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The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back
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The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back

One day in the summer of 2003, Shawn Carpenter, a security analyst in New Mexico, went to Florida on a secret mission. Carpenter, then thirty-five, worked at Sandia...

Tech Giants Hit by NSA Spying Slam Encryption Backdoors
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Tech Giants Hit by NSA Spying Slam Encryption Backdoors

A coalition of Silicon Valley tech giants has doubled down on its criticism of encryption backdoors following a proposal that would give law enforcement access...

Amazon Blocks Domain Fronting, Threatens to Shut Down Signal's Account
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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...

Why Silicon Valley Must Go to War
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Why Silicon Valley Must Go to War

Should technologists prevent their tools from being used to wage war? This question was answered with a furious yes at Google recently, when more than 3,000 employees ...

Most Americans Look to Research Universities for Innovation Leadership
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Most Americans Look to Research Universities for Innovation Leadership

A survey from the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation found that 71 percent of Americans believe research universities are a "major force" in driving...

Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform
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Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform

In some ways, Synthego looks like any other Silicon Valley startup.

Football Star Tackles Computer Science
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Football Star Tackles Computer Science

USC student-athlete Yoofi Quansah balanced sports and academics, training 20 hours per week while earning his bachelor's and master's computer science degrees in...

Despite Backlash, Loot Boxes Could Be Essential to Gaming's Future
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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...

Singapore Airport May ­se Facial Recognition Systems to Find Late Passengers
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Singapore Airport May ­se Facial Recognition Systems to Find Late Passengers

Ever been delayed on a flight because of straggling fellow passengers?

Shake Rattle and Code
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Shake Rattle and Code

A team from the Southern California Earthquake Center is using the supercomputing resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to advance modeling for...

Cambridge Receives Funding for New AI Supercomputer
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Cambridge Receives Funding for New AI Supercomputer

A new £10 million (US$13.65 millon) AI academic supercomputer, based at the University of Cambridge, will be made available to artificial intelligence technology...

Intel Wants Its New Drones to Find Jobs Outside the Spotlight
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Intel Wants Its New Drones to Find Jobs Outside the Spotlight

Intel Corp. drones played starring roles at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the music and arts festival Coachella and danced above the Bellagio Hotel's fountains in Las...

How A Major Tech Company Could Help Educate California High School Students
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How A Major Tech Company Could Help Educate California High School Students

IBM wants to create 20 new California schools offering career training in science and technology, with the support of state lawmakers.

White House Considers Restricting Chinese Researchers Over Espionage Fears
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White House Considers Restricting Chinese Researchers Over Espionage Fears

The Trump administration is considering strict measures to block Chinese citizens from performing sensitive research at American universities and research institutes...

Students to Speak with NASA Astronauts on Space Station
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Students to Speak with NASA Astronauts on Space Station

Students from the United States and Japan will talk with astronauts on the International Space Station this week as part of NASA's Year of Education on Station....

Army Researchers Find the Best Cyber Teams Are Antisocial Cyber Teams
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Army Researchers Find the Best Cyber Teams Are Antisocial Cyber Teams

Army researchers have discovered what experienced information security teams already know: actual human interaction isn't a key to success when you already know...

Who's Firing? (Qualcomm, GoPro, and IBM, Again) Who's Hiring? (Facebook, Apple, Amazon)
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Who's Firing? (Qualcomm, GoPro, and IBM, Again) Who's Hiring? (Facebook, Apple, Amazon)

In what has practically turned into an annual sign of spring, IBM rained layoff notices down on its tech workforce in late March and again in April.

Who Controls Your Data?
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Who Controls Your Data?

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will change how companies and individuals collect, store and share data.

Reuters Top 100: Europe's Most Innovative Universities – 2018
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Reuters Top 100: Europe's Most Innovative Universities – 2018

For the third year running KU Leuven tops Reuters ranking of Europe's most innovative universities, a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions...

Chinese Tech Companies Turn to Games to Get Kids Interested in STEM
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Chinese Tech Companies Turn to Games to Get Kids Interested in STEM

The CodeCombat video game requires players to write Python or JavaScript to direct a character's movements.
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