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Published 30 August 2020

·  Kyle Rittenhouse, Kenosha, and the Sheepdog Mentality

·  Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement

·  In a Robot War, Kill the Humans

·  Facebook Banned Violent Militia Groups. We Still Found Plenty of Them on Its Platform.

·  The Coronavirus Immunity Riddle

·  U.S. Government Exposes North Korean Government ATM Cashout Hacking Campaign

·  Can AI Solve the Rare Earths Problem? Chinese and U.S. Researchers Think So

·  If Trump and Biden Agree There Shouldn’t Be a Nuclear Waste Site at Yucca Mountain, Can’t We All?

·  The Fight against Anti-Semitism Faces a New Enemy: QAnon

·  Russian-Backed Organizations Amplify QAnon Conspiracy Theories

·  Inside QAnon’s Bizarre Hollywood Invasion—and the Civil War Brewing Within Conspiracy-Land

·  Confessions of a Trump Troll

·  Defunding the Police Might Leave Americans More Surveilled and Less Secure

·  Why Hurricane Katrina Was Not a Natural Disaster

·  The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation

·  Young Britons Increasingly Lured by Far-Right, Says Report

·  Right-Wing Extremism and Islamic Extremism Spreads Online in Similar Ways, New Study Says

·  UN: Over 10,000 Islamic State Fighters Active in Iraq, Syria

·  Securing the United States from Online Disinformation—A Whole-of-Society Approach

·  Anatomy of a Photograph: Authoritarianism in America

·  Feds Warn Election Officials of Potentially Malicious “Typosquatting” Website

·  How Can We Plan for the Future in California?

·  Fox News Editor Thought Their Disastrous Seth Rich Story Would Be ‘Vindicated’

·  The Conspiracy Theory to Rule Them All

·  The Next Dangerous Front in ISIS’ Holy War

·  Coronavirus Crisis Spawned More Scams than any Other Event in the Last Decade

·  U.S. Says Maduro Is Blocking Americans from Leaving Venezuela

·  Trump Is Openly Pushing Russian Propaganda against Biden

·  The Kremlin’s Plot against Democracy

·  The Trump Campaign Accepted Russian Help to Win in 2016. Case Closed.

·  How Viruses Shape the World

·  Suffering in the Sahel: A Coup in Mali Is Unlikely to Make Matters Better

·  Homeland Security Testing Lab Wants to Hear about the Best Temperature Screening Tools in the Market

·  Trump Cabinet Officials Voted in 2018 White House Meeting to Separate Migrant Children, Say Officials

Kyle Rittenhouse, Kenosha, and the Sheepdog Mentality (Graeme Wood, The Atlantic)
Rittenhouse appears to live in a fantasy world where police and car dealerships are more endangered than unarmed Black men, and where he is a warrior.

Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement (Michael German, Brennan Center)
The government’s response to known connections of law enforcement officers to violent racist and militant groups has been strikingly insufficient.

In a Robot War, Kill the Humans (Zak Kallenborn, Defense One)
Even if advances in robotics mean fewer humans on the battlefield, the fight will increasingly focus on those that remain.

Facebook Banned Violent Militia Groups. We Still Found Plenty of Them on Its Platform. (Shirin Ghaffary, Vox)
The company removed at least four of these groups and pages after Recode flagged them for posts about shooting BLM protesters.

The Coronavirus Immunity Riddle (Dr. John Lee, Spectator)
Our bodies’ defenses work in ways we still don’t understand.

U.S. Government Exposes North Korean Government ATM Cashout Hacking Campaign (Shannon Vavra, Cyberscoop)
The U.S. government called out North Korea on Wednesday over a government-led hacking campaign that has been focused on stealing cash from ATMs around the world.
The operation, run out of the North Korean government’s Reconnaissance General Bureau — through a hacking group the U.S. government refers to as Hidden Cobra — poses a “significant threat to financial institutions,” the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and U.S. Treasury said in a joint release.

Can AI Solve the Rare Earths Problem? Chinese and U.S. Researchers Think So (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)
A research effort funded by China and the U.S. could speed up the discovery of new materials to use in electronics.