Do you know what is common between San Bernardino's shooting spree and the terrorist attacks in Paris last month? Jillennials, Jihadis who are Millennials. We mine data worldwide, a lot of it, a ton of it, every day and every night, and we do this for a living at PredictifyMe. We have partnership with the United Nations to protect school-goers in Pakistan, Nigeria, Sudan and Lebanon using our proprietary software SecureSim and Soothsayer . When the Paris attacks unfolded, we asked ourselves (and our database), how can we use data sciences to prevent something like this from ever happening again. Can we find out what factors influence an otherwise ordinary citizen to become radicalized?

The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Wednesday announced 23 violations after investigating the death at the Ajin USA plant in Cusseta, Ala., about 90 miles southwest of Atlanta, the AP reports. Regina Allen Elsea, 20, was killed June 18, two weeks before her planned wedding day, OSHA said in a statement. The assembly line had stopped, and Elsea entered a robotic station to clear a sensor fault. "The robot restarted abruptly, crushing the young woman inside the machine," OSHA said. OSHA said Ajin failed to have procedures to prevent machinery from starting up during maintenance, among other violations.

A standoff between Uber and the State of California became more serious on Friday when Uber rejected a demand to get permits for its self-driving car program and the state fired back with a threat of legal action. The spat began earlier this week when Uber launched a fleet of self-driving cars in San Francisco. The company had not obtained autonomous driving permits for the cars, and California's Department of Motor Vehicles asked the company to stop the service until they were issued. "We respectfully disagree with the California Department of Motor Vehicles legal interpretation of today's autonomous regulations, in particular that Uber needs a testing permit to operate its self-driving cars in San Francisco," Anthony Levandowski, vice president of Uber's advanced technologies group, told reporters. He said Uber believes the technology in its self-driving cars is akin to the autonomous mode in a Tesla.

Uber says it intends to continue a self-driving car test program in San Francisco in defiance of warnings from California's Department of Motor Vehicles that it faces legal consequences for not getting a $150 permit for the project. The state Attorney General's office joined the DMV late Friday in demanding that Uber halt the program immediately. In a letter to Anthony Levandowski, head of the ride-hailing company's automated vehicle team, the state's highest legal office asked Uber to "adhere to California law and immediately remove its'self-driving' vehicles from the state's roadways until Uber complies with all applicable statutes and regulations." Should it fail to do so, "the Attorney General will seek injunctive and other appropriate relief," said Miguel Neri and Fiel Tigno, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General. State rules on autonomous vehicles "don't apply" to Uber's program, Levandowski said in a conference call earlier Friday.

SAN FRANCISCO ― Uber's self-driving cars will continue to ply the streets of San Francisco despite growing threats of legal action by state officials if the company refuses to obtain proper permits. Uber plans to defy the California Department of Motor Vehicles demand that it seek autonomous vehicle permits, because company executive Anthony Levandowski said Friday that the cars are not truly driverless and therefore not subject to the regulations. "It's hard to understand why the DMV would seek to require self-driving Ubers to get permits when it accepts that Tesla's autopilot technology does not need them," Levandowski said on a conference call with reporters. "We asked for clarification as to specifically what is different about our tech from the DMV, but have not received it.' The state attorney general's office responded with its own threat against the tech giant on Friday, saying the office will intervene if Uber fails to obey the regulations.

Russian hackers have been implicated by the CIA and FBI in an audacious effort to sway voters in the recent U.S. presidential election in the direction of Donald Trump. Like other key events in U.S. history, such as Pearl Harbor or 9/11, the revelation of the Russian cyber intrusion is a wake-up call. It signals that a new "code war" is underway through the weaponization of information. The irony can't be missed, of course, that the CIA, which itself sought to influence democratic elections around the world from the earliest days of the Cold War, is calling out the Russians. Former CIA director Bill Colby once regaled me with tales of his years as a young operative in Italy, paying off journalists and channeling laundered funds to the Christian Democrats in elections during the 1950s to (successfully) defeat the Communists at the polls.

Uber will continue providing people with rides aboard its San Francisco fleet of self-driving cars, its technical chief said today, defying state regulators who have told the startup to put the cars in park. The intransigent move is sure to bring a rebuke from lawmakers who are threatening to sue. The legal fight started Wednesday morning when the ridesharing giant opened its fleet of autonomous Volvos to riders throughout the city. It did so without applying for a permit to test autonomous technology, arguing that California regulations governing the tech apply only to vehicles that don't require a human supervisor. There is always someone at the wheel of an autonomous Uber.

Octavia Butler, who died in 2006, was the author of such visionary science fiction novels as Kindred, The Parable of the Sower, and Dawn. Gerry Canavan, who just published a book-length study of Butler, describes her as one of the greatest writers of her era. "I think you'd put her up there with Philip K. Dick and Le Guin and Delany and these other people who really made an impact on the way that science fiction circulates," Canavan says in Episode 234 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "Especially that mode of literary science fiction that's somewhere in the middle between genre fiction and prize-winning novels, she has to be top two, top three in that list." Butler made headlines this year when fans noted that her 1998 novel The Parable of the Talents features a fascist politician who rises to power by promising to "make America great again."

Debra Wong Yang, a potential candidate to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Trump administration, said that Yang was appointed to California's Central District court in 2002. She was appointed to lead the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of California. Self-driving cars: In the Dec. 16 Business section, an article about Uber's self-driving car program identified Steve Beck as co-founder of the management consultancy cg42. Beck is the sole founder. If you believe that we have made an error, or you have questions about The Times' journalistic standards and practices, you may contact Deirdre Edgar, readers' representative, by email at readers.representative@latimes.com, by phone at (877) 554-4000, by fax at (213) 237-3535 or by mail at 202 W. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

When we examine and value companies, we use a lens that is more than five hundred years old. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), which dates back to a Venetian Friar who lived in 1500 AD, has long been the determinant of what we how society measures value. According to this now global standard, things and money are valuable assets. People and ideas, and their development, are expenses. This means that investments such as education, healthcare, training, and research actually eat away at value creation.