Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Google & Facebook Used Lobbying Groups to Oppose Internet Surveillance Restrictions
from vice.com: Revelations about the National Security Agency’s most controversial surveillance program, which centers on the bulk collection of hundreds of billions of records of Americans’ phone conversations, were quickly greeted with calls for reform by major internet powerhouses like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo last year. But all four companies, along with dozens of…
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DNA Nanobots Deliver Drugs in Living Cockroaches
from blacklistednews.com: It’s a computer – inside a cockroach. Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as a silicon-based computer have been introduced into a living animal. The DNA computers – known as origami robots because they work by folding and unfolding strands of DNA –…
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Botanists Baffled By Rapid Growth of ‘Space Cherry’
from ajw.asahi.com: A tree grown from a cherry pit that traveled in space five years ago with astronaut Koichi Wakata, now commander of the International Space Station, has bloomed far ahead of what is normal–to the astonishment of botanists. Cherry trees typically take about a decade from the time they sprout from seeds to bloom.…
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#Heartbleed Bug: Passwords, Credit Cards, Sensitive Data at Risk
from ibnlive.in.com: Passwords, credit cards and other sensitive data are at risk after security researchers discovered a problem with an encryption technology used to securely transmit email, e-commerce transactions, social networking posts and other Web traffic. Security researchers say the threat, known as Heartbleed, is serious, partly because it remained undiscovered for more two years.…
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Skype TX Promising Pro-Level Broadcast Service
from theregister.co.uk: TV journalists weary of trying to gather acceptable audio from Skype, your time to celebrate is now: Microsoft is rolling out a high-quality service designed for the broadcast market. If it does what it says on the box, Skype TX (transmitter, geddit?) will stick Microsoft’s elbows in the ribs of the expensive platforms…
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Sun Sets, Mars Rises In Cosmic Alignment
from guardianlv.com: Night sky gawkers are preparing for an uncommon occurrence coming this Tuesday evening on April 8. That is when three entities within the solar system will be in a near perfect queue. The Sun, Earth and Mars will all be lined up in a stunning cosmic alignment, and Mars will also be visible…
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Military Drone Crashes Near Pennsylvania Elementary School
from RT.com: A nearly 400-pound unmanned aerial vehicle crash-landed near an elementary school in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania on Thursday afternoon, irritating members of the community and alarming civil liberties advocates nervous about drones flying over the US. The drone, an RQ-7 Shadow, is 11 feet long with a 14 foot wingspan. Why it was flying…
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White House Created ZunZuneo, ‘Cuban Twitter,’ NOT As Covert Operation
US Secretly Created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to Stir Unrest* from voanews.com: The White House says a so-called “Cuban Twitter” communications network created by the U.S. government was a development program, not a covert operation. White House spokesman Jay Carney commented about the program Thursday, responding to a report by the Associated Press news agency. Carney said…
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Mozilla Co-Founder Brendan Eich Resigns as CEO
from recode.net: Brendan Eich, the well-known techie who has gotten swept up in a controversy about his support of California’s anti-gay marriage law Proposition 8, is resigning as CEO of for-profit Mozilla Corporation and also from the board of the nonprofit foundation which wholly owns it. Mozilla confirmed the change in a blog post. “Mozilla…
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Inside the Military’s New Office for Cyborgs
from stratrisks.com: The ability to link human brains to machines, create new life forms and build Star Trek-style disease detectors will be the focus of a new Defense Department office soon. The new office, named the Biological Technology Office, or BTO, will serve as a clearinghouse for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, programs…
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Future of Wearable Tech: Solar-Powered Dresses and Wi-Fi Suits
from livescience.com: From fitness trackers to smartwatches, wearable technology is infiltrating the fashion world. But are tech companies creating fashions anyone would actually wear? A dress that goes transparent when the wearer’s heart races, a quilted onesie that doubles as a Wi-Fi hotspot and a chic outfit that sports solar cells are just a few…
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Hagel: US Cyberwarfare Force to Grow Significantly
from washingtonpost.com: The Pentagon is significantly growing the ranks of its cyberwarfare unit in an effort to deter and defend against foreign attacks on crucial U.S. networks, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday. In his first major speech on cyber policy, Hagel sought to project strength but also to tame perceptions of the United States…
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Astronomers discover new dwarf planet and possible super-Earth in our Solar System
from extremetech.com: For the longest time, the Solar System was known to have nine planets. Eventually, Pluto got downgraded to a dwarf planet due to the discovery of various other celestial bodies found in the Solar System that were of similar size. Now, astronomers have discovered another dwarf planet — dubbed 2012 VP113 and just…
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X Marks the Spot: Powerful Flare Erupts on the Sun
from nbcnews.com: It’s fitting that a powerful solar flare created a bright X-shaped pattern in this extreme ultraviolet view of the sun’s disk, captured Saturday by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The blast rates as an X-class flare, which puts it in the most serious category of solar flares. Saturday’s outburst comes after a series of…