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8/25/17
TechNews for the week: August 25; August 23; August 21;

War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Trump outlines a revised vision, but few specifics, for war in Afghanistan; Trump's "new approach" to Afghanistan isn't new at all, but it's the least-worst option;
Infighting, stalemate and finally a bow to the generals: Inside Trump's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan; A dozen key lines from Trump's Afghanistan speech;
U.S. Treasury announces sanctions against Chinese and Russian companies and individuals supporting North Korean regime;
China demands U.S. immediately withdraw N. Korea sanctions;
U.S. Embassy stops issuing nonimmigrant visas to Russians as diplomatic standoff deepens; Donald Trump Can Make Friends With Russians or Nazis but Not Both;
Netanyahu denounces Iran 'threat' in Putin talks; Why Can't Netanyahu Condemn Trump's Support for Anti-Semites?
Qatar restores diplomatic ties to Iran amid regional crisis;
Trump administration slaps new financial penalties on the Venezuelan government;
Bannon's next move: A return to Breitbart News, with more reach than ever; Bannon, basically: Trump's campaign was a fraud;
The Trump administration just disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change; Trump to Arts Committee: You Can't quit, I'm Firing You;
Trump deregulation adviser resigned ahead of negative magazine story; Trump Science Envoy resigns; Trump Staffer Responsible For Finding Positive News Stories Resigns;
President Trump's list of false and misleading claims tops 1,000; What Trump has undone; Trump says: I pass a lot of bills. Also, the Democrats won't let me pass bills;
Lobbyist at Trump Campaign Meeting Has a Web of Russian Connections;
56% of Americans disapprove of how Trump responded to Charlottesville; American Jews hear the footsteps of white nationalists and worry;
KKK leader threatens to 'burn' Latina journalist, the first black person on his property; Mnuchin tells Yale classmates: Trump does not equate neo-Nazis with peaceful protesters;
Catholic priest in Virginia steps down after revealing he was a Ku Klux Klan member; Neo-Nazis using fashion in an attempt to normalize. The fashion industry needs to speak up;
Trump threatens shutdown, hints at pardon for embattled former sheriff; White House dodges questions on why Trump threatened shutdown over border wall funding;
As Trump ranted and rambled in Phoenix, his crowd slowly thinned; Police Tear Gas Crowds After Trump Rally;
Trump supporters post fake photos of huge crowds at Phoenix rally - as real images show room half-empty;
Trump blames the media for most of his problems as president;
Escalating feud, Trump blames McConnell and Ryan for upcoming 'mess' on debt ceiling;
Secret Service says it will run out of money to protect Trump and his family Sept. 30;
Republican committees have paid nearly $1.3 million to Trump-owned entities this year;
Uncounted Kansas ballots fuel fears about Kobach's proposals; Kansas trial to examine bias claim against Kobach's office;
Federal judge again tosses out Texas voter ID law;
Democracy in North Carolina Could Disappear. Is Your State Next? Elections worker in North Carolina charged with changing 2016 vote totals;
Georgia Voters Sue to Overturn Special Election, Cite Hacking;

Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Justice Dep't Drops Request for Visitor Logs on Trump Protest Site; Judge orders tech company to release user data from anti-Trump website;
Do the Police Need a Search Warrant to Access Cell Phone Location Data; Why did CIA create a bogus software upgrade? To steal data from FBI, NSA;
FBI Asks Private Sector Companies To Stop Using Kaspersky Products; FBI charges Chinese national with distributing malware used in OPM hack;
Cybersecurity Firm Labels Some Robots Easy to Hack; Ukrainian Central Bank Warns Lenders About New Malware;
Hackers Hijack Mobile Phone Numbers to Steal Virtual Currency; Insider Attack on Lottery Software;
Google opens up on Titan security: Here's how chip combats hardware backdoors;
Your Personal Bodycam;
Math and science
People Who Get Less REM Sleep May Be at Greater Risk of Dementia;
LANL Researchers May Have Discovered New State Of Matter;
Measles outbreak is only energizing anti-vaccine activists;
This Babylonian tablet just rewrote the history of mathematics;
Virginia teen crowned world champion of spreadsheets;
Caftans and Quivers: An Archery Competition 500 Years in the Making;
Web and computing issues
Where do your first amendment rights end online? Who Owns the Internet?
Full Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi thin client; The death of Ruby? Developers should learn these languages instead;
10 Best Android Apps to Install on the Samsung Galaxy Note 8;
U.K. Government Plans to Adhere to EU Data-Sharing Rules;
SC News and Politics
Nikki Haley: I had a 'personal conversation' with Trump about Charlottesville;
Mystery deaths of HL Hunley submarine crew solved - they accidentally killed themselves;
S.C. utilities stop building $16B V.C. Summer nuclear expansion; Duke Asks to Cancel Planned South Carolina Nuclear Reactors;

