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Recreational drones banned in United Arab Emirates after oil facility attack

The Verge

The recent attack on the oil facility and airport in Abu Dhabi reportedly involved both “ballistic missiles and explosive-laden drones,” according to APNews , though it’s not clear from reports what the size and model of these drones were.

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Big Tech pledged a billion to racial justice, but it was pocket change

The Verge

In the first full quarter measuring earnings during the pandemic, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft reported making truckloads of cash. That’s more than the estimated GDP of Iceland and Yemen combined, according to the International Monetary Fund ). All but Google have hit all-time high stock prices in the month of August.

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Alpha Motor’s EV designs look cool, but will they ever get made?

The Verge

Bengt Halvorson at Green Car Reports put up a mighty effort trying to track down some of those answers in August. I recently spent about 35 minutes talking to them via video call in an attempt to answer some of the questions Halvorson (and, in May, former InsideEVs reporter Gustavo Ruffo ) tried to answer. How is the startup funded?

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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Organized by the nonprofit group Access and sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla and other major tech companies, the conference brought together business leaders, policy makers and online activists, especially from the Arabic-speaking world. We need the persistence of human rights groups to secure accountability for violators.

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Jon Stewart roasts Trump cabinet for leaking its own military plans via group chat

Mashable Tech

It sounds like the kind of thing that would only happen in a political comedy show, but the Trump administration really did leak military plans to The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg by mistakenly adding him to a group chat. He said that in a group chat. A group chat with a journalist." Oopsie poopsie!"

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The Trump administration’s Signal scandal shows humans will always be the weakest link in cybersecurity

Fast Company Tech

For several days, a journalist from The Atlantic had unrestricted access to a private Signal group chat involving the highest levels of governmentdiscussing, in real time, an imminent U.S. military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Invite someone to your chat group, and of course they can read everything.

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National Security Council adds Gmail to its list of bad decisions

Engadget

The Washington Post reports that members of the White House's National Security Council have used personal Gmail accounts to conduct government business. And while Signal is a more secure option than a public email client, even the encrypted messaging platform can be exploited, as the Pentagon warned its own team last week.

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