Russian cyber attacks 'major threat' to US

Russian cyber attacks pose a "major threat" to the United States, top US intelligence officials have told a congressional hearing.

Saudi coalition attack on Yemen funeral 'based on bad information'

A Saudi-led coalition attacked a funeral in Yemen after receiving incorrect information that armed Houthi leaders were in the area, an investigative body set-up by the coalition has said.

Brazil detects Islamic State radical messages ahead of Olympics

Authorities in this year's Olympic host Brazil detected users exchanging messages in Portuguese linked to the Islamic State extremist group in an online web forum, intelligence services said Friday.

Γιούνκερ: Δεν έχω ευθύνη για το θέμα με τις υπηρεσίες πληροφοριών . Προκάλεσε τη βουλή να προχωρήσει σε ψήφο δυσπιστίας

Ο πρωθυπουργός του Λουξεμβούργου, Ζαν-Κλοντ Γιούνκερ, αρνήθηκε ότι έχει προσωπικές ευθύνες για τα σφάλματα ή τις παραλείψεις της υπηρεσίας πληροφοριών της χώρας μιλώντας σε μια συνεδρίαση της βουλής της χώρας του απόψε.

«Με κάθε καλή πρόθεση δεν μπορώ. . . να αναγνωρίσω ότι έχω προσωπική ευθύνη», είπε ο Γιούνκερ, στο αποκορύφωμα μιας ομιλίας που διήρκεσε σχεδόν δύο ώρες, απαντώντας σημείο προς σημείο σε όλες τις εις βάρος του αιτιάσεις που προέκυψαν από την έρευνα μιας επιτροπής της βουλής του Μεγάλου Δουκάτου.

Putin: If Snowden wants to stay in Russia, he must stop harming U.S.

Snowden applied for political asylum in Russia, source says; Russian president assures that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is not a 'Russian agent.'....

President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia would not hand former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden over to the United States but that if Snowden wants to stay in Russia he "must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners." 

A source in the Russian immigration said Monday that Snowden has applied for political asylum in Russia.
Snowden "is not a Russian agent", Putin said, repeating that Russian intelligence services were not working with the fugitive American, who is believed to remain in the transit area at a Moscow airport eight days after arriving from Hong Kong. He said Snowden should choose his final destination and go there. 

Human intelligence is declining according to Stanford geneticist

Ever can’t help but think you’re surrounded by idiots? A leading scientist at Stanford University thinks he has the answer, and the bad news is things aren’t likely to get any better.
Dr. Gerald Crabtree, a geneticist at Stanford, has published a study that he conducted to try and identify the progression of modern man’s intelligence. As it turns out, however, Dr. Crabtree’s research led him to believe that the collective mind of mankind has been on more or a less a downhill trajectory for quite some time.
According to his research, published in two parts starting with last year’s ‘Our fragile intellect. Part I,’ Dr. Crabtree thinks unavoidable changes in the genetic make-up coupled with modern technological advances has left humans, well, kind of stupid. He has recently published his follow-up analysis, and in it explains that of the roughly 5,000 genes he considered the basis for human intelligence, a number of mutations over the years has forced modern man to be only a portion as bright as his ancestors.