Finance and Economics
China, Like U.S., Struggles to Revive Industrial Heartland; China Steps Up Warnings Over Debt-Fueled Overseas Acquisitions; 9 Common Effects of Inflation;
Experts Say US Economic Expansion May Last Two More Years; Dollar Edges Down vs Yen After Trump's Govt Shutdown Remarks;
Yellen rejects Trump approach to Wall Street regulation, says post-crisis banking rules make economy safer;
Terminating NAFTA would push USA backward;
Robots Won't Take All Our Jobs; Coal Miners Struggle To Find Jobs In Fracking Industry;
Big data and cloud drive smart manufacturing success; Tech Companies Facing Greater Scrutiny in Trump Administration;
Coal Mining Health Study Is Halted by Interior Department; Wind Sector Waiting On Possible Mergers;
U.S. Energy Dept grid study calls for boost to coal, nuclear power; Cheap gas has hurt coal and nuclear plants;
International Engineering Firms Submit Bids For Saudi Aramco Gas Project;
US Air Force Selects Lockheed, Raytheon To Develop New Nuclear-Capable Cruise Missile;
Other news
How the Republican party quietly does the bidding of white supremacists; Where are the monuments to Confederate Gen. James Longstreet?
Confederate Statues and 'Our' History; Rewriting history or attending to the past? Monuments still confound Europe, too;
This Insane Mistake Trump Just Made on Twitter May Be His Worst Yet;
The White House's secretiveness is getting so bad, it's probably illegal;

Education:
Study Finds Some States Spending Less On Higher Education Than Ten Years Ago; The full study;
Despite State Budget Surplus, College Students In Georgia Drop Out With Debt; Massachusetts AG Sues PHEAA For Mismanaging Student Loan Programs;
Few High Schools Start At Recommended Time Of 8:30 AM;
Black And Hispanic Students Remain Underrepresented At Top Schools Despite Affirmative Action; Colleges need affirmative action but it can be expanded;
School Districts Turn Solar Eclipse Into Science Lesson;
As Libraries Go Digital, Costs Remain Tangible; Consortium Of German Academics Push For Open Access;
Advocates Criticize DeVos' Decision To Delay Gainful Employment Rule;
How One White Nationalist Became - and Remains - a Thorn in Texas A&M's Side; UNC Says It Can't Legally Remove Confederate Statue, Despite Governor's Guidance;
Liberty U. Alumni Protest Falwell's Continued Support of Trump; How Colleges Are Strangling Liberalism;
Former FBI Director Comey Will Hold Endowed Chair at Howard U.;
Cincinnati State Suspends All Sports Except Soccer;

8/18/17
TechNews for the week: August 18; August 16; August 14;

War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
In call with Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping urges restraint over North Korea; China to ban North Korean imports of iron, lead and coal as part of U.N. sanctions;
Russia-West Balancing Act Grows Ever More Wobbly in Belarus; In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the Whistle on Russian Hacking;
WikiLeaks Turned Down Leaks on Russian Government During U.S. Presidential Campaign;
Trump campaign emails show aide's repeated efforts to set up Russia meetings; Combative Trump Pulls His Punches for One Man: Putin;
New campaign emails make it harder for Trump to deny Russia meddled in the election;
Echoing Trump, a defiant Netanyahu attacks 'fake news' as investigations heat up;
Trump won't 'rule out a military option' in Venezuela;
White House Aide Forced Out After Claim of Leftist Conspiracy; The Memo That Blew Up the NSC;
Trump ad says his 'enemies' are trying to undermine his progress;
Violent clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville; Charlottesville suspect espoused Nazi ideals in high school;
White House doubles down on Trump's Charlottesville comments, ignores calls to directly confront white supremacy;
Trump condemns white supremacists and other hate groups after 2 days following criticism of his response to violence in Va.;
FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago; Reports suggest Donald Trump's father was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally;
On Twitter, Trump accuses blacks of racism three times as often as whites; Trump puts a fine point on it: He sides with the alt-right in Charlottesville;
President's lawyer jumps into racial controversy by forwarding inflammatory email; Forwards Email Echoing Secessionist Rhetoric;
Trump fires back after the CEO of Merck resigned from his manufacturing council;
Trump's business advisory councils disband as CEOs abandon president over Charlottesville views; Two White House corporate advisory groups disband;
Trump Defends Initial Remarks on Charlottesville; Again Blames 'Both Sides'; Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost ;
Trump and race: Decades of fueling divisions; Trump recycles debunked pigs' blood tale after attack in Barcelona;
Three fundraising giants cancel plans for galas at Mar-a-Lago;
Trump ousts White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon;
Trump administration demands data on over a million visitors to anti-Trump site; Tech firm is fighting a federal demand for data on visitors to an anti-Trump website;
Missouri State Senator Urged To Resign Over Her 'Hope' For Trump's Assassination;
What Donald Trump sees every time he opens Twitter;
Texas Bathroom Bill Dies Again, Raising Republican Acrimony;

