With frequent suicide bombings and assaults on Somalia's hotels and military targets, the armed group al-Shabab continues to threaten stability in the war-ravaged country. The emergence of fighters pledging allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group can only make things worse. After vowing to target "radical Islamic terrorism", US President Donald Trump's administration plans to pursue wider military involvement in Somalia as current strategies, including drone attacks, are not enough, security experts say. Recommendations by the Pentagon sent to the White House would allow US special forces to increase assistance to the Somali National Army and give the US military greater flexibility to launch more preemptive air strikes. "The concern in Washington has been mounting for some time now. The Trump administration is simply reiterating what has been policy, with slight variations," said Rashid Abdi, a Horn of Africa analyst with the International Crisis Group.

Use of Machine Learning (ML) is a hot topic in cybersecurity, one which will undoubtedly shape the industry for years to come. To see evidence of this we'd have to look no further than the booths at this most recent RSA Security Conference, where ML was promised as a solution for corporate cybersecurity problems. But why exactly will ML play such a prominent role, and how could it prove useful? Oddly enough the answer comes from the recent victory of ML in a game of poker. A competition took place in Pittsburgh last month that matched top poker players against a Machine Learning system called Libratus.

Uber's self-driving cars might be back in California, three months after they were pulled off the streets for refusing to apply for a permit. "These cars are legally registered and are being driven manually. We are taking steps to complete our application to apply for a DMV testing permit," an Uber spokeswoman told TechCrunch on Thursday. "As we said in December, Uber remains 100 percent committed to California." In December, Uber's pilot program on self-driving vehicles was taken off San Francisco streets over failure to comply with the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

It may sound strange, but a number of prominent people have been asking this question lately. As fears about the impact of automation grow, calls for a "robot tax" are gaining momentum. Earlier this month, the European parliament considered one for the EU. Benoît Hamon, the French Socialist party presidential candidate who is often described as his country's Bernie Sanders, has put a robot tax in his platform. Even Bill Gates recently endorsed the idea.

Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe recently signed a law allowing robots to deliver goods in the state, according to Engadget. Starting July 1, Virginia citizens could see robots using the streets to deliver purchases to local residents. The bots are running autonomously, but Virginia is requiring Starship Technologies, the developers, to monitor them remotely. They also must have a max speed of 10mph and cannot weigh more than 50lbs, delivery included. Virginia is allowing local councils to put regulations on the bots as well.

A routine Military drone test quickly turned into something more bizarre, after the missing aircraft mysteriously turned up ten days later over 600 miles away. After it failed to return to base, the Army presumed that it had quickly been destroyed until a hiker found it crashed into a tree in Evergreen, Colorado. While the story doesn't sound that odd on the surface, the $1.5 million unmanned drone's range is meant to be limited to within 77 miles of its C-band line-of-sight data link. With the rogue RQ-7 traveling over 8 times that distance, investigators are still struggling to explain its incredible journey. Data recovered from the free-spirited drone showed it reached an altitude of 12,000 feet, enabling it to soar over the Rocky Mountains.

A worker picks substrate-grown strawberries at the Driscoll's Inc. facility on the McGrath Ranch in Watsonville, Calif., on Sept. 19, 2016. Buoyed by an inexpensive migrant workforce, California has been the United States' agricultural mainstay for nearly a century, currently producing about 60 percent of the nation's fresh produce. But as the state's minimum wage approaches $15 an hour and competition from a growing Mexican economy mounts, producers face unprecedented operating costs and a workforce that has dropped by 60 percent since the 1990s. Add to this President Trump's moves to restrict immigration, which threatens to significantly curtail the sector's already depressed labor supply. Leading California-based growers like Driscoll's Berries and Taylor Farms are feeling the immediacy of Trump's executive orders, as millions of dollars of specialty crops are growing right now that will require a workforce to pick them at the end of the season. Together they spend over a billion dollars on labor each year.

Al-Zawahri is believed to be based in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, but many of the group's senior figures are believed to have moved to Syria, taking advantage of the country's civil war to establish a presence -- though many of them have subsequently been killed in U.S. drone strikes the past year. An al-Qaida-linked group, Fatah al-Sham, is one of the strongest forces among the rebels fighting to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad.

From to'malware on steroids' to hacks that cause driverless cars to make dangerous decisions on the road, artificial intelligence could soon threaten humanity in ways that once existed only in science fiction. Experts have gathered to discuss the possible nightmare scenarios that could stem from the rise of AI in the near future. The workshop focused on worst-case situations that fall within the realm of possibility, based on current technologies or those that could emerge in the next five to 25 years – including rogue cyber-weapons and stock market manipulation. From to'malware on steroids' to hacks that cause driverless cars to recklessly break the rules of the road, artificial intelligence could soon threaten humanity in ways that once existed only in science fiction. In a new article for Wired, researchers at Cambridge University's Study of Existential Risk (CESR) have come up with a list of 10 threats that may some day trigger an apocalypse.

Artificial intelligence is slowly infiltrating every aspect of our world, from business, to education, to the government, to our homes. While the rise of AI has made life more efficient in many ways, it's not immune to the occasional blunder. Humans aren't perfect, and neither are machines. Related: Is Your Startup Ready for Artificial Intelligence? While AI is meant to solve our problems, it sometimes creates new ones.