terrorism
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Reports: Texas Bomber May Have Engineering Background, But Has Left Growing Forensic Trail
The sophistication of the package bombs that keep on detonating throughout the cities of Austin and San Antonio in Texas has authorities and experts concerned that the perpetrator is not an amateur, USA Today reported this week. But engineer or not, they are leaving a growing trail of evidence like an undetonated bomb left at…
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How To Watch Facebook, Google And Twitter Testify Before US Congress This Week
Three of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies will speak to three different congressional subcommittees on Wednesday and Thursday to finally get to the bottom of, well, a lot of issues. Top priority is to discuss Russia’s use of online ads and social media to influence the 2016 US election. Here’s how you can watch it…
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Here Are The First Concrete Numbers Showing How Rarely Twitter Takes Action On Abusive Behaviour Reports
Photo: Getty Twitter has struggled to rein in harassment on its platform for years, but in January, the company pledged to finally get serious about the problem. “We didn’t move fast enough last year; now we’re thinking about progress in days and hours not weeks and months,” Ed Ho, Twitter’s general manager of consumer product…
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DJI Mysteriously Turned Vast Swaths Of Iraq And Syria Into Drone No-Fly Zones
DJI, the world’s largest consumer drone manufacturer, has a problem. ISIS, the terrorist organisation, has been turning off-the-shelf drones into flying bombs and making headlines in the process. So what’s DJI doing about this? The company very quietly created no-fly zones over large parts of Iraq and Syria.