01/06/18 Overnight links

Motherboard: Border guards looked through nearly 60% more electronic devices in 2017 than in 2016

EFF: State child care laws should not require teenage kids to submit biometric data to the FBI

Washington Post: Jeff Sessions says there’s a “staggering increase in homicides”.  The data disagrees.

Gizmodo: Man’s YouTube video of white noise hit with five copyright claims

CNN: The security of pretty much every computer on the planet has gotten a lot worse

Antiwar.com: Ron Paul on the Iran protests: Convenient pretext to kill nuclear deal?

The Intercept: Texas Police Chief hands over undocumented smuggling victims to local organizations, shunning ICE

The American Conservative: How Europe built its own funeral pyre, then leapt in

Also The American Conservative: How the Military-Industrial Complex hurts service member safety

FEE: There is no proof that mandatory rehab helps addicts

Forbes: How likely is it that bitcoin will hit $500k in three years?

NewScientist: How to protect yourself from the Meltdown and Spectre bugs

VentureBeat: If we create AI, will we know it?

Important history right here: Quartz: It took Rubik’s Cube creator a month to solve his own puzzle

Author: S. Smith