Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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U.S. Government to Study Bitcoin as Possible Terrorist Threat
from techspot.com: The US Department of Defense is investigating whether Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are a potential terrorist threat, according to an IBTimes report. The Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO), a division within DOD that identifies and develops counter terrorism abilities and investigates irregular warfare and evolving threats, has listed Bitcoin among its…
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On “Mad Men,” Technology Is An Omen — But Of What?
from salon.com: The chorus of recappers rehashing last week’s episode of “Mad Men” are unanimous: “The Monolith” — in which the admen gathered in awe around a chunky, alien-looking computer — was a glaringly obvious homage to Kubrick, whether it be the slab of IBM technology stabbing skyward and recalling “2001: A Space Odyssey” or…
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Major U.S. ISP’s Accused of Deliberately Slowing Traffic
from yahoo.com: Five major internet service providers in the US and one in Europe have been accused of abusing their market share to interfere with the flow of the internet for end users. The accusations come from Level 3, a communications company that helps connect large-scale ISPs like Comcast or AT&T to the rest of…
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Apple Patent Could End Butt Dialing Forever!
from appleinsider.com: Apple is famous for its pioneering touchscreen devices, but a new patent shows the company has also dabbled behind the scenes in touch-sensitive buttons that would be able to distinguish between accidental activation and an actual finger press. The concept comes from a patent continuation published this week by the U.S. Patent and…
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World’s Largest Fully-Operational Solar Plant Opens in Arizona
from inhabitat.com: Somewhere between Yuma and Phoenix, Arizona on a desolate stretch of 2,400 acres of land, construction was just completed on the world’s largest fully-operational solar-power plant. Known as Agua Caliente, the renewable energy plant can generate 290 megawatts at peak capacity – which is enough to power 230,000 homes and is comparable to…
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3D Printers Print Ten Houses in 24 Hours
from china view: A private company in Shanghai used 3D printers to print 10 full-sized houses in just one day.
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#Microsoft Backs Down, Fix #IE Vulnerability Even on #WindowsXP
from pcworld.com: Microsoft’s support for Windows XP is over. It really is. But because of the company’s sense of responsibility, it will fix and Internet Explorer vulnerability that affects XP — just this once. That was the message that Microsoft sent in a blog post on Thursday, when it said it would fix all versions…
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Cell Phone Privacy: Justices Confront a New World Order
from pulse.ncpolicywatch.org: The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court — the youngest of whom is 54 — confronted their own technological limits yesterday and struggled with creating new parameters for the right to privacy in a world where a person’s whole life can be documented on a cell phone… The justices’ questions themselves revealed varying…
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Are You Ready for a Government Issued Driver’s License for the Internet?
from govtech.com: Government is raising its expectations. While it hasn’t been uncommon in the past for governments to consider money wasted by fraud, mismanagement or inefficiency as an expense of doing business, times are changing. New technologies are preventing such waste and initiating cultural change in the public sector. At the Florida Department of Children…
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Google’s Nexus 6 to include an embedded fingerprint sensor
from biometricupdate.com: Google’s upcoming Nexus 6 smartphone could come with an embedded fingerprint sensor, according to prevailing rumors. Reported in Android Geeks, a ‘trusted insider’ told the website that Google would team up with LG to develop the new device and that the search giant is in advanced talks with “several Asian fingerprint sensor suppliers.”…
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Biometric Bitcoin ATM’s Rolled Out in Australia
from biometricupdate.om: A biometric bitcoin ATM has been unveiled at a mall in Sydney, Australia. This is the first of many to be rolled out across the country, and it uses a combination of biometrics to register and verify user identities. According to a report in The Guardian, the ATM – deployed by Australia Bitcoin…
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The Data Center of 2025 Revealed: Solar, Smaller, Cloud-ier
from computerworld.com: A survey that challenged IT managers to imagine the data center of 2025 offers up some optimistic, even surprising, findings. About 800 IT data center managers globally responded to the Emerson Network Power survey and three of its major findings foretell major changes ahead: First, by 2025, data center managers expect nearly 25%…
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Disclosure of drone-strike victims dropped from Senate bill
from RT.com: At the request of US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, US senators have removed a section from a crucial intelligence bill that would have required the White House to disclose information on those killed by US drone strikes overseas. The fiscal year 2014 intelligence authorization bill passed through the Senate Intelligence Committee…
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New Vulnerability Found in Every Single Version of Internet Explorer
from gizmodo.com: According to a confirmation by Microsoft late last night, a new zero day vulnerability has been found to affect every version of Internet Explorer. In other words—over a quarter of the entire browser market. Attacks taking advantage of the vulnerability are largely targeting IE versions 9, 10, and 11 in something called a…