Math, science and technology:
Security issues
August Crypto-Gram Newsletter, Ethereum Hack, Zero-Day Vulnerabilities. and more; Report: The US government has a massive footprint on the darknet;
Internet Of Things Presents Security, Logistical Challenges; How Hackers Make Big Bucks Stealing, Selling Personal Information;
Microsoft PowerPoint exploit used to bypass antivirus and spread malware; These 8 Google Chrome extensions have been hijacked by a hacker;
Tech Firms Ask Supreme Court to Require Warrants for Phone Searches;
Math and science
America's greatest observatory carries on; Russian 'Artificial Star' Solar Reflector Fails To Unfold In Orbit;
Particle Accelerator In Abandoned Mine Used To Study Heavy Element Formation; New Semiconductor Material Outperforms Silicon;
Intel Studies Passenger Reactions To Autonomous Vehicle Riding Experience;
Researchers Developing Miniaturized Versions Of Human Organs-On-A-Chip;
Found: Oldest Known Photo of a U.S. President;
Web and computing issues
EFF Criticizes Tech Firms for Refusing to Serve Neo-Nazi Groups;
Top 5: Things to know about password managers;
IBM's Weather Channel adds live tracking flight data;
SC News and Politics
Southern nationalists again crying 'secede';

Finance and Economics
The World's Top 10 Economies; Japan's Economy Grows Again, in Longest Streak in 11 Years;
Health Insurers Get More Time to Calculate Increases for 2018; Ending Obamacare subsidies would increase premiums by 20 percent in 2018;
Maritime Sector Facing Mass Retirements Without Qualified Replacements; Vacant Manufacturing Positions Underscore Shift In Job Prerequisites;
US Trade Officials To Hold Hearing On Solar Trade Battle; Divided US Solar Sector Argues At ITC Tariff Hearing;
U.S. Begins Nafta Negotiations With Harsh Words; Clean Energy Projected To Be A Primary Source In China By 2030;
DOE To Sell 14 Million Barrels From Strategic Petroleum Reserve; Court: EPA Erred In Denial Of Sinclair Renewable Fuel Hardship Exemption;
Missouri Public Service Commission Rejects Massive Midwest Wind Power Line; Iowa County Board Rejects Wind Farm Moratorium Plan;
Trump Signs Executive Order Streamlining Approval Process For Infrastructure Projects; How a Conservative TV Giant Is Ridding Itself of Regulation;
A Start-Up Suggests a Fix to the Health Care Morass;
Millennials Not Interested Enough In Muscle Cars;
Other news
Trump threatened to nuke North Korea. It's a myth that Ike did the same;
The three reasons fascism spread in 1930s America - and might spread again today;
Why are people still racist? What science says about America's race problem;
Historians: Washington and Jefferson are not the same as Confederate generals; How statues of Robert E. Lee and other Confederates got into the U.S. Capitol;
Beware: Trump may use the alt-right to turn himself into the center;

