DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. drone strike has hit a militant compound near the Afghan border, killing three militants. Two officials say the unmanned drone fired two missiles at the Ghazni compound of the militant Haqqani network's commander Abdur Rasheed early in the morning on Thursday. The network is affiliated with the Taliban. They said it's unclear if Rasheed was at the compound located on the Pesho Ghar mountain in the Kurram tribal region's Ghuzgari area. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone strike on Thursday targeted a hideout of the Haqqani militant network along Pakistan's mountainous border with Afghanistan, killing four people, officials said.

A large tiger shark was seen Friday near the South Beach in Miami, Florida, swimming dangerously close to beachgoers, who had no idea a predator was floating inches away from them. Photographer Kenny Melendez was flying his drone above the South Beach waters at 8 a.m. EST on Nov. 24, hoping to get some scenic shots and show his cousin how drones work, when he noticed a sizeable shadow near a swimmer, Miami Herald reported. That is when he panned the drone camera close to the water, hovering it just 15 feet above the surface. As it turned out, the shadow was an enormous tiger shark that was swimming really close to the sandy beach of Miami. Melendez decided to let his drone follow the shark around for the next 10 minutes, as it swam up to unsuspecting beachgoers wading in the waters.

Amazon could be developing drones that disintegrate mid-air if they get into difficulty to protect people on the ground. The idea is outlined in a patent that describes how a malfunctioning drone could rip itself apart automatically during a delivery. Conditions that could cause the drone to resort to such drastic Mission Impossible-style measures include extreme heat, cold, wind, rain or high pressure systems. First filed back in June 2016, the patent has a release system that includes'attachment mechanisms, such as clips, latches, hooks'. The idea is outlined in a patent that describes how a malfunctioning drone could rip itself apart automatically halfway through its delivery.

For the NASA drones to successfully fly around a course, the devices need to know where they are in space. For that, they use two onboard cameras--one that looks forward, and the other, down, a common setup for mid-to-high-level consumer drones. Drones that fly around outside can make use of GPS, but that's not an option when flying indoors, in a complex environment, at speeds of 30 to 40 mph. The drone also needs an onboard three-dimensional map of the course at hand, so it can match what it sees with the cameras to that internal map and know where it actually is. That process is known as relocalization.

GDPR will be the Y2K of 2018: Companies are publicly touting their GDPR readiness, but behind closed doors, I expect a lot of uncertainty about the ability to comply with these new and incredibly strict guidelines. While GDPR won't result in the same public hysteria as Y2K, IT practitioners who were around at the turn of the century will feel a bit of déjà vu. Healthcare has become a high value target as technology in this industry is widely disparate, but is being connected over networks that are still catching up from a security perspective. Brands have been quick to jump on the IoT bandwagon, but they will have their hands full. In 2017, we saw KRACK and BlueBorne exploit WiFi and bluetooth, opening fresh holes in our already battered perimeters.

A new short film from the Campaign Against Killer Robots warns of a future where weaponised flying drones target and assassinate certain members of the public, using facial recognition technology to identify them. Is this a realistic threat that could rightly spur an effective ban on the technology? Or is it an overblown portrayal designed to scare governments into taking simplistic, unnecessary and ultimately futile action? We asked two academics for their expert opinions. A new short film from the Campaign Against Killer Robots warns of a future where weaponised flying drones target and assassinate certain members of the public, using facial recognition technology to identify them.

The drones already have been used to take photos and measurements several times this year including at a number of car crash scenes. State police will discuss their usefulness in investigations and demonstrate how the drones can be used.

Federal and local laws prohibit flying drones near football games, and authorities are examining additional ways to prevent the unmanned aircraft from hovering over crowds of tens of thousands of people after the flights Sunday, Santa Clara police Lt. Dan Moreno said. He declined to discuss the security measures being considered.

Relatives of two people killed in the strike sued the United States, claiming it was the actions of the U.S. that killed their family members, who were innocent civilians. Faisal bin Ali Jaber filed a wrongful death lawsuit against then-President Barack Obama in 2015. His nephew Waleed, 26, and brother-in-law Salem, a father of seven, were killed in the attack along with three others, Al Jazeera reported.