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Here’s what passes for funny in a room packed full of weapons-industry executives and lobbyists: When Vice Adm. Joseph Rixey — the man in charge of the Pentagon agency that administers foreign arms sales — said “I know you don’t go after human rights violators for potential customers.” The line…

Late yesterday afternoon the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a three-page executive summary (four, if we count the splendid cover photo) of its two-year inquiry into Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency (NSA) disclosures. On first reading, I described it as an “…

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Mike Segar / Reuters "Every time I see it, that number blows my mind.” Erik Hurst, an economist at the University of Chicago, was delivering a speech at the Booth School of Business this June about the rise in leisure among young men who didn’t go to college. He told students that one “staggering”…

An 81mm white phosphorus mortar round bursts on impact during a live-fire exercise involving elements of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division. (Spc. Barbara Ospina/1st Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs) Saudi Arabia appears to be using U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in its war in…

Enlarge Cornell University Geothermal energy—energy drawn from the internal heat of the Earth—has long been the purview of mountainous, volcano- and earthquake-prone regions like the western United States or Iceland. The US’ eastern states, on the other hand, have been generally disregarded as…

Preshared keys White offered a quick list of VPNs that have preshared keys posted online : GoldenFrog, GFwVPN, VPNReactor, UnblockVPN, IBVPN, Astril, PureVPN, PrivateInternetAccess, TorGuard, IPVanish, NordicVPN, and EarthVPN. “If I know the preshared key for your VPN and I am somebody who has…

Update 9/19/2016 - 12:19PM - This story, and the allegations that HP intentionally hamstrings remanufactured cartridges, has been confirmed. In fact, HP makes no bones about it as well. The company admits this and cites specific reasons for doing so. You can read more about the situation here . If…

See-ming Lee The New York City Police Department takes in millions of dollars in cash each year as evidence, often keeping the money through a procedure called civil forfeiture. But as New York City lawmakers pressed for greater transparency into how much was being seized and from whom, a department…

The streaming service is spending $6 billion a year on content, choking basic cable and brusquely rattling the relationship business of the town as fears of a Google- or Apple-sized dominance send a chill down the entertainment industry's spine. Not many months ago, an original series landed on…

In our series, Better Teachers , we’ll explore how to improve teacher education in Australia. We’ll look at what the evidence says on a range of themes including how to raise the status of the profession and measure and improve teacher quality. In health there are well-established protocols that…

Firas Durri Sep 18, 2016 At this point, chronic UX problems seem endemic to iTunes, in which case the solution will appear when the product achieves end-of-life. I was trying to use the iPhone Music app, and it kept popping up dialogs prompting me to sign into iTunes. I understand why they want you…

Almost everyone enjoys a bank holiday. A three-day weekend means more time to spend with family and friends, to go out and explore the world and to relax from the pressures of working life. Imagine if, rather than a few times a year, we had a three-day weekend every week. This isn’t just a nice…

HITB Florian Lukavsky hacks criminals profiting from out-of-control multi-billion dollar CEO wire transfer scams ... and they hate him for it. The director of SEC Consult's Singapore office has made a name striking back at so-called "whaling" scammers by sending malicious Word documents that breach…

Jacob Ajit Sep 14, 2016 We’ll see how long this survives after this post, of course… Important edit : I wanted to clarify that I have reached out to TMobile and am awaiting a response. However, I made a decision to go ahead and publish this in the meantime since this unintentional flaw does not pose…

Direct from the mind of the guy who bought you the "I will kill you" presentation at DEF CON 23, is another mind bending, entertaining talk. This time it’s bigger and badder than before. Are you sick and tired of your government? Can’t wait another 4 years for an election? Or do you want to be like…

I quit my job, bought an army truck, and spent 19 months circumnavigating Africa

Punk is resistance. During the 1980s and ’90s, the subculture was resistance of a special kind: heavy on fashion and light on politics. Punk generated eccentric hairstyles, tattoos, boots and leather outfits, drug habits, and hard-core music that oozed being against stuff. Yet fashion trumped direct…

Presidential debates are more often lost than won. The gaffe decides the outcome. Credit Illustration by Christian Northeast This election’s first Presidential debate will be held on September 26th, the anniversary of the first televised Presidential debate, between Richard M. Nixon and John F.…

A boy walks through ruins of a school and bowling club hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Sana’a.Photograph: Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images More than one-third of all Saudi-led air raids on Yemen have hit civilian sites, such as school buildings, hospitals, markets, mosques and economic…

