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Anonymous Hacktivists Say Wikileaks War to Continue
A member of the Anonymous group of hackers, which has been targeting firms it sees as being anti-Wikileaks has said the campaign is not over.
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Web Bug Reveals Browsing History
Porn sites are among the top users of a browser bug that reveals all the places people go online, finds research.
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The Birth of a .k. Tech Giant
British chip designer ARM will soon be 20 years old. Bill Thompson was there at the start.
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'fingerprint' Software to STEM Cyber Crime
GuardInQ, new digital fingerprinting software developed by researchers at Edinburgh Napier University, offers closed-caption TV-style monitoring of online systems...
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Code Clues Point to Stuxnet Maker
Detailed analysis of the code in the Stuxnet worm has narrowed the list of suspects who could have created it.
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Supercomputers 'will Fit in a Sugar Cube,' Ibm Says
IBM researchers led by Bruno Michel have developed a water-cooling method for creating supercomputer processors that could shrink them to the size of a sugar cube...
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European Cyber Defenses 'Must Improve,' Tests Show
European Union (EU) member states need to do more to prepare for cyberattacks, concludes a report of Cyber Europe 2010, a simulation of how EU countries would react...
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Why Is a Universal Translator So Elusive?
With a global economy and flights that can take you all over the world in hours, why is it that we still struggle with a language barrier that technology is finding...
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Implanted Chip 'allows Blind People to Detect Objects'
A man with an inherited form of blindness has been able to identify letters and a clock face using a pioneering implant, researchers say.
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What Is Wikileaks?
Months after releasing some 90,000 secret records of U.S. military incident and intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan, Wikileaks has posted online...
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The Robot That Reads Your Mind to Train Itself
University of Washington researchers are developing brain-computer interface (BCI) technology by teaching robots new skills using only brain signals. They are...
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German Radar Satellites Fly Tight Space Waltz
It is a remarkable acrobatic display. Two German radar satellites are now flying in tight formation as they prepare to make the most detailed ever 3D map of the...
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Campaign Builds to Construct Babbage Analytical Engine
A U.K. campaign to build a truck-sized, prototype computer first envisaged in 1837 is gathering steam.
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Call to Define Rules of Cyber War
Nations need to define the rules of engagement for acts of cyber terror.
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Sick PCs Should Be Banned From the Net Says Microsoft
Microsoft researcher Scott Charney recently presented an Internet security proposal that requires users to present a "health certificate" to prove that their PCs...
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Change to 'bios' Will Make For Pcs That Boot in Seconds
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is set to replace BIOS as the dominant PC startup software and could allow computers to start in just seconds.
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Mobile Chips Battle For Processing Power
Inside your smartphone, a battle is raging. As tiny chips with big ambitions fight for processing power, is there anything the phones of the future will not be...
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Clever Cars to Mean Safer Driving
On-board computers and sensors in cars are helping to augment a person's driving skill and that trend will only continue as technologies such as collision-detection...
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Pi record Smashed As Team Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit
A researcher has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi—and a few digits either side of it.
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