There has been a tectonic shift in the United States approach to Assad, Russia continues to call out Turkey, Saudi Arabia turns up the heat with Iran & the US is selling billions in arms.

Plus the NSA gets caught spying on members of Congress & we try to make sense of the supposed latest cyber scare.

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• Last year, President Obama was the number one weapons dealer in the world | Rare
• Naked man wearing Ronald Reagan mask peeps through window, terrifies neighbourhood – Trending – CBC News
• You Know Less Than You Think About Guns – Reason.com
• Obama wipes away tears as he calls for new gun measures – POLITICO
• New gun control rule: Some mentally ill patients can be reported by doctor to FBI – POLITICO
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• Dutch government backs strong encryption, condemns backdoors
• Cyber Terrorists Can’t Cyber — Medium
• Terror recruitment video has Trump excerpt – CNN.com
• How does the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 change the Internet surveillance laws? – The Washington Post
• U.S. Spy Net on Israel Snares Congress – WSJ
• RSF annual round-up: 110 journalists killed in 2015 – Reporters Without Borders
• 10 Over The Counter Drugs That Will Get You Higher Than Marijuana
• ‘How do you buy $7 billion of stuff you don’t need?’ – POLITICO
• China pours more scorn on French journalist being forced out
• Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance | WIRED
• ISIS group Al-Khansaa Brigade: mum killed for breastfeeding
• Propaganda Games: Sesame Credit – The True Danger of Gamification – Extra Credits – YouTube
• This Christmas, Tune It All Out | Rolling Stone
• U.S. Foreign Arms Deals Increased Nearly $10 Billion in 2014 – The New York Times
• Russia Counts 12,000 Turkey-Bound Oil Trucks from Iraq & Syria Washington’s Blog
• Just Before Passing Surveillance Expansion, Lawmakers Partied With Pro-CISA Lobbyists
• ‘Totally unacceptable’: State knew thousands of inmates released in error | The Seattle Times
• Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer
• Researchers Solve Juniper Backdoor Mystery; Signs Point to NSA | WIRED
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The Trans Pacific Partnership, Obama’s big legacy making deal is signed. Early details about how it handles copyright law, the pharma industry & labor have been leaked. We dig into how the TPP will impact online intellectual property & consumers.

Plus deeper look at Russia’s involvement in Syria, a high note & much more!

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• U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria Into Proxy War With Russia – The New York Times

CIA Weapons now flooding into Syria since Russian support began.

The American-made TOW antitank missiles began arriving in the region in 2013, through a covert program run by the United States, Saudi Arabia and other allies to help certain C.I.A.-vetted insurgent groups battle the Syrian government.
The weapons are delivered to the field by American allies, but the United States approves their destination. That suggests that the newly steady battlefield supply has at least tacit American approval, now that Russian air power is backing President Bashar al-Assad.
“By bombing us, Russia is bombing the 13 ‘Friends of Syria’ countries,” he said, referring to the group of the United States and its allies that called for the ouster of Mr. Assad after his crackdown on political protests in 2011.

The C.I.A. program that delivered the TOWs (an acronym for tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided missiles) is separate from — and significantly larger than — the failed $500 million Pentagon program that was canceled last week after it trained only a handful of fighters. That was unsuccessful largely because few recruits would agree to its goal of fighting only the militant Islamic State and not Mr. Assad.

Rebel commanders scoffed when asked about reports of the delivery of 500 TOWs from Saudi Arabia, saying it was an insignificant number compared with what is available. Saudi Arabia in 2013 ordered more than 13,000 of them. Given that American weapons contracts require disclosure of the “end user,” insurgents said they were being delivered with Washington’s approval.

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• Dutch Safety Board simulates MH17 being hit by BUK missile – YouTube
• Dutch Safety Board MH17 final report (FULL VIDEO) – YouTube

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Researchers discover a deep flaw in the way cellular networks interconnect, you won’t believe the scope of information they can obtain. Many Git users are getting bit by a bad bug & controlling robot arms with your mind is now a reality.

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Researchers Discover SS7 Flaw, Allowing Total Access To Any Cell Phone, Anywhere

Researchers discovered security flaws in SS7 that allow listening to private phone calls and intercepting text messages on a potentially massive scale — even when cellular networks are using the most advanced encryption now available. The flaws, to be reported at a hacker conference in Hamburg this month, are actually functions built into SS7 for other purposes — such as keeping calls connected as users speed down highways, switching from cell tower to cell tower — that hackers can repurpose for surveillance because of the lax security on the network. It is thought that these flaws were used for bugging German Chancellor Angela’s Merkel’s phone.

Those skilled at the housekeeping functions built into SS7 can locate callers anywhere in the world, listen to calls as they happen or record hundreds of encrypted calls and texts at a time for later decryption (Google translation of German original). There is also potential to defraud users and cellular carriers by using SS7 functions, the researchers say. This is another result of security being considered only after the fact, as opposed to being part of the initial design.

