The “Torture Works” Story

ISIS

2015-03-01 / www.emptywheel.net

After Adam Goldman exposed the identity of Jihadi John, ISIL’s executioner, as Mohammed Emwazi, it set off an interesting response in Britain.

CagePrisoners — the advocacy organization for detainees — revealed details of how MI5 had tried to recruit Emwazi and, ...

Intelligence: Tech Is Not Always The Answer

2015-02-13 / www.strategypage.com

While the U.S. Air Force has a well-deserved reputation of being the most high-tech service and extremely successful at its job. This includes gaining (since 1945) and maintaining (ever since) air supremacy wherever ...

The Power to Decide

2015-01-22 / www.technologyreview.com

What’s the point of all that data, anyway? It’s to make decisions.

Back in 1956, an engineer and a mathematician, William Fair and Earl Isaac, pooled $800 to start a company. Their idea: a score to handicap whether a borrower would ...