Issa Amro in 2015. Photo by Eli Ungar-Sargon On Sunday, Issa Amro, a Palestinian human rights activist, will appear in the Israeli military court at Ofer to defend himself against 18 charges that could result in one to three years in prison. At 36, Amro is already internationally renowned as the…

Adolf Hitler awards the Merit Knight Cross to his private doctor, Theodor Morell, in February 1944.Photograph: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images T he German writer Norman Ohler lives on the top floor of a 19th-century apartment building on the south bank of the river Spree in…

An LED fixture, bottom, is displayed next to an older streetlight, top, in Las Vegas, Nev. on Aug. 3, 2011. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) If people are sleepless in Seattle, it may not be only because they have broken hearts. The American Medical Association issued a warning in June that…

Failures from the opsec-only-works-if-you-do-it-100%-of-the-time dept More information is surfacing on the source of the NSA's hacking tools discovered and published by the Shadow Brokers. Just as Ed Snowden pointed out shortly after the tools first appeared online, the problem with sticking a stash…

Looking inside the Eureka machine. (Photo: © Alfred Gillett Trust) In July 1845, British curiosity-seekers headed to London’s Egyptian Hall to try out the novelty of the summer. For the price of one shilling, they could stand in front of a wooden bureau, pull a lever, and look behind a panel where…

The new proposals come from the ruling coalition of the Social Democrat and Green parties, and, if successfully enacted, would be accompanied by a publicity campaign to encourage Swedes to repair products instead of replacing them. “If we want to solve the problems of sustainability and the…

Last Updated | 10:56 p.m. Bowing to demands for greater transparency into the circumstances surrounding a fatal shooting that sparked protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, this week, the city’s police department on Saturday released video of the deadly encounter recorded by its officers. Kerr…

Feature Over eight years, President Barack Obama has created the most intrusive surveillance apparatus in the world. To what end? Illustrations by Raymond Biesinger September 7, 2016 This summer, at 1:51 p.m. on Saturday, June 11, an unearthly roar shattered the afternoon quiet along the Florida…

Center for American Progress Sep. 24, 2016 08:00AM EST By Erin Auel and Alison Cassady One of the most visible and immediate ways climate change has affected—and will continue to affect—Americans is through extreme weather exacerbated by rising global temperatures. Aerial image of flooding in New…

Nature is filled with beautifully mysterious sound. From the bow shock of a spacecraft slamming into Jupiter’s atmosphere to bat echolocation and underwater volcanoes , the wonders of science can be as aural as they are intellectual. But sometimes, scientific sound can be just plain sad, as Brian…

The Crisis in Flint Isn’t Over. It’s Everywhere By Ben Paynter Photographs by Dan Winters At his home near Kearsley Park, on the east side of Flint, Michigan, Tony Palladeno Jr. grabs his keys and a pair of 1-liter medical-grade plastic bottles—one full and one empty. He filled the first yesterday,…

Pop stars Calvin Harris and The Chainsmokers have questioned the future of the album - and a new study suggests they could have a point. Playlists are now a more popular way to listen to music than albums, according to the Music Business Association . It says playlists account for 31% of listening…

When Rosemary and Peter Grant first set foot on Daphne Major, a tiny island in the Galápagos archipelago, in 1973, they had no idea it would become a second home. The husband and wife team, now emeritus biology professors at Princeton University, were looking for a pristine environment in which to…

Whales are the biggest animals to ever have existed on Earth, and yet some subsist on creatures the size of a paper clip. It’s a relatively common factoid, but, in truth, how they do this is only just being uncovered, thanks to new technologies. Go to the web site to view the video. Video by Kurt…

This handout file photo taken on Aug. 27, 2003, and provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows Mars snapped within minutes of the planet's closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years. (Photo11: Handout, AFP/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — With a new president on the horizon, a key Senate…

A drinking fountain at Patrick Henry Downtown Academy is shut off on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, after testing high for lead. Bottled water is being brought into schools where lead levels have been found to be high, and for others that have inoperable fountains near cafeterias. Photo by Robert Cohen,…

