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Hackers Arrested as One Turns Witness
Federal prosecutors brought charges against a group of men allegedly behind "LulzSec"—a globe-spanning collective of computer hackers who wreaked havoc on companies...
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The Bright Side of Being Hacked
Hackers operating under the banner Anonymous have been poking a finger in the eye of one private company after another for two years now.
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Stuxnet: Computer Worm Opens New Era of Warfare
For the past few months now, the nation's top military, intelligence and law enforcement officials have been warning Congress and the country about a coming cyberattack...
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Parkagent Seeks to Reduce Urban Traffic Congestion
Researchers in Israel and the Netherlands have teamed up to create PARKAGENT, a spatially explicit agent-based software model designed to assess and optimize urban...
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The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network
When Jayson E. Street broke into the branch office of a national bank in May of last year, the branch manager could not have been more helpful.
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Simulator Computes Evacuation Scenarios for Major Events
Technical University Munich researchers are leading the Interactive Pedestrian Simulation for Regional Evacuation project, which is developing emergency evacuation...
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I'm Being Followed: How Google
This morning, if you opened your browser and went to NYTimes.com, an amazing thing happened in the milliseconds between your click and when the news appeared on...
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Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says
In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense...
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Darpa's $40k 'quest' Tests Social Media's Ability to Help in Emergency
DARPA has launched a contest to gain a better understanding of how social media can spread the word during a crisis.
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Despite Intrusions, Chances Of U.s.-China Cyberwar Are Small
A panel of security and policy experts said that, despite dire warnings about the information warfare capabilities of China and other developing nations, the risk...
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City With Superfast Internet Invites Innovators to Play
Chattanooga residents have access to a 1 Gbps Internet, which is about 100 times faster than the U.S. national average, and now the city is holding a contest with...
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Educators, Innovators Call For Earlier Introduction to Computer Science
Many educators believe schools need to introduce computer science to students as early as kindergarten, while private companies are developing programs to mentor...
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.s. Wants You to Hunt Fugitives With Twitter
A worldwide manhunt kicks off at the end of March—a search across America and Europe for five fugitives, identifiable only by their mugshots.
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Engineers se Computer Models to Help Resource-Poor Nations Improve Allocation of Limited Health Care Resources
Georgia Tech researchers are using computer models to help resource-poor nations improve supply chain decisions.
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Defense Department Wants More Control Over the Internet
The U.S. Department of Defense may have funded the research that led to the Internet, but freewheeling innovation created the patchwork of privately owned technology...
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Apple Loophole Gives Developers Access to Photos
Application developers for Apple's mobile devices, already under fire for taking users' address book information without their knowledge, now are being accused...
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Colleges Are rged to Cooperate to Bring More Women and Minorities Into Science
EducationCounsel and the American Association for the Advancement of Science recently offered a plan for producing more science and engineering graduates by bringing...
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Google Web Grows in City
Google Inc. has dramatically expanded its presence in Manhattan in the past year, adding roughly 750 people to its outpost in 2011 in the most prominent example...
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Nasa Pinning Down Where 'here' Is Better Than Ever
Before our Global Positioning System navigation devices can tell us where we are, the satellites that make up the GPS need to know exactly where they are.
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