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U.s. Accelerating Cyberweapon Research
The Pentagon is accelerating efforts to develop a new generation of cyberweapons capable of disrupting enemy military networks even when those networks are not...
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Rebecca Mackinnon Discusses Threats to Internet Freedom: Part 1
Rebecca MacKinnon shares insights about Internet freedom, including the roles and responsibilities of citizens, corporations, and governments.
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Drones Over America: What Can They See?
Unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, have long played a role in military operations. But imagine thousands of drones flying over U.S. skies—something we may see...
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Tech Industry Climbs Out of Silicon Valley, Moves Abroad
Washington, D.C., has replaced Silicon Valley as the locus for technology jobs as non-tech industries continue to add tech professionals, according to Dice.com....
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Work on Causality Causes Judea Pearl to Win Prize
Humans have always made inferences about causes and effects, sometimes based on scanty information. Many machines do now, too, and Judea Pearl is frequently cited...
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New Interest in Hacking as Threat to Security
During the five-month period between October and February, there were 86 reported attacks on computer systems in the United States that control critical infrastructure...
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Arm Wants to Put the Internet in Your mbrella
Chip designer ARM wants to put the internet in your fridge. And it insists this cliche of tech prognostication is no longer just talk. Really.
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Tracking Pedestrians Indoors Using Their Smart Phones
The embedded inertial sensors in many smartphones could be used to track the movement of smartphone users when indoors, even without global positioning systems.
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Life on Mars? Funds to Find Answer Fade
Just as NASA is on the cusp of answering the most fascinating questions about Mars—is there, was there or could there be life there?—the money needed to provide...
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DARPA Director Bolts Pentagon For Google
Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon's premiere research shop to take a job with Google.
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Behind The Mask, Accused Lulzsec Members Left Trail Of Clues Online
When the long arm of the law reached in to arrest members of Anonymous's senior leadership on Tuesday, speculation immediately turned to the identities of the six...
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How Hackers Are Caught Out By Law Enforcers
The Internet has gained a reputation as somewhere you can say and do anything with impunity, primarily because it is easy to disguise your identity.
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Cyberwar Is Already pon S
In the nearly 20 years since David Ronfeldt and I introduced our concept of cyberwar, this new mode of conflict has become a reality.
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Three Things that Scare Google
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt told a crowd of journalists Wednesday night that there are some things about technology and the Internet that scare him,...
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Fbi's 'sabu' Hacker Was a Model Informant
As soon as he was caught, an influential computer hacker agreed to become a government informant and "literally worked around the clock" to help federal agents...
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Where 4,000,000 Phones a Year Go to Be Resurrected
The first thing I noticed when I stepped into Recellular's Ann Arbor warehouse was the flags. From the rafters, the flags of the world oversee the processing of...
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The First Google Maps War
Did Google Maps almost cause a war in 2010? On Nov. 3 of that year, Edén Pastora, the Nicaraguan official tasked with dredging the Rio San Juan, justified his country's...
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Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World
Stanford University is introducing five free online classes in March as the next step in a university initiative to use new technologies to improve education....
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Stakeout: How the Fbi Tracked and Busted a Chicago Anon
"Script kiddie." No hacker worth his salt wants to hear the term used to describe him.
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