Education:
US Must Move Past Thinking College Is Right For All Students; Experts Offer Advice On How To Stay In College;
One Way to Improve Your College Town: One Way to Improve Your College Town: Pay Your Faculty to Live There;
Purdue recieves $1 Million Grant To Study Students' Ability To Understand Evidence;
How Universities Embolden White Nationalists; The Far Right Comes to Campus; When White Supremacists Descend, What Can a College President Do?
Torch-wielding white nationalists march on University of Virginia ahead of massive rally;
As Support Grows for Ditching Confederate Statues, Colleges Weigh Their Options; Another Public University Says No to a White-Nationalist Event;
What Betsy DeVos Told the Associated Press About Higher Ed;
U. Florida Audit Finds Public Records Appear to Have Been Altered by Former General Counsel;

8/11/17
TechNews for the week: August 11; August 9; August 7;

War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
North Korea's ICBM tests may be a deception tactic to hide a much more capable threat; US assesses NKorea can fit nuke inside a missile;
U.N. imposes tough new sanctions on North Korea; North Korea vows revenge a 'thousand-fold' after new UN sanctions;
Trump's threats to North Korea were spontaneous and not drafted by advisers; North Korea responds with threat to strike Guam;
Tillerson sees no 'imminent threat' of North Korea attack; North Korea warned by Mattis not to invite 'destruction';
Trump escalates rhetoric on North Korea, saying his earlier statement may not have been 'tough enough';
China urges U.S. to stop hurling threats at North Korea; China warns North Korea: You're on your own if you go after the United States;
Evangelical adviser says 'God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un';
As political turmoil mounts, Afghans fret over seeming lack of U.S. strategy; Iran Gains Ground in Afghanistan as U.S. Presence Wanes;
Erik Prince's private air force in Afghanistan faces many legal hurdles;
Iranian drone buzzes US naval jet in Gulf; Thousands of Yemeni Forces Target Qaeda Stronghold;
Jordan king in rare West Bank trip seen as message to Israel; Israel plans to shut down Al Jazeera office, says that 'democracy has limits';
As Investigations Intensify, Israel Imagines Life After Netanyahu; Netanyahu's Inner Circle Is Fleeing Like Rats on the Titanic;
He used to rule Germany. Now, he oversees Russian energy companies and lashes out at the U.S.;
Russian surveillance plane soars over the Pentagon, Capitol and other Washington sights;
Mueller asks White House for Flynn documents; Michael Flynn Discloses Ties to Firm Related to Controversial Data Analysis Company;
Lawyer clarifies report about Trump messaging Mueller; FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort's home;
Trump called for acting FBI director's firing hours after FBI agents raided Paul Manafort's home;
Jeff Sessions's Leak Probe Press Conference Was Misleading;
Trump TV's 'real news' sounds more like real propaganda; Trump tweets link to Fox News story based on 'classified' intelligence;
Transcripts released Transcripts released revealing Trump intended American taxpayers to front bill for Mexican wall;
Trump deports fewer immigrants than Obama, including criminals;
Trump declares the opioid crisis a national emergency; Climate Report Could Force Trump to Choose Between Science and His Base;
Conservatives continue push for probes of Clinton and her campaign;
Trump takes issue with McConnell's accusation that he had 'excessive expectations' for Congress;
How the Trump hotel has become a sort of White House annex;
Republicans willing to suspend 2020 US election if Trump asks; Maine Gov. Paul LePage Threatens To Raise State Voting Age To 21;
The U.S. could be free of gerrymandering. Here's how other countries do redistricting;
Chicago sues Justice Department over new police grant rules targeting sanctuary cities;
White nationalists from all corners of the internet are uniting for the "largest racist protest in decades";
Defendants Kept in the Dark About Evidence, Until It's Too Late;

