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· What Happens Next? Gauging the Fallout from the Pandemic
· Why the Ransomware Crisis Suddenly Feels So Relentless
· A 20-Foot Sea Wall? Miami Faces the Hard Choices of Climate Change.
· All Together Now: The Most Trustworthy Covid-19 Model Is an Ensemble
· The FBI’s Decades-Long Fight against Industrial Espionage Hasn’t Really Worked
· Jihadists Massacre at Least 130 in Burkina Faso as West African Violence Surges
· F.B.I. Director Compares Danger of Ransomware to 9/11 Terror Threat
· 150 Days after Capitol Attack, More Than 465 Arrested as FBI Seeks Tips on Hundreds More: DOJ
· Hate Preachers Now a ‘Priority Threat’ amid Concerns over Return of Islamist Extremism
· Russian Hackers Pose New Cyberattack Threat: Report
What Happens Next? Gauging the Fallout from the Pandemic (Fraser Nelson, The Spectator)
Niall Ferguson envisages grungy, crime-ridden cities, the paralysis of social life and a more willing acceptance of China-style incursions on our liberty
Why the Ransomware Crisis Suddenly Feels So Relentless (Patrick Howell O’Neill, MIT Technology Review)
Attacks on major companies and critical infrastructure have panicked the US, but the roots of the problem go back years.
A 20-Foot Sea Wall? Miami Faces the Hard Choices of Climate Change. (Patricia Mazzei, Yahoo News)
Three years ago, not long after Hurricane Irma left parts of Miami underwater, the federal government embarked on a study to find a way to protect the vulnerable South Florida coast from deadly and destructive storm surge. Already, no one likes the answer.
All Together Now: The Most Trustworthy Covid-19 Model Is an Ensemble (Siobhan Roberts, MIT Technology Review)
Combining a multitude of predictions and projections, modeling teams hone the uncertainty.
The FBI’s Decades-Long Fight against Industrial Espionage Hasn’t Really Worked (Mara Hvistendahl, MIT Technology Review)
In the global economy, companies that steal trade secrets rarely face the consequences
Jihadists Massacre at Least 130 in Burkina Faso as West African Violence Surges (Benoit Faucon and Joe Parkinson, Wall Street Journal)
The jihadists came at night on motorcycles and surrounded a remote village on Burkina Faso’s eastern border with Niger. By the early hours of Saturday morning, over 130 civilians were confirmed dead by the government—the worst terrorist atrocity in the history of a country that has been plunged into extremist violence in recent years—prompting calls to intensify international counterterror efforts across West Africa. During the three-hour onslaught on Yagha village, the militants shot indiscriminately, torching homes and a market before lobbing explosives at civilians seeking refuge in gold-mining holes, according to government officials and nongovernmental organizations based in the region. No one has claimed the killings, but government officials say it was the work of Islamic State’s regional affiliate, the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, or ISGS, which has killed hundreds of civilians in recent months. (Cont.)
