Our picksBogus terror report; global Boko Haram; new cyber threats, and more

Team Trump bypassed DHS analysts to produce bogus terror report (Spencer Ackerman, Daily Beast)
The Trump administration was clear: ‘An analysis conducted by DHS’ concluded that 73% of terrorists were ‘foreign-born.’ Except DHS analysts had nothing to do with the conclusion.

The new way your computer can be attacked (Bruce Schneier, The Atlantic)
Unprecedented computer-chip vulnerabilities exposed this month paint a grim picture of the future of cybersecurity.

Limited strikes on North Korea would be an unlimited disaster (Luke O’Brien, Foreign Policy)
There’s no clear upside — and plenty of potential downsides — to punching Pyongyang in the nose.

If we start deliberately cooling the Earth, we may not be able to stop (Angela Chen, The Verge)
Geoengineering isn’t a silver bullet

Diminished at home, durable Boko Haram may go global (Levi Maxey, Cipher Brief)
Terrorist group Boko Haram has lost most of the territory it claimed as a “caliphate” within Nigeria back in 2015. But group still strikes government officials, troops and civilians from its few remaining safe havens in the northeast of the country, and is positioning itself to take terrorism global.

Facebook’s fake war on fake news (Violet Blue, Engadget)
Zuck just gave your racist uncle a bigger platform to stand on.

What (if anything) do Facebook’s News Feed changes mean for fake news? (Laura Hazard Owen, Nieman Lab)
Facebook, as you certainly know by now, announced last week that it’s making changes to News Feed. Posts from friends and family are in; content from Pages (including publishers) is out. There are a lot of questions about what this means for publishers. There are also questions about what it means for the spread of fake news on the platform.

This hacking gang just updated the malware it uses against U.K. targets (Danny Palmer, ZDNet)
The National Cyber Security Centre issues a warning over updated Neuron malware attacks by the Turla hacking group.

Facebook admits what we all know: that social media can be bad for democracy (James Vincent, The Verge)
‘I wish I could guarantee that the positives are destined to outweigh the negatives.’

Cellular agriculture: The coming revolution in food production (C. S. Mattick, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
Cellular agriculture is a nascent technology that allows meat and other agricultural products to be cultured from cells in a bioreactor rather than harvested from livestock on a farm. It is an important, and perhaps revolutionary, technology that presents opportunities to improve animal welfare, enhance human health, and decrease the environmental footprint of meat production. At the same time, it is not without challenges.