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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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The Cyber-Mechanics Who Protect Your Car from Hackers
A couple of weeks ago, a small team of security researchers gathered near a car parked outside one of their company’s buildings.
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For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program
She is known as Xiaoice, and millions of young Chinese pick up their smartphones every day to exchange messages with her, drawn to her knowing sense of humor and...
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Politics Overshadows U.s. Tech Firms' Hopes For Entering Iran
Iran has the potential to be a boom market for American tech companies.
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New Email Archive Tool to Sift Literary Legacies
The leather-bound diaries of a 19th-century high-school principal in southwestern India are helping change how archivists around the world handle email.
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Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target
Put a computer on a sniper rifle, and it can turn the most amateur shooter into a world-class marksman.
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Shoring Up Tor
Researchers mount successful attacks against Tor, the popular anonymity network, and show how to prevent them.
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The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the gliest Corners of the Internet
When President Obama launched his Twitter account in May, people noticed his rapid accumulation of followers, a silly back-and-forth with President Clinton, but...
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The Hidden Lab Where Bankcards Are Hacked
It couldn't get any more steampunk if it tried: a wooden robot hisses like an airbrake as a blast of compressed air shoves its arm sideways, sending a credit card...
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Facebook, a Big User of Apple Machines, Writes and Open Sources Its Own Mac Os Security Software
When Facebook Inc. engineers needed security software to monitor the thousands of Apple Inc. Mac laptops, they couldn't find what they needed.
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The Tools Inspectors Can Use to Catch Iran's Nuclear Hijinks
After Tuesday's historic agreement between Iran and the "P5+1" group of countries, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will have access to all...
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Archiving Tech Scans Mobile Apps For Copyright Infringing Content
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has expanded the capability of its mobile apps archiving technology to track copyright...
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Coders Balk at Making Apps Searchable
The giants of the Web have been pressing developers of mobile apps to index their content so it can be parsed by search engines or linked to from other sites.
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Data Breaches Boost Funding For Cybersecurity Startups
Before Max Krohn, the OkCupid co-founder, played online matchmaker, he had a far-less-romantic interest in cryptography. But he couldn't see a way to make a living...
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Here Are Eff's Most Influential Cases from Its First 25 Years
On Friday, July 10, the Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrated its 25th anniversary.
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Lawrence Livermore Licenses Computer Network Security Tool
A computer network security tool developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory computer scientists and engineers has been licensed to Cambridge Global Advisors...
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Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
In the past decade, Moxie Marlinspike has squatted on an abandoned island, toured the U.S. by hopping trains, he says, and earned the enmity of government officials...
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Seven Teams Reach 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Finals
Seven teams have earned the right to compete in the finals of DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge, a tournament designed to speed the development of automated security...
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Csail Report: Giving Government Special Access to Data Poses Major Security Risks
Granting governments access to encrypted data would increase data security concerns, the authors of a new report say.
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Building Blocks Focus on Email Security and Piv Credentials
NIST has proposed two new cybersecurity building blocks, one to help organizations improve the security of email, the other to enable mobile devices to provide...
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Machine Ethics: The Robot's Dilemma
In his 1942 short story 'Runaround', science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov introduced the Three Laws of Robotics—engineering safeguards and built-in ethical principles...
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