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Clever Tool Shields Your Car From Hacks By Watching Its Internal Clocks
Car-hacking demonstrations tend to get all the glory in the security research community—remotely paralyzing a Jeep on the highway or cutting a Corvette’s brakes...
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
New technology for protecting anonymity online provides stronger security guarantees but uses bandwidth much more efficiently than previous anonymity networks.
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How to Keep More Girls in It at Schools If We're to Close the Gender Gap
The gender gap in the information technology industry is underscored by a lack of engagement of girls in computing and IT education.
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Extortion Extinction: Researchers Develop a Way to Stop Ransomware
University of Florida researchers have developed a system they say can thwart ransomware.
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Europe Approves New Trans-Atlantic Data Transfer Deal
European officials approved a new agreement on Tuesday that will allow some of the world’s largest companies, including Google and General Electric, to move digital...
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn S of Another Dallas
As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Setting p the Internet For a Huge Clash With Europe
Neural networks are changing the Internet.
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If a Driverless Car Goes Bad We May Never Know Why
Two recent accidents involving Tesla's Autopilot system may raise questions about how computer systems based on learning should be validated and investigated when...
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se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in S History
For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.
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Eu Plans $2b Investment in Cybersecurity Research
The European Union is contributing $500 million to fund research into cybersecurity, and is asking the private sector to contribute an additional $1.5 billion.
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Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race
The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report finding the Federal Bureau of Investigation has not properly tested the accuracy of its face-matching...
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
The push by some automakers to make fully autonomous vehicles a commercial reality is being tempered by others arguing against elimination of human driver intervention...
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
Even before Tesla revealed that a fatal accident had occurred while one of its cars was in semiautonomous driving mode, a debate was well underway between researchers...
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Putin Signs New Anti-Terror Law in Russia. Edward Snowden Is pset.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed into law a controversial package of counterterrorism measures, including tougher sentences for extremism and...
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Video Privacy Tool Lets You Select What Others See
Researchers at Duke University have developed software that enables users to specify what others can see when sharing images captured by camera-equipped devices...
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The Fully Self-Driving Car Is Still Years Away
The arrival of fully autonomous automobiles is complicated by the debate over how much self-supervision should be allowed.
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How China Took Center Stage in Bitcoin's Civil War
A delegation of American executives flew to Beijing in April for a secret meeting just blocks from Tiananmen Square.
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This New Device Can Visualize Your Thoughts (sort Of)
The idea of a device that can materialize one's memories out of thin air seems like it could only exist in science fiction. But in a new study, researchers were...
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