In 1980s Afghanistan, two world powers converged on each other, obliterating the national borders that stood in their way. The first was the Soviet state, bent on defending the precarious gains of a 1978 Communist coup d’état that it had actively tried to prevent. The second, caught in an even more…

School lunch can be intensely lonely when you don't have anyone to sit with. A new app aims to help change that. Tetra Images/Getty Images You're at a cafeteria, you've got your lunch ... and then you just don't know where to sit. You don't want to sit alone, but you also don't know who would be…

What You Should Know Genetically Engineered Salmon Updated: September 1, 2016 A short guide to the first laboratory-created animal approved for human consumption. Why is this a big deal? On November 19, 2015, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) became the first government agency in the world to…

Global map of active Internet sub-networks for the year 2012, where each yellow dot represents the sub-network’s location. The areas with the highest Internet penetration are North America, Europe, and parts of Asia. (Courtesy of Nils B. Weidmann) When the Arab Spring spread across the Middle East…

The starship Enterprise in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, The Hunted. Season 3, episode 11. Original air date, January 8, 1990. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) Ethan Siegel Sep 15, 2016 How our dream of exploring the stars might actually someday come true. “We are what we are, and we’re…

Credit: MONTY RAKUSEN Getty Images Since 2014 a small group of environmentalists has been using satellites to track fishing vessels across the world’s oceans, alerting authorities when boats appear to violate protected marine areas. Now these watchdogs are opening their system to the public with an…

When the world's longest lightning bolt struck over Oklahoma in 2007, it traveled about three-quarters of the length of the state, according to the World Meteorological Organization, which recently announced the electrifying new record. The lightning bolt traveled 199.5 miles (321 kilometers) on…

September 16, 2016 We often think of space as something that happens Way Out There, but our planet is in and of the cosmos—and vice versa. The Moon, for one, was once a part of the rock we call home, and chunks of interstellar metal stud the globe. Now scientists in Argentina may have found one of…

When the publishing house Alfaguara sent me the exhaustive itinerary of the book tour for their annual novel prize, I was sorry I wouldn’t have more time to spend in each place. But then I thought, isn’t that the point? Aren’t I going to experience, without even planning it, the very essence of…

Spectacular discovery of drawings by Frans Post September 8 2016 - 9:00 AM In the Noord-Hollands Archief, Haarlem, thirty-four completely unknown drawings by Frans Post (1612-1680) have been discovered. The 17th-century artist from Haarlem—who worked in Brazil between 1637 and 1644 in the entourage…

guardtime Black Lantern Solutions Industries About Blog 13 Sep Galoisand Guardtime Federal Awarded $1.8M DARPA Contract to FormallyVerify Blockchain-Based Integrity Monitoring System by Martin Ruubel Galois and Guardtime Federal today announced they have jointly been awarded a $1.8 million contract…

Installation view of A Sixty-Two-Year Photo-Biography of Ye Jinglu , discovered by Tong Bingxue, 1907–68. The art world likes to ask big art-centric questions like “Can art change the world?” We usually answer “Yes.” I usually disagree. Art can’t stop famine in sub-Saharan Africa or eradicate Zika.…

C atherine Townsend-Lyon, 53, started gambling excessively when she was 30. As a result, her 40 th birthday wasn’t much of a celebration: She was hospitalized, shortly after a suicide attempt. She’d tried to slit her wrists the day she’d missed her best friend’s funeral, after stealing money from…

California Today Qualcomm, based in Sorrento Valley, is one of San Diego’s big employers. Credit Mike Blake/Reuters Good morning. Welcome to California Today, a morning update on the stories that matter to Californians (and anyone else interested in the state). Tell us about the issues that matter…

DISRUPTION may be the buzzword in boardrooms, but the most striking feature of business today is not the overturning of the established order. It is the entrenchment of a group of superstar companies at the heart of the global economy. Some of these are old firms, like GE, that have reinvented…

Hold on tight to that number. Photographer: Ken Tannenbaum/Getty Images/iStockphoto Photographer: Ken Tannenbaum/Getty Images/iStockphoto Federal law is supposed to protect the privacy of your Social Security number from government inquiries -- but apparently that doesn’t extend to a check on…

Calhoun inside Universe 25, his biggest, baddest mouse utopia. (Photo: Yoichi R. Okamoto/Public Domain ) On July 9th, 1968, eight white mice were placed into a strange box at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Maybe “box” isn’t the right word for it; the space was more like a…