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What Artificial Intelligence Is Not

What Artificial Intelligence Is Not

  Posted yesterday by Rob Smith (@robpecabu)

Editor’s note: Rob Smith is CEO of Pecabu.

Artificial Intelligence has been in the media a lot lately. So much so that it’s only a matter of time before it graduates to meaningless buzz word status like “big data” and “cloud.” Usually I would be a big supporter. Being in the AI space, any attention to our often overlooked industry is welcome. But there…

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Identikit del perfetto jihadista europeo

Identikit del perfetto jihadista europeo

di Gianandrea Gaiani  24 novembre 2014

da La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana

La Francia è nel mirino dello Stato Islamico che in un video, lanciato nel giorno in cui Parigi annuncia l’invio di 6 cacciabombardieri Mirage 2000 in Giordania per la guerra in Iraq, in aggiunta ai 9 Rafale dispiegati negli Emirati Arabi Uniti, incita i jihadisti a colpire indiscriminatamente.

«Attaccate la Francia.…

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Spain Grapples with Growing Islamic State Threat

Spain Grapples with Growing Islamic State Threat

Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 22

  November 21, 2014 04:13 PM

  By: John C. K. Daly        Files:TerrorismMonitorVol12Issue22_03.pdf

  Screenshot from a Spanish raid on militant recruiting network in Melilla.(Source: Spanish National Police)

  A recent report by the UN Security Council estimated that 15,000 people from over 80 countries have so far travelled to Syria and…

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China’s Espionage Against Taiwan (Part I): Analysis of Recent Operations

China’s Espionage Against Taiwan (Part I): Analysis of Recent Operations

Publication: Volume: 14 Issue: 21

  November 7, 2014 12:59 PM Age: 15 days By: Peter Mattis, Peter Mattis

  Taiwanese Vice Admiral Ko Cheng-sheng, who was sentenced to 14 months in prison for spying for China. (Credit: WantChinaTimes)

  The last few weeks put Chinese espionage against Taiwan back into the headlines with a series of arrests and sentencing pronouncements. In the first week of…

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Money laundering and terrorist financing controls in overseas jurisdictions - advisory notice

Money laundering and terrorist financing controls in overseas jurisdictions – advisory notice

Guidance

  From: HM Treasury First published: 3 July 2013 Last updated: 18 November 2014 , see all updates

This document contains advice issued by HM Treasury about risks posed by unsatisfactory money laundering and terrorist financing controls.

Document Money laundering and terrorist financing controls in overseas jurisdictions – advisory notice

PDF, 201KB, 14 pages (…

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PKK rules out government’s talk of disarmament

PKK rules out government’s talk of disarmament

      November 18, 2014, Tuesday/ 18:33:10/ TODAY’S ZAMAN / ISTANBUL

  A member of the executive council of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), an umbrella organization that includes the terrorist Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), said on Tuesday that the PKK has no intention of disarming despite the media claiming otherwise, arguing that it is just an election tool used by the Justice and…

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Germany and Italy to keep up to 1,350 soldiers in Afghanistan

Germany and Italy to keep up to 1,350 soldiers in Afghanistan

Source: Reuters – Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:51 GMT

Author: Reuters

(Recasts to add Italian contingent from first paragraph)

BERLIN, Nov 18 (Reuters) – Germany and Italy plan to keep a total of up to 1,350 soldiers in Afghanistan in 2015 to help train local armed forces, their defence ministries said on Tuesday, a slightly larger contingent than had been previously expected.

