The Border Evacuation Plan; Sanhedrin Solicits Iran; NK's Preemptive Strike; Google's Widening Heel; Faster Security; Print Bacteria, Make Graphene; and Synthetic Embryos

Israel

Israel has mass evacuation plan in works should war erupt nydailynews

Israel is drawing up contingency plans to evacuate up to a quarter-million civilians from border communities to protect them from attacks from Hamas, Hezbollah or other Islamic militant groups.

Third Temple

Sanhedrin Calls on Israel’s Greatest Enemy to Follow Tradition and Build Third Temple breakingisraelnews

The nascent Sanhedrin has turned a dispute between the Israeli Prime Minister and the Iranian Foreign Minister into an opportunity to invite Israel’s greatest enemy to help build the Third Temple. This offer is not nearly as preposterous as some may think, and has an undeniable precedent the Iranian Minister is quite proud to admit.

North Korea

North Korea doesn't fear US sanctions, is looking into a 'preemptive first strike' of their own businessinsider

North Korea has nothing to fear from any U.S. move to broaden sanctions aimed at cutting it off from the global financial system and will pursue "acceleration" of its nuclear and missile programs, a North Korean envoy told Reuters on Tuesday.

Google

AT&T, other U.S. advertisers quit Google, YouTube over extremist videos usatoday

AT&T, Verizon, Johnson & Johnson and other major U.S. advertisers are pulling hundreds of millions of dollars in business from Google and its video service YouTube despite the Internet giant's pledge this week to keep offensive and extremist content away from ads.

You are not seeing double! The story I included a couple days ago was in the UK...the furor has spread to now include the US.

Research

New brain-inspired cybersecurity system detects 'bad apples' 100 times faster phys.org v

Sandia sandia.gov tested the Neuromorphic Cyber Microscope on its cybertraffic in a demonstration environment. As the "bad apple" patterns got more complex, the state-of-the-art conventional system slowed exponentially, but the Neuromorphic Cyber Microscope kept performing efficiently, said Roger Suppona, a cybersecurity expert at Sandia.

TU Delft researchers using 3D printed bacteria to make graphene-like materials 3ders.org

The secret to the new technique is bacteria—3D printed bacteria, to be precise. The researchers have discovered that bacteria can be deposited in precise lines using a 3D printer to turn graphene oxide—a compound of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen—into a material that closely resembles graphene. The trick is getting these bacteria to “reduce” the graphene oxide, by pulling oxygen atoms off the material as they metabolize. This process of reduction can also be achieved with heat or chemicals, but the researchers say that bacteria is cheaper and more eco-friendly.

Genetics

A New Form of Stem-Cell Engineering Raises Ethical Questions nytimes

As biological research races forward, ethical quandaries are piling up. In a report published Tuesday in the journal eLife, researchers at Harvard Medical School harvard.edu said it was time to ponder a startling new prospect: synthetic embryos.