Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Shocker! Snowden a Spy ‘At All Levels’
from ndtv.com: US fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden “trained as a spy” and worked “undercover overseas” for intelligence agencies, he told NBC News in excerpts of an interview aired Tuesday. In his first interview in US media, Snowden hit back at claims that he was merely a low-level contractor, saying he worked “at all levels…
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Prominent Hacker Who Became FBI Informant Is Released
from mashable.com: The hacker who cofounded the shadowy LulzSec group, but who then helped the U.S. government disrupt at least 300 cyberattacks while working as an FBI informant, is now a free man. A Manhattan federal district court judge granted Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known by his hacker moniker “Sabu,” a sentence of time served…
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Camelopardalids! Stargazers on Alert for Rare, Maybe Epic Meteor Shower
from cnn.com: Actually, these meteors aren’t necessarily falling on the Earth. Rather, it’s the Earth that’s moving through the debris of Comet 209/P Linear. Whatever the reason, experts say this one-night-only phenomenon known as the May Camelopardalids could produce a huge light show — or be a dud. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory noted that some…
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Research shows collision created Chelyabinsk asteroid
from phys.org: On February 15 2013, an asteroid exploded about 30 kilometers above Chelyabinsk, Russia. The explosion, shared on video around the world, was the Earth’s second largest recorded airburst. By analyzing fragments of the meteorite that fell to Earth, Shin Ozawa at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan and colleagues determined that the asteroid formed…
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DARPA Turns Oculus Into a Weapon for Cyberwar
from wired.com: For the last two years, Darpa has been working to make waging cyberwar as easy as playing a video game. Now, like so many other games, it’s about to get a lot more in-your-face. At the Pentagon Wednesday, the armed forces’ far-out research branch known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency showed…
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First Technique to Turn Light into Matter Discovered
from ndtv.com: In a breakthrough, scientists have for the first time discovered a revolutionary technique to turn light into matter, a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago. Three physicists at the Imperial College London’s Blackett Physics Laboratory worked out a relatively simple way to physically prove a theory first…
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‘Michael Jackson’ Hologram Sings, Moonwalks at Billboard Awards
from rollingstone.com: A hologram that looked like Michael Jackson performed the previously unreleased “Slave to the Rhythm” at the Billboard Music Awards Sunday night. The performance began with a synchronized SWAT Team dancing until a curtain dropped and Jackson was seen sitting in a Dangerous-like throne. Then holo-Jackson (or someone impersonating MJ — it was…
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‘Diamond’ Planets MoreCommon Than First Thought
from RT.com: Carbon-rich planets containing big deposits of diamonds and graphite could turn out to be more common than previously thought, Yale astronomers discovered. The findings trigger a debate on how the carbon environments impact climate, geology and life. “Despite the relatively small amount of carbon on Earth, carbon has been critical for the emergence…
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Text to 911 Service Coming to Community Near You?
from wdtv.com: On Thursday, the nation’s four major cell phone providers started offering text to 911 services as an option for people who need emergency help, but for one reason or another can’t make a call. AT & T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon are all on board now, but that doesn’t necessarily mean everyone’s 911…
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FCC Officialy Approves Plan to Consider Paid Priority on Internet
from washingtonpost.com: The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted in favor of advancing a proposal that could dramatically reshape the way consumers experience the Internet, opening the possibility of Internet service providers charging Web sites for higher-quality delivery of their content to American consumers. The plan, approved in a three-to-two vote along party lines, could…
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Americans Will Never Have the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’
from time.com: Americans shouldn’t expect the same privacy protections as in Europe, where a top court has ruled citizens have a “right to be forgotten” Privacy has just taken on new meaning in Europe. The European Union’s highest court has ruled that any of the region’s 500 million citizens can compel Google and other search…
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Moon Will Occult Saturn on May 14
from autoworldnews.com: Saturn will appear in the sky later tonight just to the lower left of the moon, according to SPACE.com. “At dusk on Tuesday, Saturn will appear about 5.5 degrees to the lower left of the moon,” said SPACE.com. “The moon will move toward Saturn at its own apparent width (one-half degree) per hour…
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FCC Net Neutrality Plan in Chaos
from time.com: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former top cable and wireless industry lobbyist, appears to have misjudged both public opinion and his fellow Democratic commissioners regarding his “Open Internet” proposal… Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is scrambling to change his “Open Internet” proposal after a torrent of criticism from Internet giants, startups, venture…
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Personal Health Connectivity Pervasive By 2025
from modernhealthcare.com: Connections between people and interoperable computerized devices such as home and personal-health monitors will become so ubiquitous that, in little more than a decade, we’ll scarcely know the devices and networks are there, according to a report based on canvassing of more than 1,600 technology experts on the future of the Internet, released…
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Anti-surveillance mask lets you pass as someone else
from cnet.com: Uncomfortable with surveillance cameras? “Identity replacement tech” in the form of the Personal Surveillance Identity Prosthetic gives you a whole new face. If the world starts looking like a scene from “Matrix 3” where everyone has Agent Smith’s face, you can thank Leo Selvaggio. His rubber mask aimed at foiling surveillance cameras features…