Assistant Professor - Department of Civil and Environmental - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA, United States
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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Contractor Planted Logic Bombs In His Software to Ensure He'd Get New Work
A former contractor for Siemens planted logic bombs in projects he designed that caused them to periodically malfunction. Then wait for a call to come fix things...
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Google Pays $11 Million to Settle Age Discrimination Claims
Google will pay $11 million to settle the claims of 227 people who say they were unfairly denied jobs because of their age, according to court filings.
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They Didn't Buy the DLC: Feature that Could've Prevented 737 Crashes Was Sold As an Option
The crashed Lion Air 737 MAX and the Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX aircraft had more in common than aircraft design and the apparently malfunctioning flight system...
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ber Escapes Criminal Charges for 2018 Self-Driving Death in Arizona
A prosecutor in Arizona has decided not to press charges against Uber in the March 2018 death of Elaine Herzberg. One of Uber's self-driving cars crashed into Herzberg...
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How the Government Shutdown Is Flushing Away Federal Cyber-Talent
The US Federal government is in the midst of the longest gap in funding for many of its agencies in history. As the "shutdown" extends into a second month, the...
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Facebook Yanks Content Tied to Iranian Effort Due to 'Inauthentic Behavior'
Today, Facebook took down 30 pages, 33 Facebook accounts, three Facebook groups, and 16 Instagram accounts that Facebook's head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel...
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Why a 40-Year-Old SCOTS Ruling Against Software Patents Still Matters Today
Forty years ago this week, in the case of Parker v. Flook, the US Supreme Court came close to banning software patents.
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Amazon Blocks Domain Fronting, Threatens to Shut Down Signal's Account
Last week, Amazon announced a change to an Amazon Web Service designed specifically to end the use of domain fronting—the exploitation of a content delivery network's...
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Despite Backlash, Loot Boxes Could Be Essential to Gaming's Future
With all the controversy, scrutiny, and international regulation randomized video game loot boxes are facing these days, you might think the practice of charging...
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What the Latest Strike on Syria Succeeded At (and What It Didn't)
On April 13, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom launched the largest barrage of cruise missiles since the opening of the Gulf War.
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What Lies Beneath: The Things Facebook Knows Go Beyond ser Data
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its...
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Non-Lethal Weapon: DOD Seeks to se Lasers to Create Shouting Will-O-the-Wisp
The Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Development Program (JNLWD) is closing in on a directed energy weapon that can literally tell people to go...
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Twitter 'Bot' Purge Causes Outcry from Trollerati as Follower Counts Fall
A number of "alt-right," pro-Trump, and self-described conservative social media personalities awoke this morning to find that they had a lot fewer followers on...
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German Navy Experiences 'lcs Syndrome' in Spades as New Frigate Fails Sea Trials
The German Navy has a lot of problems right now.
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License Expired: The Ars Technica 2018 Deathwatch
Wow, that 2017, though. Quite a year. Let's grab a Juicero and take a moment to reflect on the utter dumpster fires that we've witnessed over the past 12 months...
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Australian Man ses Snack Bags as Faraday Cage to Block Tracking By Employer
A 60-year-old electrician in Perth, Western Australia had his termination upheld by a labor grievance commission when it was determined he had been abusing his...
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Survey of Bug Bounty Hunters Shows Who Pans For Pwns
Asking the crowd for help in fixing security problems is going mainstream.
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Members of Congress Want You to Hack the S Election Voting System
This summer, DefCon's "Voting Machine Hacking Village" turned up a host of US election vulnerabilities (PDF). Now, imagine a more mainstream national hacking event...
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Digital Transformation: How Machine Learning Could Help Change Business
Machine learning (ML) based data analytics is rewriting the rules for how enterprises handle data.
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With the Uss mccain Collision, Even Navy Tech Can't Overcome Human Shortcomings
In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore.
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