Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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How 3D Printing Will Create On-Demand Swarms Of Disposable Drones
from gizmodo.com: New advances in 3D printing are making it not only possible but also viable to manufacture cheap, print-on-demand, disposable drones designed simply to soar off over the horizon and never come back. Some British engineers did just that, and this is only the beginning. The team hails from the Advanced Manufacturing Research Center…
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Dirigible Drones Will Watch the World From 13 Miles Up
from wired.com: With UAVs crowding navigable airspace and plans underway to put giant mega-satellites into orbit, it was just a matter of time before a drone-satellite hybrid was developed to fit between the two spaces. StratoBus, a new project out of France, is conceptualized to do just that. Designed to be about the length of a…
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Legacy of NASA’s Moon Trees Documented in Exhibition
from austinchronicle.com: All the way around our planet’s natural satellite and into this familiar Earth: There are more than 50 moon trees still alive in this country, and Erica Botkin is determined to document them all. Moon trees: trees grown from seeds taken into orbit around the moon during NASA’s Apollo 14 mission in 1971.…
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Facebook to Acquire Oculus VR for $2 Billion
from IGN.com: Facebook has announced that it will acquire Oculus VR, makers of the Oculus Rift for $2 billion. Announced today, the social networking giant will acquire the Oculus VR for $400 million in cash and 23.1 million in Facebook shares. “While the applications for virtual reality technology beyond gaming are in their nascent stages,…
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Delayed UK Cyber Emergency Team to Launch Soon
from theguardian.com: The UK government will unveil its lead cyber emergency response unit on 31 March, after delays had put the digital squadron on hold, the Guardian has learned. The UK Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UK) will work on developing the UK’s cyber resilience to state-sponsored and criminal attacks on critical systems, including those controlling…
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Cyber Criminals Using #Malware That Act as Sleeper Cells
from bgr.in: As enterprises are increasingly adopting technologies like cloud and mobility, they are also facing more security challenges with cyber criminals using malware that are dormant while entering a secure network and then becoming active, networking solutions giant Cisco said. With companies increasingly adopting concepts like BYOD (bring your own device) and cloud services,…
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#NSA Infiltrates Servers of #China Telecom Giant #Huawei
from livemint.com: The US National Security Agency (NSA) has infiltrated servers in the headquarters of Chinese telecommunications and internet giant Huawei Technologies Co., obtaining sensitive information and monitoring the communications of top executives, the New York Times reported on Saturday. The newspaper said its report on the operation, code-named “Shotgiant,” was based on NSA documents…
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#Microsoft Snooped on #Hotmail to Track Leak
from usatoday.com: Microsoft Corp., which has skewered rival Google Inc. for going through customer e-mails to deliver ads, acknowledged it had searched e-mails in a blogger’s Hotmail account to track down who was leaking company secrets. John Frank, deputy general counsel for Microsoft, which owns Hotmail, said in a statement Thursday that the software company…
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Net Neutrality Questions Raised by Netflix Comcast Deal
from guardianlv.com: Net Neutrality questions raised by Netflix Comcast deal in which Netflix paid Comcast to install additional servers to supply streaming content after Comcast throttled Netflix data to the point of being unwatchable. The Net Neutrality debate has raged for weeks, mostly centered around who should foot the bill for upgrades and administration when…
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How To Steal an Airplane: From 9/11 to MH370
from boilingfrogspost.com: Now that the MSM is flirting with the idea of “cyber hijacking” in the increasingly desperate search for MH370, many are left wondering how long the possibility of a remote control hijack has been possible and why the public hasn’t been warned of this threat. Join us for this week’s EyeOpener report with…
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Start-Ups Aim to Conquer Space Market
from nytimes.com: Silicon Valley, not content with changing how retailers, taxi companies and hotels do business, is taking its disruptive ways into outer space. Several young companies with roots in Silicon Valley are trying to elbow their way into a business long dominated by national governments and aeronautics giants like Boeing.
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Space Waves Further Proof Universe Was Born in Big Bang
from adn.com: One night late in 1979, an itinerant young physicist named Alan Guth, with a new son and a year’s appointment at Stanford, stayed up late with his notebook and equations, venturing far beyond the world of known physics… On Monday, Guth’s starship came in. Radio astronomers reported that they had seen the beginning…
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IBM Latest Tech Company to Deny Links with NSA Spy Program
from pcworld.com: IBM said it has not provided client data to the U.S. National Security Agency or any other government agency under surveillance programs involving the bulk collection of content or metadata. The enterprise-focused company is the latest among U.S. tech companies to distance itself from NSA surveillance, which has raised concerns among customers worldwide…
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Navy Submarine Drones Will Predict the Weather Months In Advance
from Strat Risks: In the next decade, Navy scientists will be able to predict the weather as far as 90 days into the future with the help of mathematical models, satellites, and submarine drones. The mathematical models are the most important element in the ocean and weather prediction cocktail. But making those models perform at a…
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US Government to End Formal Relationship With ICANN in 2015
from computerworld.com: The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration will end its formal relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in late 2015, with ICANN developing a new global governance model, the agency said Friday. The NTIA plans to let its contract with ICANN to operate key domain-name functions expire in September…