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Korean Peace Talks

Nuclear weapons are spreading. This plutonium scientist is trying to stop that – CNET

This story is part of Road Trip 2019, profiles of the troublemakers and trailblazers who are designing our future. When you think of efforts to pare down the world's nuclear weapons stockpiles, maybe you imagine heads of state and uniformed generals sternly …

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Yellow Vests

French MPs are protesting police violence in Hong Kong. They should look closer to home

French president Emmanuel Macron and MPs of his party La République En Marche (LREM) are not usually prone to vocally opposing police violence. Otherwise, one assumes, they would have spoken out about the yellow vest protesters who have lost eyes and hands to…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

eSports

Celtic FC have signed a Call Of Duty esports team

Im going to open this story with the strangest disclaimer youll ever read on RPS: as a young man who grew up in the Glasgowy part of the country, I was a supporter of Glasgow Rangers. Generally, this wouldnt be a problem, but when youre dealing with the Old F…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Blockchain

Russia wants to boost transparency with blockchain – are you kidding me?

Russia, ruled by Vladimir Putins arguably authoritarian regime, wants to leverage blockchain technology to host Moscows administrative services and boost transparency. Essentially, the government is looking for a contractor to build an Ethereum-based system …

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Yemen Civil War

Yemen Press Reader 565: | Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 565 – Yemen War Mosaic 565

Eingebetteter Medieninhalt ... Schicksal afrikanischer Einwanderer Die zukünftige Struktur des Jemen Britische Geheimverhandlungen über den Jemen Bürgerkrieg in Aden: Sieg der Separatisten, wachsende Spaltung zwischen Saudis und Emiraten und mehr Aug 15, 20…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Machine Learning

Analysis: New Remcos RAT Arrives Via Phishing Email

By Aliakbar Zahravi (Malware Researcher) In July, we came across a phishing email purporting to be a new order notification, which contains a malicious attachment that leads to the remote access tool Remcos RAT (detected by Trend Micro as BKDR_SOCMER.SM). Th…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

How Versace got dragged into the Hong Kong protest row

A furore sprung up in China this weekend in response to a t-shirt sold by fashion house Versace, which appeared to suggest Hong Kong and Macau were independent nations. Both were formerly European colonies, which were returned to China in the 1990s and are …

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Scotland

Sir Lenny Henry and Adwoa Aboah call for more arts education in schools

Sir Lenny Henry and model Adwoa Aboah are among a group of artists and MPs calling for a greater focus on creative subjects in schools. A letter to education secretary Gavin Williamson hopes to reverse the drop in pupils taking up the arts by calling for a …

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Super Komachi

Nearly 600,000 advised to evacuate as storm makes landfall on Japan

Authorities warned the total rainfall in some areas could surpass 1,000 mm (39 inches) in 24 hours to Friday morning and advised some 584,100 people to evacuate as some rivers were verging dangerously close to flood stage. Krosa, a Khmer word for crane, was …

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Here’s How Artificial Intelligence Is Fueling Climate Change

The AI Apocalypse might kill humanity before any actual robot uprising Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images You can think of artificial intelligence (AI) in the same way you think about cloud computing, if you think about either of them t…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Nuclear weapons are spreading. This plutonium scientist is trying to stop that – CNET

French MPs are protesting police violence in Hong Kong. They should look closer to home

Celtic FC have signed a Call Of Duty esports team

Russia wants to boost transparency with blockchain – are you kidding me?

Yemen Press Reader 565: | Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 565 – Yemen War Mosaic 565

Analysis: New Remcos RAT Arrives Via Phishing Email

Sir Lenny Henry and Adwoa Aboah call for more arts education in schools

Nearly 600,000 advised to evacuate as storm makes landfall on Japan

Here’s How Artificial Intelligence Is Fueling Climate Change

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