• Hackers Can Read Your Texts Thanks to Huge Security Flaw

Critical Git Security Vulnerability Announced

Github has announced a security vulnerability and has encouraged users to update their Git clients as soon as possible. The blog post reads in part: “A critical Git security vulnerability has been announced today, affecting all versions of the official Git client and all related software that interacts with Git repositories, including GitHub for Windows and GitHub for Mac. Because this is a client-side only vulnerability, github.com and GitHub Enterprise are not directly affected. The vulnerability concerns Git and Git-compatible clients that access Git repositories in a case-insensitive or case-normalizing filesystem. An attacker can craft a malicious Git tree that will cause Git to overwrite its own .git/config file when cloning or checking out a repository, leading to arbitrary command execution in the client machine. Git clients running on OS X (HFS+) or any version of Microsoft Windows (NTFS, FAT) are exploitable through this vulnerability. Linux clients are not affected if they run in a case-sensitive filesystem….Updated versions of GitHub for Windows and GitHub for Mac are available for immediate download, and both contain the security fix on the Desktop application itself and on the bundled version of the Git command-line client.”

Double amputee controls two robotic arms with his mind

The project’s researchers have been developing these Modular Prosthetic Limbs (MPL) over the past decade, but they say Baugh is the “first bilateral shoulder-level amputee” to wear two MPLs at the same time. Unlike Jan Scheuermann who controlled a robotic arm with a pair of neural implants, though, Baugh had to undergo a procedure called targeted muscle reinnervation, which reassigned the nerves that once controlled his arms and hands.

Once that was done, the team recorded the patterns his brain makes for each muscle he moves, and then they had him control virtual arms to prepare for the real things.

First Ubuntu Phone Will Launch In Europe This February

For its first Ubuntu Phone Bq is launching a repurposed version of the its popular Aquaris e4.5 handset preloaded with Ubuntu for Phones.

Unlike the version that developers can (and have) been downloading and flashing to their Nexus devices, the commercial version of Ubuntu on phones will ship with a number of differences in software, including new ‘Aggregator Scopes‘ and support for paid content.

• 4.5-inch screen (qHD resolution @ 540×960)
• 1.3 GHz Quad Core ARM Cortex A7 (MediaTek)
• Mali 400 GPU @ 500 MHz (MediaTek)
• 8GB eMMC Storage
• 1GB RAM
• 2150 mAh Battery
• Dual micro-SIM

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We catch up on some stories that need our attention, then discuss the absolute hypocrisy of the Obama administration sending arms to “moderate” Syrian rebels only a week after Obama publicly said the fight was a lost cause.

Plus we’re one week out from Washington’s first pot stores opening their doors, an update on the situation in Iraq, and much more!

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The Slow Death of Privacy

Tomorrow at 9am ET, I'm doing a @reddit_AMA with @MazMHussain about our new NSA story to be published tonight at midnight on @the_intercept

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 30, 2014

Snarky Lawmaker Reminds Former NSA Chief That Selling State Secrets Is Illegal | Threat Level | WIRED

To capitalize on his recent departure from military intelligence—Alexander resigned in March following months of revelations by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden—the general is offering his security expertise to the banking industry for the fire sale price of $600,000 per month after first asking for $1 million. There are threats everywhere, Alexander warns, and “It would be devastating if one of our major banks was hit, because they’re so interconnected.”

That may be, but Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Florida) is suspicious that Alexander has anything useful to offer at that price—unless, that is, he’s peddling national security secrets.

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Back in Iraq

U.S. sending more troops to Iraq – CNN.com

The new troops will provide security for the U.S. Embassy, the Baghdad airport and other facilities in Iraq, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said.

The deployment includes “a detachment of helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles, which will bolster airfield and travel route security,” Kirby said in a written statement.

The 300 troops are in addition to 300 U.S. advisers who will help to train Iraq’s security forces.

• Sunni militants declare Islamic state in Iraq and Syria | Fox News

In an audio statement posted online that coincided with the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a spokesman for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), announced that the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was the “caliph,” or leader, of a state whose territory extended from the city of Aleppo in northwestern Syria, to Diyala province in northeastern Iraq.

The spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, described al-Baghdadi as “the imam and khalifah (caliph) for the Muslims everywhere.” He also said that with the establishment of the caliphate, the group was changing its name to just the Islamic State, dropping the mention of Iraq and the Levant.

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Marijuana shortages could have Washington stores, customers wondering: Where’s the weed?

Oliver is the chief scientist at Analytical 360 in Yakima, the only lab that has been certified to test the heavily taxed marijuana that will wind up on store shelves next month. So far, just two licensed growers have turned in samples for testing, with another due to turn in a small batch next week, he told The Associated Press on Saturday.

“There’s such a small stream of samples coming through,” he said. “There’s going to be some long lines and some high prices.”

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