Yahoo, Watchin' You; Stalled Gender; Killing Wins the Day; Russia is Awesome!; 40 Million Prep for the Bomb; Aleppo is Not the End; Iraq Wants Turkey (Out); U.S. Blasts Israel; Tractoring Around; and Bees Dance Ahola

Privacy

Yahoo 'secretly monitored emails on behalf of the US government' theguardian

The company complied with a classified US government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency (NSA nsa.gov) or FBI fbi.gov, two former employees and a third person who knew about the program told Reuters.

Some surveillance experts said this represents the first known case of a US internet company agreeing to a spy agency’s demand by searching all arriving messages, as opposed to examining stored messages or scanning a small number of accounts in real time.

Athletic Spies; Robot Reporter; Greased Turkey; The Chinese Quad; Cool Clothes; and Bible Drone

Olympics

More Than 1,000 U.S. Spies in Brazil Protecting Rio Olympics nbcnews

In addition, more than a dozen highly trained Navy and Marine Corps commandos from the U.S. Special Operations Command are in Brazil, working with the Brazilian Federal Police and the Brazilian Navy, according to senior military officials.

Iran Doesn't Like Being Told 'No'; Stated Emergency; The UN Vote That Doesn't Count; Not Inclusive - Not Accredited; Hottest Year Ever (maybe); Heritage to the Beginning; Peanut Butter on the Prairie; Invisible, Mystical Dark Matter; Tweet Science; The Breeze Bird; Brat-Bot; and Internet Flight Test

Iran

Iran left with no choice but to confront the US, official warns jpost

Iran's Press TV quoted Larijani nytimes as issuing the warning in light of legislation proposed by US opponents to the Iran nuclear deal to further sanction the Islamic Republic and the UN's first bi-annual report on the deal's implementation released earlier this week which suggested that Iran was not following "the spirit of the deal."

End of Oil Rich; Targeting Target; Inspired Robots; The Civil Rights of the Trans...humanist; Splice Your DNA in Your Spare Time; Russia's Barrel Response; Baghdad Scuffle; and NATO's New 4k Troops on Russia's Border

This weekend we have some longer-form articles on the decline of oil, a push for trans-humanism civil rights, and the accessibility of editing your own DNA in your spare time.

Fuel

There will be pandemonium: The end of the old oil order has already begun (Opinion) salon

It is hard to overstate the significance of the Doha debacle. At the very least, it will perpetuate the low oil prices that have plagued the industry for the past two years, forcing smaller firms into bankruptcy and erasing hundreds of billions of dollars of investments in new production capacity. It may also have obliterated any future prospects for cooperation between OPEC and non-OPEC producers in regulating the market. Most of all, however, it demonstrated that the petroleum-fueled world we’ve known these last decades — with oil demand always thrusting ahead of supply, ensuring steady profits for all major producers — is no more. Replacing it is an anemic, possibly even declining, demand for oil that is likely to force suppliers to fight one another for ever-diminishing market shares.