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Anonymous ID: 752246 June 1, 2018, 1:55 p.m. No.1609370   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Saudi Arabia releases video to 'prove' reformist Crown Prince is alive amid speculation he has been assassinated

Saudi Arabia's reformist Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, was rumoured to have been killed last month after gunfire was reported at the royal palace

Saudi has released video which it says shows Salman meeting Yemeni President

Comes after it released pictures of the prince in a similar meeting last week

Iranian media reported there had been a coup attempt after shots rang out in Riyadh on April 21, but Saudi said guards had fired at a civilian drone

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5790587/Saudi-releases-video-prove-reformist-Crown-Prince-alive.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Anonymous ID: 752246 June 1, 2018, 1:59 p.m. No.1609420   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9425 >>9557

Signs of sophisticated cellphone spying found near White House, U.S. officials say

 

A federal study found signs that surveillance devices for intercepting cellphone calls and texts were operating near the White House and other sensitive locations in the Washington area last year.

 

A Department of Homeland Security program discovered evidence of the surveillance devices, called IMSI catchers, as part of federal testing last year, according to a letter from DHS to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on May 22. The letter didn't specify what entity operated the devices and left open the possibility that there could be alternative explanations for the suspicious cellular signals collected by the federal testing program last year.

 

The discovery bolsters years of independent research suggesting that foreign intelligence agencies use sophisticated interception technology to spy on officials working within the hub of federal power in the nation’s capital. Experts in surveillance technology say that IMSI catchers — sometimes known by one popular brand name, StingRay — are a standard part of the tool kit for many foreign intelligence services, including for such geopolitical rivals as Russia and China.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/01/signs-of-sophisticated-cell-phone-spying-found-near-white-house-say-u-s-officials/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.19207dd9cdf6

Anonymous ID: 752246 June 1, 2018, 2:19 p.m. No.1609623   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Google reportedly won’t renew its controversial military AI contract

Project Maven has attracted a lot of pushback.

 

The controversial government contract that led thousands of Google employees to sign a petition in opposition and dozens to quit in protest will not be renewed, Gizmodo reports. Project Maven has been billed by Google as a small, "non-offensive" deal through which it would provide open-source AI software to the Pentagon that could help the military flag drone images requiring further human review. But the project has been decried by many of the company's employees who believe it could hurt efforts to hold the public's trust and went against Google's "Don't Be Evil" motto.

 

According to three individuals who attended a weekly Google meeting this morning, Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene announced that the Project Maven contract would not be renewed when it expires next year. She said the backlash over the deal had been bad for the company and that the contract was pursued during a time when the company was actively seeking military work.

 

Internal emails obtained by Gizmodo showed that Google's plans for the project may not have been as low-key as the company wanted people to think. Google reportedly put at least 10 employees on the project, viewed the deal as a gateway for future military and intelligence contracts and sought and received security authorizations that would allow it to work on additional government contracts. The Project Maven contract is also apparently worth more than Google executives once said, pulling in around $15 million instead of the $9 million that was previously reported. Its budget also had the possibility of growing to as much as $250 million. Additionally, emails show that Google planned to build a surveillance system for the Pentagon that would let analysts "click on a building and see everything associated with it."

 

https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/01/google-will-not-renew-military-ai-contract-project-maven/