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· Trump Wanted to Fire Missiles at Mexico. Now the G.O.P. Wants to Send Troops.
The Republican push to use military force in Mexico against drug cartels started in the Trump White House. He has plans to make the idea a reality in 2025.
· Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time
· UFO Research Is Only Harmed by Antigovernment Rhetoric
Conspiracy theories and, relatedly, antigovernment sentiment could prove toxic to any factual and scientific discussion of unidentified anomalous phenomena
· NSA Releases Guidance on Acceptance Testing for Supply Chain Risk Management (NSA)
Enterprise computing systems should be procured with a robust set of security capabilities that are tested before acceptance
· The Missing Piece in America’s Strategy for Techno-Economic Rivalry with China
Pooling market demand with like-minded partners to reduce dependence on China
· AI and the Future of Drone Warfare: Risks and Recommendations
The next phase of drone warfare is here
Trump Wanted to Fire Missiles at Mexico. Now the G.O.P. Wants to Send Troops. (Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, Charlie Savage and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times)
The first time Donald Trump talked privately about shooting missiles into Mexico to take out drug labs, as far as his former aides can recall, was in early 2020.
And the first time those comments became public was when his second defense secretary, Mark T. Esper, wrote in his memoir that Mr. Trump had raised it with him and asked if the United States could make it look as if some other country was responsible. Mr. Esper portrayed the idea as ludicrous.
Yet instead of condemning the idea, some Republicans publicly welcomed word that Mr. Trump had wanted to use military force against the drug cartels on Mexican soil — and without the consent of Mexico’s government. Mr. Trump’s notion of a military intervention south of the border has swiftly evolved from an Oval Office fantasy to something approaching Republican Party doctrine.
On the presidential campaign trail and on the G.O.P. debate stage in California last week, nearly every Republican candidate has been advocating versions of a plan to send U.S. Special Operations troops into Mexican territory to kill or capture drug cartel members and destroy their labs and distribution centers.
Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes (Aaron Sankin and Surya Mattu, Wired)
Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined up with reported crimes, an analysis by The Markup has found, adding new context to the debate over the efficacy of crime prediction software.
Geolitica, known as PredPol until a 2021 rebrand, produces software that ingests data from crime incident reports and produces daily predictions on where and when crimes are most likely to occur.
UFO Research Is Only Harmed by Antigovernment Rhetoric (Marek N. Posard and Caitlin McCulloch, Scientific American)
The increased transparency regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena(UAP, aka UFOs) —and any corresponding spotlight on UAPs—could take a dark turn if policymakers aren’t careful. (Cont.)