Math, science and technology:
Security issues
The Behavioral Economics of Why Executives Underinvest in Cybersecurity;
States Increase Efforts to Protect Against Election Hacking; DefCon hackers made short work of voting machines. Now what?
Arrest of Cybersecurity Researcher Worries Hackers, Firm; Computer law expert says British hacker arrest problematic; Salesforce fires staffers who gave Defcon talk;
Microsoft fixes 'critical' security bugs affecting all versions of Windows; Warning, Windows 10 users! Tech support scammers have a new method for phishing attacks;
U.S. Army Stops Using Chinese Drones, Citing Cyber Vulnerabilities;
Inside the fight against malware attacks; More on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process;
Hacking Slot Machines by Reverse-Engineering the Random Number Generators;
Chips can fall out of chip credit cards, leaving consumers vulnerable;
Researchers Discover Way to Store Malware in Synthetic DNA;
Math and science
Eclipse Will Blot Out Solar Panels; Facts about our sun and moon that you're embarrassed to admit you don't know;
Federal climate change report now in hands of Trump administration. Here are the main points;
Discovery of 13 million-year-old ape skull shows what human ancestors may have looked like;
Scientists create the first mutant ants;
IBM Research Distributed Deep Learning code breaks accuracy record for image recognition;
US Military Grows Closer To Using Laser Weapons, Railguns;
Chicago maps its underground maze; What it takes to become a smart city; These smart cities in Italy put Silicon Valley to shame;
Web and computing issues
Why Quantum Computing Is More Dangerous Than You Realize;
LibreOffice 5.4 Open-Source Office Suite Enhances User Experience; Mozilla Firefox 55 Brings Virtual Reality to the Web;
Trump tweeted his appreciation to a social media super-fan. But it may have been a Russian bot;
Maine Governor Blocking Facebook Users, Deleting Comments; Indian Government Blocks Access to Internet Archive;
Turn your phone into a document scanner for free; Watch movies online for free;
Appeals Court Rules Against Validity of Podcasting Patent;
SC News and Politics
While S.C. Has Fewer Hate Groups, There May Be More Simmering Hate;
South Carolina AG coordinated with key figure in statehouse probe on letter booting special prosecutor off case;
Gov. Henry McMaster considering Santee Cooper sale to help pay for nuclear project;

Finance and Economics
Transformation Underway As American Factories Turn To Robots; Foreign Companies Are Making, Not Killing, U.S. Jobs;
Some Manufacturing Leaders See "Technological" Solution To Skills Gap; There are 7 million unemployed and 6.2 million job openings. What's the problem?
President Trump's claim of Obamacare 'bailouts' for insurance companies; Trump actions trigger health premium hikes for 2018;
Facing Trump Subsidy Cuts, Health Insurance Officials Seek a Backup Plan; Programs That Fight Teenage Pregnancy Are at Risk of Being Cut;
In the Age of Trump, the Dollar No Longer Seems a Sure Thing; Despite S.E.C. Warning, Wave of Initial Coin Offerings Grows;
Secrecy and Suspicion Surround Trump's Deregulation Teams; Trump Administration Encouraging Coal Mining On Federal Lands;
West Virginia Governor: Trump Interested In Coal Payments; Critics say proposal would be expensive and misguided;
Trump's immigration crackdown has U.S. companies wary of hiring foreign tech workers;
Trump's border wall would slice through wildlife refuges and cut off U.S. territory in Texas;
Is Southern's $25 Billion Nuclear Project A Go; This might explain why your electricity bill is so high;
Wells Fargo, Awash in Scandal, Faces Violations Over Car Insurance Refunds;
US drops charges against promoter of Chinese reverse mergers;
DOE Warns Of "Uncertain" Future For Wind; Map Shows Growth Of Wind Farms Across US; French Road Paved With Solar Panels;
Trump promised to build the Keystone XL. Three votes in Nebraska could stop it; Questions Emerge Over What Wisconsin Must Give for Foxconn Plant;
Other news
More whiffs, walks and long balls: Baseball faces an existential crisis;
How Successful People Make Decisions Differently;

Education:
How can America fix its worst public schools? States don't seem to know; Colorado Governor Calls For Bipartisan Support For Postsecondary Job Training;
Report: 90 Percent of Parents Say Their Student Performs at Grade Level, Only 1 in 3 Does; 5 Simple Ways to Reach Gen Z;
As Male Numbers Decline, Colleges Ramp Up Efforts To Boost Enrollment; Marygrove College to Eliminate All Undergraduate Programs;
University of Georgia students can choose their own grades in 'stress reduction policy'; Could Grades Be Counterproductive;
Training Graduate Students to Be Effective Teachers; New Venture Will Offer Free Courses That Students Can Take for College Credit;
Elsevier Is Becoming a Data Company. Should Universities Be Wary;
New Law Limits New Jersey Student Loan Amounts; Education Dept.'s Progress Is Stalled in Complying With Consumer Rule;
Purdue Wins State Approval for Controversial Deal With Kaplan U;
UCLA QB: 'Football and school don't go together'; Big-Time Sports Programs Tighten Rules on Athletes With Sexual-Assault Records;
Ole Miss football pinned its NCAA scandal to a rogue assistant;

8/4/17
TechNews for the week: August 4; August 2; July 31;

