03/08/18 Overnight News & Commentary

WIRED: The leaked NSA spy tool that hacked the world

Ars Technica: FBI again calls for magical solution to break into encrypted phones

Reuters: Florida sheriff’s office could be sued over deputy’s inaction: experts

ABC News: Drone tech: What happens when good technology falls into the wrong hands?

Mises: Why libertarians should shrug off memo mania

Washington Examiner: Don’t give the IRS personal information it doesn’t need

Forbes: The faces behind China’s omniscient video surveillance technology Ed: They look very proud of themselves

Activist Post: How China’s social credit score will shape the “perfect” citizen

and More from The Sun: Inside China’s creepy ‘social credit’ system that analyzes internet shopping and social media use in order to blacklist ‘lazy’ or wasteful citizens

Consortium News: Record-high Afghanistan opium crop signals violent year for U.S. forces

Washington Post: Pentagon kicks off a winner-take-all among tech companies for multi-billion dollar cloud-computing contract

TimesHigherEd: Academics who cooperate with intelligence agencies face moral dillema

National Review: How an Obama-era precedent may doom California’s effort to make itself a “sanctuary state”

FEE: James Damore and the ‘fascist’ slur

Reason: Free yourself from the soft tyranny of nutrition studies

The Verge: NASA’s Juno spacecraft finds deep winds and patterned cyclones on Jupiter

Author: S. Smith