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Hey, Hackers: Defense Is Sexy, Too
Pleasing the crowd at the Black Hat and Def Con computer security conferences that took place in Las Vegas last week is relatively easy: simply hop on stage and...
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Strong and Fast Markets, but No Time to Think
Financial markets have greatly improved over the past quarter-century.
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Newest Nasa Mars Mission Connects Past and Future
NASA's newest Mars mission, landing in two days, will draw on support from missions sent to Mars years ago and will contribute to missions envisioned for future...
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How Fbi Technology Woes Let Fort Hood Shooter Slip By
On November 5, 2009, an Army psychiatrist stationed at Fort Hood, Texas shot and killed 12 fellow soldiers and a civilian Defense Department employee while wounding...
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Icann Backflips on Batching For New Tlds
ICANN recently announced that it will no longer attempt to batch new generic top-level domains in groups of 500.
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A Workshop on Next-Generational Financial Cyberinfrastructure
The Next-Generation Financial Cyberinfrastructure Workshop drew participants from academia, industry, and government to consider the need for a new financial cyberinfrastructure...
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Is There a Virtual Mars in Our Future?
Imagine a day when virtual reality gets so good that you could take a computer-generated walk on the Martian surface, right here on Earth.
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A New High Performance and Fault-Tolerant Datacenter Network For Modular Datacenters Was Proposed
Scientists from China's National University of Defense Technology propose a hybrid intra-container network for a modular data center called SCautz, along with an...
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U.s. Sports Fans Using Proxy Servers to Watch Olympics on Bbc
The American network NBC has come in for a lot of flak since the weekend when its Olympics coverage began. The Twitter hadtag of #NBCfail began trending soon after...
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Upgrading the Internet for the Mobile age
Princeton University researchers have developed Serval, a system that makes small changes to the way programs download and manage data, which they say could greatly...
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Honeybot Project Helps Researchers Wipeout Facebook and Twitter Botnets
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Washington have developed Sodexo, an automated "honeybot" system that protects against...
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Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons
For all their progress, computers are still pretty unimpressive.
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Nsa Boss Wants More Control Over the 'net
The U.S. Internet's infrastructure needs to be redesigned to allow the NSA to know instantly when overseas hackers might be attacking public or private infrastructure...
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Talk to Me, One Machine Said to the Other
Ocado, an online grocery store in England, prides itself on its delivery of refrigerated foods: When the company says the goods will arrive at a certain temperature...
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Deborah Estrin Calls For CS Research on Sustainability
The old adage, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” applies to how both networking and sensor technology can help address problems of sustainability, says...
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The Frightening Things You Hear at a Black Hat Conference
Here is a look at some of the highlights and scarier happenings taking place at the annual Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas last week.
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Samsung Case Is a Proxy For Google
When Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. face off in a high-stakes patent trial Monday, there will be another elephant in the room: Google Inc.
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Tagging and Tracking Espionage Botnets
A security researcher who's spent 18 months cataloging and tracking malicious software that was developed and deployed specifically for spying on governments, activists...
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Curiosity Rover on Track For Early August Landing
Eight days before reaching Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft performed a flight-path adjustment scheduled more than nine months ago.
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