After more than a decade…

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McConnell: NSA reform would help ISIS

McConnell: NSA reform would help ISIS

    By Julian Hattem – 11/18/14 10:41 AM EST

  The Senate’s top Republican is warning lawmakers against overhauling the nation’s surveillance programs, darkening the prospects for a reform bill that hits the chamber floor on Tuesday.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is “strongly opposed” to the USA Freedom Act, he said on the Senate floor on Tuesday, because it would “end one of…

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UN Seeks to Halt Isis Oil Trade by Seizing Tankers

UN Seeks to Halt Isis Oil Trade by Seizing Tankers

By Nigel Wilson November 18, 2014 15:41 GMT

  Wreckage is seen at a makeshift oil refinery that was targeted by US-led air strikes at al-Khaboura village, near the Syrian town of Tel Abyad in Raqqa province(Reuters)

  A UN report is recommending that all oil tankers leaving territory controlled by militants in Iraq and Syria should be seized in order to cut off a vital source of funding for…

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Global Terrorism Index Report

Global Terrorism Index Report

  17,958 people were killed in terrorist attacks last year, that’s 61% more than the previous year. Get the facts on terrorism with the 2014 Global Terrorism Index Report.

Published 16 Nov 2014

  Terrorism has become a global phenomenon with a 61% increase in the number of people killed in terrorist attacks over the last year. The 2014 Global Terrorism Index provides a fact-based…

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Timeline: Isis hostage killings

Timeline: Isis hostage killings

The apparent murder of American aid worker Peter Kassig was the fifth such killing to be filmed and released by Islamic State

Press Association The Guardian, Sunday 16 November 2014 12.15 GMT

  American aid worker Peter Kassig, who was captured in October 2013. Photograph: Uncredited/AP

The apparent murder of American aid worker Peter Kassig was the fifth such killing to be filmed…

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Italian freed in Libya 8 months after kidnapping

Italian freed in Libya 8 months after kidnapping

Nov 16, 7:01 AM EST

ROME (AP) — Italy’s foreign ministry says an Italian engineer who was abducted in Libya in March has been freed.

The ministry said in a statement Sunday that Gianluca Salviato arrived in Rome last night.

Salviato was working on a sewer construction project for an Italian company when he went missing in the eastern city of Tobruk, Libya.

Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said…

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Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis posts video of attack on army checkpoint

Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis posts video of attack on army checkpoint

Saturday, November 15, 2014 10:25 AM

A snapshot from a video released on Twitter by Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis on August 28, 2014.

        CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt‘s most dangerous militant group on Friday posted its first video message since pledging allegiance to Islamic State, with footage purporting to show that the group was behind one of the most deadly attacks on Egyptian security forces in…

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To fight terrorism, follow the money – and stop it

To fight terrorism, follow the money – and stop it

We must be proactive in investigating and penalising all those who are funding terrorist organisations Police raid a property in south London Photo: Reuters

      By David Blunkett  10:00PM GMT 15 Nov 2014

    As I wrote in these pages last week, it is crucial that Britain responds rapidly to emerging terror threats – whether they are in the real world or online, where they can…

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Libya frees nine Turks detained by army

Libya frees nine Turks detained by army

BENGHAZI – Agence France-Presse

A demonstration in support of Libya‘s current government has been organized Nov. 14 in downtown Tripoli. AA photo

Libya on Nov. 14 released nine Turks who had been captured by the army and handed them over to representatives from Ankara, a government statement said.

The men had been captured by troops in the embattled eastern city of Benghazi, where former general

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NOAA COMPROMISED IN APPARENT CHINESE ATTACK

NOAA COMPROMISED IN APPARENT CHINESE ATTACK

by Chris BrookNovember 13, 2014 , 1:49 pm

Systems belonging to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were recently compromised, purportedly by Chinese hackers.

The NOAA confirmed that four of the scientific agency’s websites were targeted and compromised in an “internet-sourced attack” earlier this fall, in a statement released Wednesday. It’s assumed that the National Ice…

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Here’s What ISIS Recruits Ask Before Joining Up for Jihad

Here’s What ISIS Recruits Ask Before Joining Up for Jihad

AP PHOTO/RAQQA MEDIA OFFICE

Life inside the world’s most notorious terror organization isn’t all murder and mayhem. Veteran members of Islamic Stateare using a social-networking website to answer more mundane questions from aspiring militants, who want answers on such prosaic issues as what to wear, how cold it gets, if they have to buy their own weapons, whether there’s wi-fi, and whether they…