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US Warship “Expelled” From South China Sea

The heavily disputed waterway is one of the flashpoints in the U.S.-China relationship, including a trade war, technology war, U.S. sanctions, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

By TYLER DURDEN for ZeroHedge

The superpower clash between China and the U.S. continued on Friday [02/05/2020] as a U.S. Navy ship sailed near the Chinese-controlled Paracel Islands in the heavily disrupted South China Sea.

It got a stern rebuke (and what some would call, an appropriate response) from Beijing.

Shortly after, CGTN reported that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) "expelled" the destroyer after it "trespassed" into China's territorial waters.

Tian Junli, a spokesperson for the PLA Southern Theater Command, said the move "seriously infringed China's sovereignty and security."

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A Woman’s Campaign To Destroy a Family’s Reputation

Guy Babcock discovered the power of a lone person to destroy countless reputations.

By Kashmir Hill for The New York Times Photo Credit: NYTimes

Guy Babcock vividly remembers the chilly Saturday evening when he discovered the stain on his family. It was September 2018.

He, his wife and their young son had just returned to their home in Beckley, an English village outside of Oxford. Mr. Babcock still had his coat on when he got a frantic call from his father.

“I don’t want to upset you, but there is some bad stuff on the internet,” Mr. Babcock recalled his father saying.

Someone, somewhere, had written terrible things online about Guy Babcock and his brother, and members of their 86-year-old father’s social club had alerted him.

Mr. Babcock, a software engineer, got off the phone and Googled himself.

The results were full of posts on strange sites accusing him of being a thief, a fraudster and a pedophile. The posts listed Mr. Babcock’s contact details and employer.

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Congressional Panel: Please, Let Us Build Killer Robots

National Security Commission concluded that Congress should at least consider giving killer robots or artificial intelligence systems a chance.

By DAN ROBITZSKI for Futurism & The Byte Image: TriStar / via YouTube

Tasked with deciding whether the United States military should be able develop autonomous killer robots capable of using deadly force, a congressional advisory panel decided that the government should keep its options open.

Arguing that an effective AI might take actions that result in fewer casualties than human soldiers, committee vice chairman and former deputy secretary of defense Robert Work said that “it is a moral imperative to at least pursue this hypothesis,” according to Reuters.

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