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New Software Can Pinpoint Hate Groups' Radicalization Sites
New software searches mainstream websites and the Dark Web to identify sites that contain terrorist ideologies that encourage people to cause harm.
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Blockchain Gets a Wall Street Win: 'we Know the Thing Works Now'
The prospect of blockchain technology remaking financial services just moved a step closer to reality after banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan...
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Did Technology Kill the Truth?
The software algorithms that decide our news feed are programmed to prioritize user attention over truth to optimize for engagement, which means optimizing for...
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Defining a New Model For Cybersecurity Trust With Blockchain
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's David Shrier recently detailed the MIT Trust::Data Consortium's efforts to build new systems that rethink data sharing...
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Google Study Finds Phishing Is Top Online Threat
Internet data breaches threaten the usernames and passwords of billions of people, and phishing attacks are the most effective way to hijack victims' online identities...
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Training For Artificial Intelligence in Warfare
Governments are taking a closer look at artificial intelligence as a way to further their strategic interests in areas such as national defense.
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Why They Dox: First Large-Scale Study Reveals Top Motivations and Targets For This Form of Cyber Bullying
Researchers say they have published the first large-scale study of doxing.
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Only If It Serves the State: North Korea's Online Experience
Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.
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Texas Gunman's Iphone Could Reignite Fbi-Apple Feud Over Encryption
The FBI and Apple are bracing for another potential fight over encryption, this time because of the iPhone of the dead gunman in Sunday's Texas church shooting,...
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Law Enforcement’s Ongoing Problem with Mobile Encryption
Organizations like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation have a hard time cracking suspects' smartphones, thanks to end-to-end encryption.
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Fbi Again Finds Itself nable to nlock a Gunman's Cellphone
The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman's encrypted cellphone to learn what...
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China's Technology Ambitions Could pset the Global Trade Order
When President Trump arrives in Beijing on Wednesday, he will most likely complain about traditional areas of dispute like steel and cars.
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A Third of the Internet Is nder Attack
Researchers completing the first large-scale analysis of victims of Internet denial-of-service attacks worldwide found about a third of the IPv4 address space was...
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Researcher: 'we Should Be Worried' This Computer Thought a Turtle Was a Gun
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's LabSix artificial intelligence team has demonstrated the first example of a three-dimensional object becoming "adversarial"...
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A Better Technique For Spotting Bugs in Self-Driving AI Could Save Lives
Most software bugs won't kill you.
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Captcha Is Dying. This Is How It's Being Reinvented For the AI Age
Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs) appear to be heading toward obsolescence.
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Smart Access to Homes and Cars sing Fingers
Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a low-cost, minimal-power smart access system that can authenticate users by sensing their finger vibrations.
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Russian Ads, Now Publicly Released, Show Sophistication of Influence Campaign
Lawmakers on Wednesday released a trove of ads that Russian operatives bought on Facebook, providing the fullest picture yet of how foreign actors sought to promote...
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Small Words in an Email Can Reveal a Person's Identity
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to identify someone by analyzing small sequences of words in emails.
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