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Researchers Release New Exploits to Hijack Critical Infrastructure
Researchers have released two new exploits that attack common design vulnerabilities in a computer component used to control critical infrastructure, such as refineries...
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How Smart Is Your Home?
Within reach is a smart home that is responsive to residents' wishes and needs due to technological advances that support ambient intelligence, including sensors...
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MIT Team Thinks Outside the Box to Snag Social Media Prize
A team affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the U.S. State Department's social media contest, the TAG Challenge, which required participants...
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Would You Pay to Block Your Own Internet Connection?
Carnegie Mellon University researcher Fred Stutzman has developed productivity apps designed to maintain workers' focus on tasks and prevent them from being distracted...
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Watching and Waiting
It is called an advanced persistent threat, and if it sounds like something out of a Tom Clancy novel, that's because it pretty much is.
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To Convince People, Come at Them From Different Angles
Cornell research on Facebook users' behavior demonstrates that people base decisions on the variety of social contexts rather than on the number of requests received...
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Hacking It Systems to Become a Criminal Offense
A draft law supported by the Civil Liberties Committee would criminalize the hacking of information technology systems and carry a minimum prison sentence of two...
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How China Blocks the Tor Anonymity Network
The Tor Project is a free network run by volunteers that hides users locations and usage from surveillance and traffic analysis.
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Giving Women the Access Code
When Maria Klawe became president of Harvey Mudd College in 2006, she was dismayed— but not surprised—at how few women were majoring in computer science.
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Jeffrey Bigham: sing the Crowd to Help People With Disabilities
Jeffrey Bigham's research uses Web-based applications and crowdsourcing to help people with disabilities in near real-time. Is it any surprise he won a NSF Career...
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Ideas Global Challenge Team Profile: Wecyclers
A participant in MIT's IDEAS Global Challenge is Wecyclers, a crowdsourced recycling platform that will operate in Lagos, Nigeria, and is designed to incentivize...
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Cyber and Drone Attacks May Change Warfare More Than the Machine Gun
Information technology is changing the way nations wage war, with philosophical and ethical perspectives struggling to keep pace with those changes.
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.s. Outgunned in Hacker War
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's top cyber cop offered a grim appraisal of the nation's efforts to keep computer hackers from plundering corporate data networks...
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Study Tracks How Conservatives Lost Their Faith in Science
An analysis of 36 years' worth of polling data indicates that confidence in science as an institution has steadily declined among Americans who consider themselves...
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A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet
The market for online classes in programming, Web construction, and application development is booming.
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Smarter Computing Systems Make Society Better
The High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation project is driving the development of computing systems designed to make everyday life easier, such...
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Fixing the Brain With Computers
Disabilities such as epilepsy, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Parkinson’s disease are being treated with neuroimplants, says St. Louis University...
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New Ornl Tool Developed to Assess Global Freshwater Stress
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a method to make better use of large amounts of data concerning global geography, population, and climate...
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Rebecca Mackinnon Discusses Threats to Internet Freedom: Part 2
Many people don't realize that most of the censorship and surveillance in China is not being done by the government, but by companies at the behest of the government...
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