The CIA once trained cats to be Cold War spies

The 1960s were a wild time for the CIA. When they weren’t dosing each other with acid or trying to use exploding cigars to kill Fidel Castro, the Agency’s staff were exploring other novel approaches ...
Dot Physics on MSN

Pi Day project: Best rational approximation of pi using Python

rational approximations of π (pi) using Python. Learn how fractions can closely approximate irrational numbers and discover why famous ratios like 22/7 and 355/113 work so well. We’ll use Python to ...
The New York Times

C.I.A. Intelligence Helped Lead Mexican Authorities to ‘El Mencho’

Mexican officials said they had found the elusive cartel kingpin by tracking a romantic partner. The C.I.A. provided some intelligence critical to the operation. By Julian E. Barnes Eric Schmitt and ...
Fox News

CIA retracts, revises 19 past intelligence assessments deemed politically biased

The CIA on Friday said that director John Ratcliffe had ordered the retraction or "substantive revision" of 19 intelligence assessments over the past decade that were deemed to be politically biased.
CNN

CIA retracts intel reports that agency says failed to meet standards for political bias

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has ordered the retraction or “substantive revision” of 19 of the agency’s intelligence products after a review determined they failed to meet standards for analytic ...
The New York Times

C.I.A. Retracts Reports Flagged for Bias

Former officials said the documents were not examples of shoddy work and simply reflected the priorities of past administrations. By Julian E. Barnes Reporting from Washington The Central Intelligence ...
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CIA found the Ark of the Covenant by using psychics, declassified files claim

Declassified CIA documents claim that the mystical Ark of the Covenant was located by a psychic decades ago in the Middle East as part of one of the intelligence agency’s experimental, secret projects ...
Microsoft

Project Silica’s advances in glass storage technology

Long-term preservation of digital information has long challenged archivists and datacenters, as magnetic tapes and hard drives degrade within decades. Existing archival storage solutions have limited ...
The Hill

Mace asks CIA director for documents agency may have on Epstein, Maxwell

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) requested that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) release “any and all” documents it may possess related to convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in ...
GitHub

A collection of simple python mini projects to enhance your Python skills.

Select an issue and ask to be assigned to it. Check existing scripts in the projects directory. Star this repository. On the python-mini-projects repo page, click the Fork button. Clone your forked ...
Reuters

CIA, Pentagon reviewed secret 'Havana syndrome' device in Norway, Washington Post reports

Feb 14 (Reuters) - U.S. officials investigated a previously unreported experiment in Norway in which a government scientist tested a microwave device and developed neurological symptoms similar to ...