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· The U.S. Literally Doesn’t Know How Many ISIS Fighters Have Escaped in Syria
· Bay Area Quake Caused Refineries to Flare; “What Happens If There’s a Big One?”
· The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools
· As Waters Rise, So Do Concerns for Sports Teams along Coast
· Mississippi Audit: Agencies Not Complying with Cybersecurity Law
· China Has Begun to Shape and Manage the U.S., Not the Other Way Around
· Human Actors Are Changing the Spread of Disinformation
The U.S. Literally Doesn’t Know How Many ISIS Fighters Have Escaped in Syria (Katie Bo Williams, Defense One)
“We just have less eyes on the ground to know for sure what is happening,” said one senior defense official.
Bay Area Quake Caused Refineries to Flare; “What Happens If There’s a Big One?” (Mallory Moench and Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle)
Flaring is a safety procedure to burn off excess gas. At the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Martinez, flaring stopped at 6:30 a.m. Portions of the refinery shut down after the quake and things restarted early Tuesday.
The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools (Tom Simonite, Wired)
A growing number of districts are deploying cameras and software to prevent attacks. But the systems are also used to monitor students, and adult critics.
As Waters Rise, So Do Concerns for Sports Teams along Coast (Rick Maese, Washington Post)
One franchise’s challenge: Amid rising sea levels, build a stadium to last 100 years.
Mississippi Audit: Agencies Not Complying with Cybersecurity Law (Lukas Ropek, Governing)
A recent report from the state auditor’s office showed widespread noncompliance with routine cybersecurity protections. The gaps could open the state to unnecessary threats as hackers aggressively target government
China Has Begun to Shape and Manage the U.S., Not the Other Way Around (John Pomfert, Defense One)
U.S. policymakers long sought to export American values to China. The reverse is happening instead.
Human Actors Are Changing the Spread of Disinformation (Ina Field, Axios)
Disinformation campaigns used to consist of trolls and bots orchestrated and manipulated to produce a desired result. Increasingly, though, these campaigns are able to find willing human participants to amplify their messages and even generate new ones on their own.
