Charlie Hebdo cartoon on dead Syrian child sparks anger AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at January 13, 2016, 11:58 pm)

Illustration showing Aylan Kurdi as a sexual molester in Germany is racist, social media users say.
Sweden stands firm on probe of Palestinian deaths AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at January 13, 2016, 11:58 pm)

Israel says foreign minister has a "twisted view of reality" after she called for an investigation into killings.
SlemBunk trying to become a slam dunk banking trojan: FireEye (SC Magazine) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at January 13, 2016, 11:57 pm)

Fresno police use 'threat scores' to surveil public (SC Magazine) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at January 13, 2016, 11:57 pm)

Alfred Poor Talks About Health Wearables at CES (Video) Slashdotby Roblimo on medicine at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at January 13, 2016, 11:32 pm)

The biggest shift in wearables that Alfred Poor saw at CES was from consumer wearables to wearables designed to serve corporate goals, especially cutting health care costs. He says that when it comes to fitness and other health-related wearables, "consumer is the past and business is the future."

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Power plants, utilities 'just hanging right off the internet's tubes' (The Register) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at January 13, 2016, 11:27 pm)

Commercial drones are threat to UK civilians (SC Magazine) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at January 13, 2016, 11:27 pm)

SlemBunk banking trojan found to be evolving, harder to spot: FireEye (SC Magazine) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at January 13, 2016, 11:27 pm)

NASA Forms New Planetary Defense Office To Manage Asteroid Threats Slashdotby samzenpus on space at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at January 13, 2016, 11:02 pm)

An anonymous reader writes: NASA has set up a new Planetary Defense Coordination Office to detect and track near-Earth objects. CNN reports: "The department, which includes the position of Planetary Defense Officer, is managed by the Planetary Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. And its mission includes the early detection of potentially hazardous objects (PHOs) — asteroids and comets which get within 0.05 Astronomical Units of Earth's orbit around the sun (7.5 million kilometers) and are large enough, greater than around 30 — 50 meters (98 — 164 feet), to reach the Earth's surface." Bruce Willis had no comment on his level of involvement in the new agency.

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Carbon emissions 'postpone ice age' BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition(cached at January 13, 2016, 10:58 pm)

The next ice age may have been delayed by more than 50,000 years because of the greenhouse gases put in the atmosphere by humans, scientists in Germany say.
Red-flagging Canada's children on no-fly lists AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at January 13, 2016, 10:58 pm)

Nearly two dozen kids deemed flight security threats - with little recourse to remove the highly secretive designation.
What is Ankara's plan to deal with ISIL threat? AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at January 13, 2016, 10:58 pm)

Turkish police make dozens of arrests in nationwide raids following the killing of 10 tourists.
A Cyber Security Pro Shares The Best Tricks For Cloud-Based Threat Scanning (Forbes) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at January 13, 2016, 10:58 pm)

Bush shows teeth; says Clinton 'didn't take cybersecurity seriously' (SC Magazine) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at January 13, 2016, 10:58 pm)

Mischiefmaker invades US spyboss's Verizon broadband account (The Register) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at January 13, 2016, 10:58 pm)