Topic: POLICE REPORT - on July 8, 2016 at 4:59:00 PM CEST
Dallas Police Used Robot Bomb to Take Out Cop Killer
Dallas police used a robot bomb to take out the suspected shooter behind the ambush attack in which five officers were killed, Police Chief David Brown said Friday. Dallas police chief: we used a robot to detonate a bomb next to the suspect, killing him. He did NOT shoot himself. — Jamie Grierson (@JamieGrierson) July 8, 2016 Dallas Police Chief gives an update on what happened in Dallas: "the suspect is deceased" and did not kill himself — Sky News (@SkyNews) July 8, 2016
heatst.com npr.org How the Dallas Police Used an Improvised Killer Robot to Take Down the Gunman Everything we know about the bomb robot used by Dallas police Are Police Allowed to Robot-Bomb Suspects? The Dallas Shooting and the Advent of Killer Police Robots Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing Everything We Know About Dallas Shooter Micah X. Johnson
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 8, 2016 at 4:57:00 PM CEST
NSA classifies Linux Journal readers, Tor and Tails Linux users as "extremists"
Are you a Linux Journal reader or use software such as Tor and Tails Linux? If so, you've probably been flagged as an "extremist" by the NSA. Leaked documents related to the XKeyscore snooping program reveal that the agency is targeting anyone who is interested in online privacy, specifically those who use the aforementioned software and visit the Linux user community website. XKeyscore is a collection and analysis software that was among a number of surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden last year. Its source code (basically a rule file), which has been obtained and analyzed by members of the Tor project and security specialists for German broadcasters NDR and WDR, identifies two German Tor Directory Authority servers as being under surveillance by the NSA. The code also cites a number of specific IP addresses of the Tor Directory Authority.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 8, 2016 at 4:54:00 PM CEST
Police, Prosecutors and Judges Rely on a Flawed $2 Drug Test That Puts Innocent People Behind Bars
Amy Albritton can’t remember if her boyfriend signaled when he changed lanes late that August afternoon in 2010. But suddenly the lights on the Houston Police patrol car were flashing behind them, and Anthony Wilson was navigating Albritton’s white Chrysler Concorde to a stop in a strip-mall parking lot. It was an especially unwelcome hassle. Wilson was in Houston to see about an oil-rig job; Albritton, volunteering her car, had come along for what she imagined would be a vacation of sorts. She managed an apartment complex back in Monroe, La., and the younger of her two sons — Landon, 16, who had been disabled from birth by cerebral palsy — was with his father for the week. After five hours of driving through the monotony of flat woodland, the couple had checked into a motel, carted their luggage to the room and returned to the car, too hungry to rest but too drained to seek out anything more than fast food. Now two officers stepped out of their patrol car and approached.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 8, 2016 at 4:53:00 PM CEST
Silicon Valley Investors Are Finally Getting Marijuana Religion
When three Colorado marijuana entrepreneurs made a presentation to 40 Silicon Valley investors last year, it was as though they were discussing something dirty. “There was an uncomfortable chuckle in the room, kind of like you’re talking about porn,” says Fulton Connor, the Sand Hill Angels Inc. member who arranged the meeting. His fellow venture capitalists just couldn’t get past the fact that marijuana remains prohibited under federal law. They’re way more chill now, he says. In May, Connor’s firm, which typically invests in mainstream startups like the taxi-hailing app Flywheel, steered $200,000 to Tradiv, an online marketplace for wholesale cannabis. “They understand it more as a business and the direction of the market,” Connor says. “And they see where it’s becoming more acceptable.”
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