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U.S. Plan to Add Mideast Troops After Attack Draws Pelosi Rebuke

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. will send a “moderate” number of troops to the Middle East and additional missile defense capabilities to Saudi Arabia in response to last weekend’s attack on oil facilities, top Pentagon officials said. The top Democrat in Congress said the actions are unacceptable.

U.S. to Add Mideast Troops After Saudi Attack; Pelosi Criticizes

Meet Facebook’s latest fake

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a 35-year-old billionaire who keeps refusing to sit in front of international parliamentarians to answer questions about his ad business’ impact on democracy and human rights around the world, has a new piece of accountability theatre to sell you: An “Oversight Board“.

USENIX Enigma 2019, René Mayrhofer’s ‘Insider Attack Resistance In The Android Ecosystem’

Thanks to USENIX for publishing the USENIX Enigma 2019

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Here are the 22 companies from Alchemist Accelerator’s Demo Day XXII

Alchemist Accelerator, a startup incubator which focuses on enterprise companies, held a demo day yesterday for its 22nd batch.

He Envisioned the World That Trump Is Demolishing

A century apart, two American presidents faced a world spinning out of control. One was a builder and the other a disrupter. But they have more in common than might be expected.

UPDATE 1-Saudi says it will respond appropriately if probe confirms Iran's role in attacks

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By Stephen Kalin

RIYADH, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will take appropriate steps to respond to an attack on its oil facilities if, as expected, a Saudi investigation confirms that Iran is responsible, a senior official said on Saturday.

Whistle-Blower Fight Puts Focus on Trump Pressure on Ukraine

(Bloomberg) — The fight over a mysterious intelligence whistle-blower complaint is shining new attention on Democratic accusations that Donald Trump has improperly implored the Ukrainian government to investigate one of the president’s main political opponents — Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden.

Propublica finds millions of Americans’ medical images and data sitting on unprotected, publicly accessible servers

An investigation by Propublica and Bayerischer Rundfunk found 187 servers hosting more than 5,000,000 patients’ confidential medical records and scans (including a mix of Social Security numbers, home addresses and phone numbers, scans and images, and medical files) that were accessible by the public, “available to anyone with basic computer expertise.”

Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it

Anna Merlan has made a distinguished journalistic career out of covering conspiracy theories, particularly far-right ones, for Gizmodo Media; her book-length account of conspiratorial thinking, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power, is a superb tour not just through the conspiracies that have taken hold in American public discourse, but also in the real, often traumatic conspiracies that give these false beliefs a terrible ring of plausibility.

U.S. Orders Defensive Boost to Mideast After Saudi Attacks

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. will send a “moderate” number of American troops to the Middle East and additional missile defense capabilities to Saudi Arabia in response to last weekend’s attack on oil facilities, top Pentagon officials said.

Crossfire Hurricane review: tale of Trump and the FBI is a gas gas gas

Few people had better seats than Josh Campbell for the drama that has shaped the Trump presidency. A supervisory special agent at the FBI, he was special assistant to James Comey and stayed on into Robert Mueller’s first year as special counsel.

Warren Asks Congress to Impeach Trump: Campaign Update

(Bloomberg) — Elizabeth Warren pressed Congress to “step up” and begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, after reports that the president asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son.