Excerpt: Libyan forces reportedly used Kargu-2 drones to autonomously seek out and attack human targets. This is the first recorded case of using a self-hunting drone against people. Drone experts say this extremely dangerous development could be dangerous to people far beyond the traditional battlefield.

Excerpt: In April 2014, the hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was on a yacht cruising in the Caribbean when he tweeted about the 276 girls kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram from a secondary school in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria. The hashtag he copied lit a matchstick that inflamed the world. Politicians and celebrities followed suit …

Why America’s Trillion-Dollar War on Terrorism Couldn’t Defeat Boko Haram. Foreign Policy. Read More »

Excerpt: Extremists “are using less and less phone lines and more and more internet connections,” said French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin at a recent press conference. It makes a lot of sense: for one, everyone’s using less phone lines and more internet connections, and in addition, internet conversations can be harder to track down than …

France to start using algorithms to detect terrorists — but are algorithms that good? ZME Science. Read More »