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Vint Cerf on the Internet and Out-of-This-World Communications
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Vint Cerf on the Internet and Out-of-This-World Communications

Vint Cerf is one of the most recognized network engineers of all time. He is often referred to as one of the "fathers of the Internet" for his groundbreaking...

U.k. Seeks Cyber Security Champions
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U.k. Seeks Cyber Security Champions

Britons who can defend the nation's networks armed only with a keyboard are being sought in a national competition.

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Pentagon to Consider Cyberattacks Acts of War

The Pentagon, trying to create a formal strategy to deter cyberattacks on the United States, plans to issue a new strategy soon declaring that a computer attack...

Encrypted Voip Not as Secure as It Sounds
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Encrypted Voip Not as Secure as It Sounds

Skype and other services that offer voice conversations over the Internet are vulnerable to eavesdropping even though they use both encoding and encryption, according...

W3c Officially Opens Html5 to Scrutiny
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W3c Officially Opens Html5 to Scrutiny

The World Wide Web Consortium recently announced that HTML5 has reached last call status, which opens the standard to industry scrutiny.

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Cyber Combat: Act of War

The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for...

Bill Would Keep Big Brother's Mitts Off Your Gps Data
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Bill Would Keep Big Brother's Mitts Off Your Gps Data

The reauthorization of the Patriot Act looks like a forgone conclusion. But next month, a bipartisan band of legislators will try to mitigate a different kind...

Stuxnet Attack Forced Britain to Rethink the Cyber War
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Stuxnet Attack Forced Britain to Rethink the Cyber War

The pieces of the puzzle began to take shape, and then fall into place, on 17 June last year, when Sergey Ulasen was emailed by a dealer in Tehran about an irritating...

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Apple of My Eye? ­.s. Fancies a Huge Metaphor Repository

Researchers with the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity want to build a repository of metaphors. You read that right. Not just American/English...

Home-Computer ­sers at Risk Due to ­se of 'folk Model' Security
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Home-Computer ­sers at Risk Due to ­se of 'folk Model' Security

Most home computer users attempt to secure their machines based on folk models, or their beliefs about hackers or viruses, according to new research by Michigan...

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­.s. International Cyberspace Policy Sounds Good; Will Be Hard to Implement

Although ambitious, the White House's recently issued International Strategy for Cyberspace could be difficult to deploy as some of its objectives conflict and...

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How Drudge Has Stayed on Top

For most big news Web sites, about 60 percent of the traffic is homegrown, people who come directly to the site by dint of a bookmark or typing in www.latimes...

All the News That's Fit For You
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All the News That's Fit For You

Personalized news promises to make daily journalism profitable again, but technical and cultural obstacles have slowed the industry's adoption of automated personalization...

Unlimited Possibilities
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Unlimited Possibilities

M. Frans Kaashoek discusses systems work, "undo computing," and what he learned from Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

The Promise of Flexible Displays
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The Promise of Flexible Displays

New screen materials could lead to portable devices that are anything but rectangular, flat, and unbendable.

Biology-Inspired Networking
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Biology-Inspired Networking

Researchers have developed a new networking algorithm, modeled after the neurological development of the fruit fly, to help distributed networks self-organize more...

Tim Berners-Lee Calls For 'sophisticated' Social Network
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Tim Berners-Lee Calls For 'sophisticated' Social Network

Academics and scientists should have a next-generation social network for sharing knowledge more efficiently and collaborating on projects, says Sir Tim Berners...

Tracking the Flow of Knowledge
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Tracking the Flow of Knowledge

Do scientists' job locations have any impact on the way their work spreads? Or, in today’s highly networked world, does research flow around the globe without...

New Ports Give Pcs More Speed and Flexibility
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New Ports Give Pcs More Speed and Flexibility

Computer shoppers are used to considering features such as design, processor speed, memory, battery life, and hard-disk size. But there's something else they...

NASA Concludes Attempts To Contact Mars Rover Spirit
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NASA Concludes Attempts To Contact Mars Rover Spirit

NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated on March 22, 2010.
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