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Researchers Present Early Warning System For Mass Cyberattacks
Researchers have developed an early warning system for massive distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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In Black Box Algorithms We Trust (or Do We?)
Some issues that arise from the use of algorithms may be due to the data they are fed, rather than their black-box nature.
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Doubts About Whether Internet Filters Protect Teenagers Online
Researchers surveyed 515 teenagers and their parents about whether they used technical tools to control or manage access to online content.
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Why We Should Not Know Our Own Passwords
There is active research transpiring in the area of unknowable password development.
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Tim Berners-Lee: I Invented the Web. Here Are Three Things We Need to Change to Save It
World Wide Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of three trends to be overcome in order to sustain the Web as beneficial for everyone.
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Quantum Computer Learns to 'see' Trees
St. Mary's College researchers trained a quantum computer to recognize trees, a breakthrough they say could help scientists use other quantum systems for complicated...
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Girls Now Outnumber Boys in High School Stem, but Still Lag in College and Career
Although girls currently comprise about 50% of the enrollment in U.S. high school science and math classes, they still lag their male counterparts in college and...
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Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out.
A 2015 Arkansas murder case that had raised privacy questions surrounding "always-on" electronic home devices took a step forward last week after Amazon agreed...
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Researchers Can Predict Terrorist Behaviors With More Than 90 Percent Accuracy
The Networked Pattern Recognition Framework works to predict future terrorist behaviors by defining past attack patterns.
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Predicting Lawsuits
Deep learning yields the ability to forecast the potential for litigation.
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Robots Could Look, Feel 'human' on the Outside
Researchers say technology is available to enable robots to "wear" human tendons, muscle, and skin.
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How the Cia's Hacking Hoard Makes Everyone Less Secure
When Wikileaks yesterday released a trove of documents purporting to show how the CIA hacks everything from smartphones to PCs to smart televisions, the agency's...
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Top Obstacles For Women in Technology
Women face major barriers when working in technology fields, including wage inequality compared to male colleagues, workplace gender bias, a shortage of female...
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The Darknet Protects Itself By Being More Robust Against Attacks
Researchers have found the darknet is especially good at protecting users' privacy and anonymity because it can counter large cyberattacks on its own by spontaneously...
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Wikileaks: The CIA Is Using Popular Tvs, Smartphones and Cars to Spy on Their Owners
The latest revelations about U.S. government's powerful hacking tools potentially takes surveillance right into the homes and hip pockets of billions of users worldwide...
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How Hard Is It to Get an Intelligence Wiretap? Pretty Hard.
Wiretaps on Americans in foreign intelligence investigations are not easy to get. And if you're a candidate for president, it's even harder.
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Modeling Gun Violence as a Contagion
Using data to try to keep people from getting shot.
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sing Game Theory to Predict Cyberattacks on Elections and Voting Machines
An algorithm based on game theory can be used to protect against efforts to tamper with election results.
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To Keep Tor Hack Source Code Secret, Doj Dismisses Child Porn Case
Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have ...
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