Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Cosmos Launched New Crusade for Science?
from wired.com: On Sunday night, viewers saw the first episode of a followup series, Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, hosted by astrophysicist and science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson. It had been nearly 35 years since Carl Sagan inspired a generation of scientists with 1980′s 13-part series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Immediately, one thing became clear: This…
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On Web’s 25th Anniversary, Internet Creator Calls For Online Magna Carta
from theguardian.com: The inventor of the world wide web believes an online “Magna Carta” is needed to protect and enshrine the independence of the medium he created and the rights of its users worldwide. Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the Guardian the web had come under increasing attack from governments and corporate influence and that new…
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Video of 9/11 Captured from ISS to Be Shown for First Time
from rt.com: A British news channel is preparing to broadcast video footage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks captured from outer space for the first time in the coming weeks. Channel 4, a public service television station based in the United Kingdom, has announced that it will show footage from that Tuesday morning captured…
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Shocker: Airport Body Scanners ‘Could Give You Cancer’, Warns Expert
from dailymail.co.uk: Full body scanners at airports could increase your risk of skin cancer, experts warn. The X-ray machines have been brought in at Manchester, Gatwick and Heathrow. But scientists say radiation from the scanners has been underestimated and could be particularly risky for children. They say that the low level beam does deliver a…
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Fun and Games With Stratfor
APD and DPS collaborated with private ‘geopolitical intelligence firm’ – including bomb demonstrations and undercover surveillance from austinchronicle.com: One of the murkier and more forbidding aspects of the post-9/11 world has been the massive growth of what’s become known as the “intelligence industrial complex.” Similar to its sibling, the “military industrial complex” (as it was…
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Drone With 80,000 Volt Taser Is Worrying Glimpse Into Future
from huffingtonpost.com: A drone affectionately called ‘CUPID’ has been equipped with an 80,000 volt taser and has successfully killed taken out a human, helpfully mapping out the sci-fi predicted future of humanity… CUPID —> Robocop —> Skynet —> Terminators —> No more people. Designed by Chaotic Moon, the Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone (y’see?) was…
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Spritz Speed Reading App Triples Your Skills?
from blogs.telegraph.co.uk: Have you seen the new speed-reading app? It’s pretty cool. Turns out there’s something odd about the way our eyes move over words, and a group of app creators, having clocked this, have been able to produce something that can – they say – triple reading speed. Yes, triple it. The secret is…
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Obama Nominates Former SOPA Lobbyist to Help Lead TPP Negotiations
By Maira Sutton / from EFF.org: President Obama has nominated former SOPA lobbyist Robert Holleyman to join the team of U.S. negotiators leading the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks. If confirmed by the Senate, the former chief executive officer of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) would serve as a Deputy to the U.S. Trade Representative. Coincidentally,…
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28-Year-Old CEO of Bitcoin Exchange Found Dead After Possible Suicide
from wearechange.org: According to Tech in Asia, Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange platform First Meta’s 28 year old CEO Autumn Radtke committed suicide. Reasons are currently unknown. [UPDATE: Tech in Asia has updated the article to emphasize that suicide is only suggested and not certain] First Meta is a Singaporean start up company that runs a exchange…
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98-foot Asteroid Flashes Between Moon and Earth Within 24 Hours
from RT.com: An Apollo class asteroid is expected to whizz between the Earth and the moon on March 5. The 98-foot-wide space rock is expected to come within 218,000 miles of earth (0.9 lunar distances), creating quite the site for stargazers. The asteroid, named 2014 DX110, is expected to make its closest approach at 21:07…
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Must Watch Video: The Threats of Facebook and Data Mining Explained
from youtube.com: Eben Moglen talks about freedom of thought, data mining, facebook, google, Steve Jobs’ death, and what we can do about it.
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Secret Service Probes Possible Data-Leak Hack Attack at Sears
from theregister.co.uk: The US Secret Service is helping to hunt for evidence of a possible computer security breach at retail giant Sears, it was claimed today. Bloomberg cited sources familiar with the matter in reporting that the company was working with Uncle Sam’s g-men and digital forensics experts at Verizon to probe a possible network…
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DARPA Going to War With Bootleg Electronics
from RT.com: The United States Department of Defense is asking engineers to develop a nearly microscopic-sized component that could be used to help identify and combat counterfeit or otherwise suspect electronic parts. DARPA — the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — published a call for proposals this week that, if all goes as planned,…
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Mt. Gox Seeks Court Protection After $500 Million Bitcoin Loss
from japantimes.com: The troubled Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan Friday, with its chief executive saying it had lost nearly $500 million worth of the digital currency in a possible theft. Mark Karpeles (pictured), who has not been seen in public for several days, re-emerged to tell a press conference that…