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Unwelcome Refugees

France pledges more troops, as crisis deepens in sub-Saharan Africa

In Niger, the poorest country in the world, this is what war looks like. On Tuesday, Jan. 7, hundreds of men on motorbikes drove at a Niger military camp and launched a heavy mortar and rocket attack. The attackers were Islamic extremists. The battle lasted …

bubmagJanuary 14, 2020

Julian Assange

WATCH: Assange Caught On Camera Leaving UK Court in Prison Van after US Extradition Hearing

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been filmed leaving Westminster Magistrates’ Court in a police van after a brief preliminary hearing on Monday, part of his bid to prevent his extradition to the US to face espionage charges. The 48-year-old Australian – …

bubmagJanuary 14, 2020

Global Warming

Connector fungi offer new clues to fate of nitrogen in warming tundra

Like a long-distance food delivery app with no apparent highway, fungi that associate with shallow-rooted shrubs in the tundra are accessing deep stores of nitrogen being released by thawing permafrost. The findings by Northern Arizona University researchers,…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Barack Obama

In tight race, new polls show Biden on top in Iowa, New Hampshire

By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two opinion polls from the states holding the first presidential nominating contests brought good news on Monday for former Vice President Joe Biden in his bid to be the 2020 Democratic nominee. Surveys of voters in …

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

NSA

Congress has to figure out whether Trump’s four embassy claim is real

Carrie Cordero is a CNN legal and national security analyst. She is the Robert M. Gates senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinions on CNN. (CNN)The ta…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Astroturfing

Facebook Caught Astroturfing in Teen Vogue

Submission + - Facebook Caught Astroturfing in Teen Vogue (businessinsider.com) Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 13, 2020 @05:41PM An anonymous reader writes: Teen Vogue published “How Facebook Is Helping Ensure the Integrity of the 2020 Election.” It’s a 2,000-plus-word story comprising a series of interviews with various senior…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

NSA

Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday

Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft Corp. is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows. Those sources say Microsoft has quietly shipped a patch for the bug to branches of the U.S. military…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

eSports

Overwatch League Commentators Are Jumping Ship

Watching professional Overwatch matches can be chaotic. At times, team fights look less like coherent, role-driven skirmishes and more like cartoon characters punching and kicking inside screen-eclipsing dust clouds. Commentators play a crucial role, making s…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Moravec‘s Paradox

Underwater robot autonomously gathers seabed samples

While underwater remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs) certainly are useful, manually controlling the things via a joystick-equipped console can be quite a painstaking task. That's why researchers have now enabled one to autonomously gather samples from the ocean…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Obamacare

Republican Health Care Reform: The Congressional Republicans’ Irrational Opposition to Medicaid

President Trump and almost all Congressional Republicans have consistently opposed Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid. Their opposition is irrational. It is also unpopular with voters. In dark red states like Nebraska, Idaho and Utah voters recently went over the heads of their Republican legislators and governors by approving referendums to expand…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

France pledges more troops, as crisis deepens in sub-Saharan Africa

WATCH: Assange Caught On Camera Leaving UK Court in Prison Van after US Extradition Hearing

Connector fungi offer new clues to fate of nitrogen in warming tundra

In tight race, new polls show Biden on top in Iowa, New Hampshire

Congress has to figure out whether Trump’s four embassy claim is real

Facebook Caught Astroturfing in Teen Vogue

Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday

Overwatch League Commentators Are Jumping Ship

Underwater robot autonomously gathers seabed samples

Republican Health Care Reform: The Congressional Republicans’ Irrational Opposition to Medicaid

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