Laser Weapons: A Blueprint for Adding Them to the Force  Defense One

Directed energy weapons promise a new advantage — if the U.S. accelerates development of related technologies and doctrine.

DHS, NSA Renew Missouri S&T Cybersecurity Research Accreditation  Government Technology

The Missouri University of Science and Technology was originally given the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Research accreditation in 2015 for its …

America’s Drug War Is Ruining the World  The Nation

A half-century of Washington’s harsh drug prohibition policies has brought misery to millions across the globe.

Elliptic traces bitcoin to hunt dark web criminals for the FBI  Techworld.com

Elliptic is a crypto tracing company linking crypto addresses to real world entities.

Yatron Ransomware Plans to Spread Using EternalBlue NSA Exploits  BleepingComputer

A new Ransomware-as-a-*Service* called Yatron is being promoted on Twitter that plans on using the EternalBlue and DoublePulsar exploits to spread to other …

Zuckerberg wants Facebook to build a creepy mind-reading machine  New York Post

If you’re concerned about Facebook’s privacy scandals or worried that it’s listening in on your phone calls, you’ll likely be disturbed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s …

CIA Considering Cloud Contract Worth ‘Tens of Billions’  Nextgov

After six years in a classified commercial cloud built by Amazon Web Services, the CIA wants more commercial cloud capabilities from potentially multiple …

NSA Gave Contractors $630M in Incentives. Its Watchdog Has Questions.  Defense One

More than half of the incentive-based contracts reviewed by the agency’s inspector general lacked proof that such incentives were necessary.

Ethical Concerns Raised by Illicit Human Experiments | July 16, 2018 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly  PBS

By David Tereshchuk. Institutional regulation in science – including medical science – is undergoing one of its periodic assaults by proponents of greater …

Disputed N.S.A. Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says  The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts, according to a senior …