Berto Jongman: NSF Truthy Social Media Project

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Feds Pouring Money Into a Project to Create a Database to Track “Suspicious” Internet Memes

The federal government spent $1 million to create an online database that will collect “suspicious” memes and track “misinformation.” The project, which is known as the “Truthy Database” is being funded by The National Science Foundation, but it seems as if the operation has some powerful political motivations.

Mongoose: Water Scarcity for Half the World

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More than half the world's population suffers from ‘severe' water scarcity, scientists say

Alarming new research has found that 4 billion people around the globe – including close to 2 billion in India and China – live in conditions of extreme water scarcity at least one month during the year. Half a billion, meanwhile, experience it throughout the entire year.

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Berto Jongman: ISIS & Internet Vulnerability

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ISIS Smart Phone App is mentioned halfway down.

Ongoing Threat To The Whole Internet – John McAfee: ‘As Serious As It Gets – Absolutely No Defenses In Place'

“I feel certain that the IS news app was the source of the DDoS attack,” cybersecurity expert John McAfee tells IBTimes UK. “One of my researchers has discovered encrypted packets being sent to the Amaq Agency news app. “We found the 13 Root Server Addresses in the app memory while the app was running. The addresses did not appear inside the static app. The addresses therefore had to be decrypted at run time. Why would they encrypt the addresses inside the app unless they were trying to hide the true purpose of the app? This is the smoking gun we were looking for.”

Dimitri Medvedev: Common Sense on War and Peace – Why Europe Needs to Get a Grip…

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Russian Prime Minister: Syria Could Trigger World War

By Sven Afhüppe and Mathias Brüggmann

Handelsblatt, 12 February 2016

In an exclusive interview in Moscow, the Russian prime minister talks to Handelsblatt about the coming of a new Cold War, the Syrian conflict and the global fallout from the refugee crisis.

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Yoda: Faircap Project Open source 3D printed water filter aims to solve global crisis for just $1

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yoda with light saberThe Faircap Project is a collaborative, clean water initiative, whose aim is to create an affordable open source 3D printed water filtration device that could provide clean, safe, drinkable water to those in need. The startup has already created a working prototype, but is now calling on engineers, designers, microbiologists, or anyone interested in helping to pitch their own open source ideas and make the Faircap filter as low cost and accessible as possible.