns.’Photograph: Lockheed Martin/AAPIMAGE O ne year ago this week, I was sitting in a cramped hotel room with 15 other staffers in Las Vegas for Bernie…

Lorraine Chow Oct. 07, 2016 09:01AM EST Monsanto's history with a controversial and dangerous class of chemicals known as PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, has once again reared its ugly head. PCBs, a highly toxic chemical manufactured by Monsanto decades ago, is still found in our environment…

Considerable ink has been spilled over the results of the October 2 plebiscite on the peace accords between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Decided by the thinnest of margins, “no” prevailed by just under .3 percent, or 53,900 votes out of 13,066,025.…

VIENNA — Opium production in Afghanistan increased this year to one of the highest levels on record as efforts to eradicate the crop in a country that provides much of the world's heroin collapsed, the United Nations said Wednesday. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports…

Las Vegas Sands chief executive Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, attend the first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., on Sept. 26. (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images) Super PACs seeking to influence the 2016 elections have collected more than $1 billion, a record haul…

Image: iStockphoto/Pinkypills Machine learning and AI could be the key to protecting enterprise IT from advancing cybersecurity threats, Cylance CEO Stuart McClure said on Tuesday. According to McClure, who spoke at the 2016 Structure Security conference, he believes these technologies will "save…

U.S. CIA Women “My first son was my 1993 World Trade Center bombing baby,” says Gina Bennett, a veteran CIA analyst who has spent her career tracking down the perpetrators behind some of the worst international crises in recent memory. Bennett, a divorced mother of five, can match the birthdate of…

An investigator of the Cybercrime Intelligence Unit of Germany's Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) Federal Crime Office is pictured Reuters The Bundeswehr's (German Armed Forces) special cyber unit is believed to have conducted the nation's first known "offensive" cyber operation in 2015, when it hacked into…

Researchers devised two correlation attacks, dubbed DefecTor, to deanonymize Tor users using also data from observation of DNS traffic from Tor exit relays. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies dedicate an important commitment in the fight of illegal activities in the Dark Web where threat…

Vladimir Putin. Photographer: Mikhail KlimentyevTASS via Getty Images Photographer: Mikhail KlimentyevTASS via Getty Images The U.S. said publicly for the first time that intelligence agencies are “confident that the Russian government directed” the hacking of American political groups and leaked…

How have decades of mass media and technology changed us? A writer returns to his remote hometown — once isolated, now connected. And finds unexpected answers. “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them…

Sundrop farm: no fossil fuels required to grow 180,000 tomato plants Sundrop By Alice Klein Sunshine and seawater. That’s all a new, futuristic-looking greenhouse needs to produce 15,000 tonnes of tomatoes per year in the South Australian desert. It’s the first agricultural system of its kind in the…

Customers of private water companies routinely pay more, and under privatization the people of Atlantic City would lose democratic control of their water and rates, as the people of Flint did.Photograph: Michael Williamson/The Washington Post Atlantic City may be forced by New Jersey into an…

Bernie Sanders: ‘This campaign, what Trump is trying to do trying to win votes by dividing us up.’Photograph: Kelsey Kremer/AP Bernie Sanders blasted Donald Trump as a billionaire who exemplifies a “corrupt American political system” in the Vermont senator’s first visit to Michigan on the campaign…

Booz Allen Hamilton, the defense contracting giant whose employee was charged Wednesday in connection with the theft of hacking codes used by the National Security Agency, provides a fairly ironic service to the government: spotting rogue employees. The highly secretive contractor in 2014 launched a…