War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Trump, frustrated by Afghan war, suggests firing U.S. commander;
Behind the Sudden Death of a $1 Billion Secret C.I.A. War in Syria;
U.S. displays military firepower after North Korea’s latest ICBM test; U.S. Opens Door to Talks With North Korea, While Flexing Military Muscle ;
Putin orders cut of 755 personnel at U.S. diplomatic missions in Russia; President Trump silent on Russia after Putin announced expulsion of U.S. diplomats;
Trump signs what he calls 'seriously flawed' bill imposing new sanctions on Russia; blames Congress for 'all-time' low relationship with Russia;
Shahid Abbasi elected as Pakistan's prime minister; Netanyahu says corruption probes against him are 'background noise';
Qatar launches wide-ranging WTO complaint against trade boycott;
Venezuela Vote Marred by Violence, Including Candidate's Death ; Venezuelan president is sanctioned after election that critics called 'illegitimate';
Scaramucci removed as White House communications director; Trump enlists Kelly to enforce order, but can the 'zoo' be tamed;
The knives are coming out for H.R. McMaster;
Trump urges Republican senators not to give up on healthcare; threatens insurer payments and health care enjoyed by Congress;
Lawmakers Have Bipartisan Health Ideas. Now to Persuade Their Leaders; Behind Legislative Collapse: An Angry Vow Fizzles for Lack of a Viable Plan;
GOP shows signs of reaching out to Democrats on health care; Trump budget chief gets in fiery exchange over critical Obamacare payments;
Interior Department watchdog to investigate threat to Alaska senator on healthcare;
Trump dictated son's misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer; Michael Flynn files amended disclosure report showing additional payments;
Kushner Companies Said to Be Under Investigation Over Visa Program;
Mueller using grand jury in federal court in D.C. as part of Russia investigation; Senators unveil two plans to protect Mueller's Russia probe from presidential interference;
A timeline of the explosive lawsuit alleging a White House link in the Seth Rich conspiracy;
Trump endorses bill that would slash legal immigration;
Secretaries of State are Still Handing Over Voter Information to Kobach; Maine State Official says Trump's Voter Fraud Commission Doesn't Know What It's Doing;
$4.8 Trillion in Tax Cuts? These States Are the Big Losers (and Winners) in Trump's Tax Plan;
'You cannot say that to the press': Trump urged Mexican president to end his public defiance on border wall, transcript reveals;
Justice Dept. tripled number of leak probes as Trump administration intensifies crackdown;
U.S. police chiefs blast Trump for endorsing 'police brutality';
Why Americans are fighting over a gorgeous monument called Bears Ears;
Debt-ceiling talks between White House, Senate break up with no progress;
9 times the Trump team denied something and then confirmed it;
Guarding Trump's Mar-a-Lago club by air and sea has cost taxpayers $6.6 million;
Trump's Base Sticks With Him, Except in the South; Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears; Senate Republicans slowly turning their backs on Trump;
Police chiefs have been forced to rehire hundreds of officers who were fired for misconduct;
Amazon says it is under investigation for selling to Iranian embassy, others;
Appeals court tosses murder conviction of Blackwater contractor in 2007 killings of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians;
Illinois Governor Vetoes Chicago School Aid From Funding Measure;

Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Defcon hackers: It's easy to break into voting machines; Black Hat, DefCon Expose Flaws in Voting Machines to Smart Guns; Voting Machine Security;
Exposed IoT servers let hackers unlock prison cells, modify pacemakers;
UK researcher who stopped WannaCry outbreak arrested over Kronos malware; researcher denies creating banking malware in court;
Putin Signs Law Banning Use of Virtual Private Networks; Chinese Censors Test New System for Shutting Down Websites;
House Panel Asks Government Agencies for Info About Kaspersky; Biotechnology: the US-China dispute over genetic data;
New U.S. Cyber-Security Legislation May Help Reassert Fourth Amendment; Splitting the NSA and US Cyber Command; NSA Collects MS Windows Error Information;
Bill Creates Security Requirements for Some Internet-Connected Devices;
Sex Trafficking Bill Called Risk to User-Generated Content;
Measuring Vulnerability Rediscovery;
Math and science
The Future of Fake News: Don't Believe Everything You Read, See or Hear;
Australian radio telescopes see back billions of years; Travel the path of the solar eclipse;
First human embryo-editing experiment in U.S. 'corrects' gene for frequently lethal heart condition; Memory Recovery, Retention Device To Overcome Dementia;
Vanderbilt Engineers Unveil Smart Underwear;
New Technologies Under Development Would Prevent Train Crashes;
What's Next In 3D Printing;
Web and computing issues
For Facebook, erasing hate speech proves a daunting challenge; Judge rules public officials can't block people on social media;
Apple Removes Apps From China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship;
Windows 10: Five reasons to avoid Microsoft's flagship OS; Firefox browser boldly seeks to lure you back from Chrome;
SC News and Politics
Thirsty mega-farms siphon S.C.'s rivers as state watches; S.C.'s underground water resources get fresh scrutiny as demands increase;
Some South Carolinians could see 33% hike in health insurance costs as Congress and Trump suspend the "cost-sharing reductions";
Don't bank on Tim Scott's support for Export-Import appointee, Bryant's ethic problems, Sanford put on notice;
Washington advocacy group tells Rep. Trey Gowdy, to 'put his country ahead of his political party';
FBI involvement could bring 'whole new dimension' to S.C. Statehouse corruption probe;
Catherine Templeton, GOP gubernatorial candidate, touts Confederate pride, abortion restrictions, coastal protection;
SC historian wants to observe the start of slavery in America;

Finance and Economics
U.S. economy rebounds strongly in the second quarter; U.S job growth surges in July, as U.S. fully regains jobs lost in recession;
Eurozone unemployment falls to fresh post-crisis low;
What's behind the Dow's stunning rise to 22,000; Fewer Immigrants Mean More Jobs? Not So, Economists Say;
Tech Industry Criticizes Trump's Plan to Limit Number of Green Cards;
S.C. utilities halt work on new nuclear reactors, dimming the prospects for a nuclear energy revival; Two Half-Finished Nuclear Reactors Scrapped as Costs Balloon;
Regulators to hear plans to stop building 2 nuclear reactors; Economics Of New Nuclear Power May Prevent It From Helping To Reduce Emissions;
Chinese Solar Tile Company Eyes Mass Production;
Navajo Tribal Utility Authority Starts Solar Farm Amid Station Closing; Indiana Mayor Makes Solar Push Ahead Of Change In State Law;
California's Cap-and-trade Program Is A Model For Other States; Trump Administration To Reject Icahn-Backed Overhaul To Biofuel Program;
Congressional Transportation Spending Bills Generally Shrug Aside White House Cuts;
Jana Partners, Trian Fund join opponents challenging Dow-DuPont plans;
Boeing offers more buyouts at North Charleston campus, layoffs could follow;
Scotland just made it much harder for Trump to expand his golf empire there;
How to Set up a Trust Fund If You're Not Rich;
Other news
An Author From the 1800s Predict the Trumps, Russia and America's Downfall; Why is Trump so bad at strategy? It's time for some game theory! No, really;
Boy Scouts say Trump's claim their leader phoned him to praise speech is untrue;
Christians are more than twice as likely to blame a person’s poverty on lack of effort ;
Airport Checklist: Boarding Pass, ID, Stress;
Why running is so beneficial for older women; How to Feed a Runner; The 9-Minute Strength Workout;

Education:
Questions for 2 Experts on the Future of Higher Education; In Charlottesville, UVa Grapples With Its History and the Alt-Right;
Cal State Eliminates Math Placement Tests, Remedial Classes; Requiring College Exams Boosts Enrollment;
Senate Sends GI Bill College Aid Expansion To Trump's Desk;
They Each Applied to More Than 100 Colleges. That May Be the Problem;
Trump Administration Will Investigate Affirmative Action in College Admissions; What You Need to Know About Race-Conscious Admissions in 2017;
Justice Dept. to use resources to sue universities over discrimination of whites; How Colleges Can Prepare for Scrutiny of Their Admissions Policies;
Trump May Find No Easy Targets if He Attacks Race in Admissions; Will Anyone Investigate Legacy Admissions;
DeVos Ending Effort To Consolidate Student Loan Servicers; Bipartisan Bill Would Bar ED From Selecting Single Servicer;
Private Colleges Push For Antitrust Law Exemption To Discuss Tuition, Discounts;
Texas' Campus Carry Law To Go Into Effect For Community Colleges;
When a Bid for Tenure Fails, This Is What Bouncing Back Looks Like;