Brian Krebs. Brian Krebs/@briankrebs The cloud-hosting giant Akamai Technologies has dumped the website run by journalist Brian Krebs from its servers after the site came under a "record" cyberattack. "It's looking likely that KrebsOnSecurity will be offline for a while," Krebs tweeted Thursday.…

OVER the past few weeks, many American retailers have worried that Christmas, their most profitable selling season, will be ruined. In late August, Hanjin Shipping, South Korea’s biggest container line and the world’s seventh-largest, filed for receivership. Some 66 of its ships, loaded with $14.5…

Chris DiIorio had just lost a million dollars. This was back in 2006. DiIorio, who was 39 at the time, had recently moved with his new wife from Boston to Castle Pines, Colorado, a leafy suburb of Denver, and was toiling in finance as a market researcher, analyzing the financial statements of public…

Law Enforcement, Courts Need to Better Understand IP Addresses, Stop Misuse If police raided a home based only on an anonymous phone call claiming residents broke the law, it would be clearly unconstitutional. Yet EFF has found that police and courts are regularly conducting and approving raids…

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It goes without saying that speaking out against police violence or government overreach shouldn’t land you in a surveillance database. But it can, and it does. The ACLU of California has received thousands of pages of public records revealing that law enforcement agencies across the state are…

In December 2014, the FBI received a tip from a foreign law enforcement agency that a Tor Hidden Service site called “Playpen” was hosting child pornography. That tip would ultimately lead to the largest known hacking operation in U.S. law enforcement history. The Playpen investigation—driven by the…

Whenever mega-hacks like the Yahoo ! fiasco hit the news, inevitably the question gets asked as to why the IT security systems weren't good enough. The answer could be that it's not in a company's financial interest to be secure. A study by the RAND Corporation, published in the Journal of…

Christopher Furlong/Getty In science, like many other professions, better-off individuals and those educated at elite institutions such as Eton College, UK, are often over-represented. Last year, Christina Quasney was close to giving up. A biochemistry major at the University of Maryland, Baltimore…

A fter Flor’s trial, we emerged from the courthouse and saw more than twenty people advancing up a dirt road: kids, old people, teenagers carrying babies. This was Flor’s extended family, her three daughters and two sons, her mother, nephews, siblings, and a grandson who had been born the previous…

Thirty minutes isn’t a long time, but it’s enough for Ray Dalio to explain “where we’ve been, where we are now, and where we’re probably headed” in the global economic cycle. Dalio is an American businessman and the founder of the Bridgewater Associates investment firm. He regularly features on…

A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos. Jon Mooallem This is a true story, and a very serious one, even though it’s composed of many details that will seem ludicrous and impossible. Most of those details are irrefutable, though. And while I worked hard to verify the rest, doing so…

Abstract: The Islamic State has devoted significant resources to implementing a distinct online recruitment strategy, which follows targets from their introduction to the organization’s message, through a careful pruning of their social networks, before culminating in a call to action. The strategy…

InfoArmor has identified a special tool used by cybercriminals to distribute malware by packaging it with the most popular torrent files on the Internet. The bad actors have analyzed trends on video, audio, software and other digital content downloads from around the globe and have created seeds on…

Something remarkable happened a few months ago . Bernard Barbier, the former head of signals intelligence ( SIGINT ) between 2006 and 2014 at France’s foreign intelligence agency ( DGSE ), gave a speech at one of France’s top engineering schools in which he reflected on his career and imparted some…

Soon, one of the most important cryptographic key pairs on the internet will be changed for the first time. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the US-based non-profit responsible for various internet infrastructure tasks, will change the key pair that creates the first…

Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, waits to give his speech against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday.Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters Archeologists and museum directors have denounced the “destruction” of Native American artifacts…

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday blocked a bipartisan initiative to suspend a $1.15 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia, clearing the way for a massive resupply of the Kingdom’s military as it continues its incursions into neighboring Yemen. The victory over lawmakers who were trying to stop the deal will…

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September 22, 2016 W hen compiling a list of who commands the most power in financial markets, some decisions are easier than others. Jamie Dimon is an obvious choice—he heads the world’s most valuable bank, after all. Same goes for Zhou Xiaochuan, because when you run the People’s Bank of China,…