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Obama's Science Advisors: Much Forensic Work Has No Scientific Foundation
Last year, the US Department of Justice released a report that involved some painful self-examination.
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Building a New Tor that Can Resist Next-Generation State Surveillance
Since Edward Snowden stepped into the limelight from a hotel room in Hong Kong three years ago, use of the Tor anonymity network has grown massively.
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So Much for Counter-Phishing Training: Half of People Click Anything Sent to Them
Security experts often talk about the importance of educating people about the risks of "phishing" e-mails containing links to malicious websites. But sometimes...
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Stretching the Limit of Silicon Nanowires For Next-Generation Electronics
Flexible electronics, which could be used to control flexible robots, depend on the ability to produce electrical circuits that can be repeatedly stretched and...
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Microsoft Sheds Some Light on Its Mysterious Holographic Processing nit
Since it was first unveiled, we've learned bits and pieces about the hardware inside Microsoft's HoloLens augmented reality headset.
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Hints Suggest an Insider Helped the Nsa 'equation Group' Hacking Tools Leak
A group called the Shadow Brokers made headlines this month by leaking a hacking tool belonging to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) team. Now this week...
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Linux Turns 25, Is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever
The Linux operating system kernel is 25 years old this month. It was August 25, 1991 when Linus Torvalds posted his famous message announcing the project, claiming...
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New Air-Gap Jumper Covertly Transmits Data in Hard-Drive Sounds
Researchers have devised a new way to siphon data out of an infected computer even when it has been physically disconnected from the Internet to prevent the leakage...
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Fbi Chief Comey: 'we Have Never Had Absolute Privacy'
FBI Director James Comey has some phones—650 of them, to be exact—that he'd really, really like to take a look at.
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Good News—the Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All
New data shows that the majority of robot-enabled scam phone calls came from fewer than 40 call centers, a finding that offers hope the growing menace of robocalls...
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Frequent Password Changes Are the Enemy of Security, Ftc Technologist Says
Shortly after Carnegie Mellon University professor Lorrie Cranor became chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission in January, she was surprised by an ...
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Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, but Moore's Law Will Live On
Transistors will stop shrinking after 2021, but Moore's law will probably continue, according to the final International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)...
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Tour De France to se Thermal Imaging to Fight Mechanical Doping
They call it "mechanical doping," but the name simply doesn't do it justice.
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Do We Really Need Humans to Explore Mars?
The dazzling sunlight that flooded the lake-front restaurant where I sat down with Chris Kraft in 2014 was nothing compared to the brightness in his eyes.
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Smile, You're in the Fbi Face-Recognition Database
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has access to as many as 411.9 million images as part of its face-recognition database.
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Goodbye, Obamaberry. Hello, Obamadroid.
When President Barack Obama took office in 2009, he pushed to keep his BlackBerry.
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Red Astroturf: Chinese Government Makes Millions of Fake Social Media Posts
Data scientists at Harvard University have found that the government of the People's Republic of China generates an estimated 448 million fake social media posts...
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Going Digital May Make Analog Quantum Computer Scaleable
There are many different schemes for making quantum computers work (most of them evil). But they pretty much all fall into two categories.
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Four Wild Technologies Lawmakers Want Nasa to Pursue
Imagine a tissue-box sized device, with blades a few feet long, whirring to life after charging for a full Sol on Mars.
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