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Risks Digest 31.25

RISKS Forum mailing list archives Risks Digest 31.25 From: RISKS List Owner Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 12:56:26 PDT RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Friday 17 May 2019 Volume 31 : Issue 25 ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTE…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Holding the centre: on European parliamentary elections

On May 23, as the results of the Indian elections emerge, in Europe the worlds second largest democratic electoral process will get under way. More than 425 million voters are eligible to participate in elections that will take place over a four-day period to…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX postpones launch of its first Internet network satellites – Gulf Times

AFP/Washington SpaceX postponed a launch of 60 satellites into low-Earth orbit that was scheduled for Thursday night, possibly until next week, citing a need for software updates. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral was to be the first of …

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Hiroshima

UN chief worried ‘nuclear coffin’ is leaking into the Pacific

Radioactive waste from nuclear weapons tests could be seeping from its “concrete coffin” and leaking deadly atomic “sludge” into the Pacific Ocean. The United Nations Secretary-General recently admitted that he was “worried” about the waste escaping from a c…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Chinese Expansionism

Pacific defense pact renewal vital to the US amid rising tension with China

Ngerulmud, PalauTalk of the trade conflict between the United States and China has captured international headlines for the better part of the past two weeks. But it is in the Western Pacific, where China has been constructing military bases and wooing new al…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

SpaceX

Blue Origin and SpaceX get million-dollar NASA nod to test moon lander tech

Eleven aerospace companies will share more than $45 million in funds from NASA to design and test prototypes for the Artemis moon missions, the agency has announced. Among the established names like Northrop Grumman and Sierra Nevada are relative newcomers Sp…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Paris

How I.M. Pei Shaped a Change-Resistant Paris

PARIS—Here in France, I.M. Pei, who died this week, is best known for one thing: The glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum. When it opened in 1989, two centuries after the French Revolution, it was seen as a revolution of its own—and not necessa…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Palestine

Eurovision 2019: Last appeal from Gaza

Dear Madonna and Eurovision 2019 contestants, You have so far decided to ignore several requests to honour the Palestinian picket line. On May 9, Gaza cultural organisations and artists issued a strong call asking them to boycott the contest out of respect f…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Matteo Salvini

The Roman Legion Is Back

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it." - Julius Caesar During recent events in Verona and Rome, Matteo Salvini went back on the offensive. He stated that the League and the Five Star Movement would deliver on the pa…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Machine Learning

Jason Woolsey of Adobe Commerce Cloud: Making Mobile Shopping More Seamless is a $9 Billion Opportunity

Im smack dab in the middle of seven weeks of seven industry conferences. And yes Im still in Las Vegas. But this week I got the opportunity to check out Magento Imagine. This event serves as the eCommerce platforms annual user conference. This years Imagine…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Risks Digest 31.25

Holding the centre: on European parliamentary elections

SpaceX postpones launch of its first Internet network satellites – Gulf Times

UN chief worried ‘nuclear coffin’ is leaking into the Pacific

Pacific defense pact renewal vital to the US amid rising tension with China

Blue Origin and SpaceX get million-dollar NASA nod to test moon lander tech

How I.M. Pei Shaped a Change-Resistant Paris

Eurovision 2019: Last appeal from Gaza

The Roman Legion Is Back

Jason Woolsey of Adobe Commerce Cloud: Making Mobile Shopping More Seamless is a $9 Billion Opportunity

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