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Have autonomous robots started killing in war? The reality is messier than it appears

The Verge

It’ll take your mind off the global pandemic at least. Autonomous drone attacked soldiers in Libya all on its own,” read one headline. Let’s be clear: by itself, the UN does not say for certain whether drones autonomously attacked humans in Libya last year, though it certainly suggests this could have happened.

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Trump just drove a truck through Congress’s massive tariff loopholes

Fast Company Tech

Trumps time out of the White House has not changed his mind on that subject. And before Trump, the national security exemption for tariffs had been used primarily to ban oil imports from countries like Iran and Libya (which quite plausibly did pose a threat to national security).

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