WISCONSIN MAYBE THE END ALL FOR THE TRUMP FOR POTUS 2016 ROLL AS THE WISCONSIN NICE MOTTO DOES NOT JIBE WITH THE NY IN YOUR FACE STYLE OF BUSINESS AS CRUZ LEADS 40% TO TRUMPS 30% TO KASICH 21% - AS KASICH PLAYS THE SPOILER FOR HISTORICAL PURPOSES

Wisconsin’s Republican primary election on Tuesday might turn out to be Donald Trump’s “Waterloo.” Okay, that’s not a perfect example; a loss wouldn’t stop him in his tracks, but a defeat in the Badger State would probably stop him from clinching the Republican nomination.
There are many variables, but the simplified explanation goes like this: if Mr Trump loses Wisconsin and if Ted Cruz picks up a good share of  delegates in California’s June 7 primary, then - assuming everyone wins the other states they are expected to win, based on past performances - Mr Trump will fall short of the 1,237 delegates needed to avoid a contested convention.

Now, on the surface, Wisconsin might seem tailor-made for Mr Trump. Unlike Texas and Ohio (the home states of Ted Cruz and John Kasich, respectively), none of his opponents hail from there. And unlike Utah, where he lost badly, Wisconsin is not a caucus, nor does it have a large percentage of Mormons.
Moreover, Mr Trump tends to do well in “rust belt” states where plenty of non-college educated white voters (who do not happen to be Christian evangelicals) reside. What is more, Democrats and independents can vote in the Wisconsin primary, which tends to help Mr Trump.
But Mr Trump appears to be on the verge of getting trounced in the state. According to a recent Marquette University Law School poll (which is considered the gold standard in Wisconsin surveys), Mr Cruz has 40 per cent of the vote, Donald Trump has 30 per cent, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich is at 21 per cent.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/02/why-losing-wisconsin-could-cost-donald-trump-the-republican-nomi/

CRUISE MISSILES WITH AN ELCTROMAGNETIC PULSE PUNCH TO KNOCK OUT COMMERCIAL ELECTRONICS IN ITS WAKE AS IT FLIES ACROSS ENEMIES WITH COMMERCIAL RATED COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE

THE United States Air Force wants to fry your phone. And your computer. And your car. It’s investing millions into modifying missiles into weaponised microwave ovens.

The devastating power of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) has long been associated with nuclear war.

It’s a flash of raw electromagnetic energy through the atmosphere that fuses delicate electronics into irreparable smoking scrap.

The problem has always been the nuclear bit: Using one to fry a phone network would have been overkill.

Not to mention a trigger for an almost inevitable ‘mutually assured destruction’ escalation.

So the US military has been seeking less lethal ways of sowing confusion among its enemies.

Enter flying microwave ovens.

The idea was tested as far back as 2012 when Boeing flew an EMP missile off a B-52.......

.......Everything from tanks to military-grade walkie-talkies are supposed to be ‘hardened’ against such an attack.

Where such a weapon would prove useful, however, is an arena such as Syria and Iraq.

Islamic State’s communications network relies upon modern digital technology, such as smart phones.

One of these cruise missiles flying back-and-forth over its self-declared capital of Raqqa, for example, could critically disable the jihadists’ command-and-control networks.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/us-air-force-modifies-cruise-missiles-to-carry-electromagnetic-pulse-generators--to-destroy-electronics-from-a-distance/news-story/f1898c65dd851fe23f2fca578db83b2b

THE FBI MAY HAVE HACKED FINALLY THE SYED RIZWAN FAROOK IPHONE 5C BYPASSING THE APPLE CORE LEGAL BATTLE TO GET A BACKDOOR ACCESS WITH TERRORISTS SMARTPHONES

The FBI’s last-minute decision to press pause in their legal fight with Apple over the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone is roiling the agency's critics who accuse it of acting disingenuously.
For weeks, critics pressed the FBI on whether it tried hard enough to hack into the device on its own, before it sought a court order to force Apple to help.
Then on Monday, the FBI unexpectedly asked to cancel the first hearing in the case, saying it may have found a way in without the help of the company’s engineers.

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The eleventh-hour shift gave new ammunition to critics who argued that the agency’s focus was on setting a precedent on encrypted communications, not investigating shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s device.Others see the move as evidence of a possible solution to the broader debate: They say companies don’t need to build “backdoors” to their products; the FBI simply needs to get better at hacking.
“We're in this situation where I think law enforcement needs to really develop those skills up by themselves,” Dr. Susan Landau, a professor of cybersecurity policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, told the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month.
When it called off the hearing, the FBI said that a "non-governmental third party" had found a possible way to break into the device without Apple’s help. FBI Director James B. Comey said Thursday that he was “optimistic” the unknown party’s solution would work.
Exactly who is helping the agency — and how — is a matter of rampant speculation. Some reports suggest Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite is the FBI’s white knight, while others say the rumor is bunk.
The agency does have a $15,000 contract dated March 21 with the company for “information technology software,” although the "principle place of performance" is listed as Chicago.

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/274350-fbi-reversal-in-apple-fight-draws-critics-ire