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Weekend Reads 1/16/16

Juniper drops NSA-developed code following new backdoor revelations

Juniper Networks, which last month made the startling announcement its NetScreen line of firewalls contained unauthorized code that can surreptitiously decrypt traffic sent through virtual private networks, said it will remove a National Security Agency-developed function widely suspected of also containing a backdoor for eavesdropping.

Startling new finding: 600 million years ago, a biological mishap changed everything

Instead of working as enzymes (proteins that facilitate reactions inside the cell) the proteins were now what’s known as an interaction domain. They could communicate with and bind to other proteins, a useful skill for cells that have decided to trade the rugged individualist life for the collaboration of a group.

Paul Ryan is rapidly emerging as Republicans’ anti-Trump

"I think political correctness has gone way overboard," Ryan told CBS's Dickerson in that same interview. "And that's the new thing in the campaign, which I think is great. But let's just be accurate. Let's be right. ... Let's not have populism that's unattached from our principles."

For Cruz, Supreme Court Work at Heart of Campaign

Cruz rarely mentions his earliest appearances before the Supreme Court, which do not make for great campaign fodder. During his first trip there in 2003, he argued that Texas was free to back out of a legal settlement in which it had vowed to improve health care services for poor children. The justices ruled unanimously against Texas.

The next year, Cruz persuaded the court not to release Michael Haley, who had been sentenced to 14 years in prison for stealing a calculator from a Wal-Mart even though the maximum was two years under state law. Although Cruz conceded that prosecutors had erred, he argued that freeing Haley would set a precedent that could undermine the convictions of others who were unquestionably guilty.

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