Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Australian ISP’s against government crackdown on piracy
from afr.com: Australia’s leading internet service providers have hit out at proposals by Attorney-General George Brandis to stop internet piracy as being a “political thought-bubble” and burden on the industry that won’t stop crime. Senator Brandis last week said the government was considering the introduction of graduated warnings scheme, known in the industry as a…
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Germany to beef up counter-espionage against US, Western allies – report
from rt.com: Following decades of a heavily subdued program, Germany is planning to resume counter-espionage against both the US and other Western allies in response to ongoing revelations surrounding NSA’s global surveillance practices, Der Spiegel reports. Another primary motivation for the resumption of surveillance is US reluctance to agree to a no-mutual-spying treaty desired by…
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No Evidence of ‘Coffee Break’ on Mars
from nytimes.com: Scientists did not find a Dunkin’ Donuts on Mars, but they did figure out where a rock that looks like a small jelly doughnut came from. Last month, the rock, about an inch and a half wide, showed up in one of the photographs taken by the NASA’s Opportunity rover. In addition to…
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Comcast, Time Warner Cable Agree to Merge in $45 Billion Deal
from washingtonpost.com: Comcast’s $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable would create a cable television behemoth in an industry that has steadily increased prices for bundles of channels and services that many consumers dislike but feel forced to buy. But the merger would have far greater implications for the future of media and communications, with…
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Hacked Veterans Site Could Be Compromising ‘Military Intelligence’
from nextgov.com: A cyberattack against the Veteran of Foreign Wars website, believed to have been initiated in China, may have sought to spy on U.S. military members, security company FireEye said Thursday. FireEye said the attack, which has now been fixed on VFW.org, exploited a zero-day flaw in the Internet Explorer 10 browser. The company…
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Facebook Offers Users More Online Gender Identities
from seattletimes.com: Facebook said the changes initially will cover the company’s 159 million monthly users in the U.S. and are aimed at giving people more choices in how they describe themselves, such as androgynous, bi-gender, intersex, gender fluid or transsexual.
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Nuclear Fusion Reactions Mark a ‘Milestone’
from latimes.com: It took 192 lasers and a building big enough to contain three football fields, but physicists have finally produced a pair of nuclear fusion reactions that created more energy than was in the fuel to start with. The reactions lasted less than a billionth of a second, and they released only a few…
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DARPA Developing Hypersonic Plane
from blacklistednews.com: The United States military is making progress toward developing a new unmanned space plane, which it aims to begin flight-testing in 2017. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to award the first design contracts for the vehicle project — known as Experimental Spaceplane, or XS-1 — in May or thereabouts, officials…
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Vietnam’s Flappy Bird Developer: It Was ‘An Addictive Product’
from thediplomat.com: After millions of downloads, Flappy Bird has vanished from the App Store and Google Play. Dong Nguyen, the game’s Vietnamese developer, permanently grounded Flappy Bird – a title that was allegedly bringing him $50,000 a week in ad revenue – in an apparent bid to clear his conscience. “Flappy Bird was designed to…
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NYPD Ogles Google Glass Specs
from cnn.com: The New York Police Department has procured two pair of Google Glass specs, the experimental head-mounted computers, to determine possible applications to police work, the department said in a statement. The technology feeds information directly to the eye-line of the wearer, potentially saving officers time from having to stop what they’re doing in…
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NASA, France Sign Mars Lander Deal for 2016
from smh.com.au: The United States and France plan to collaborate on a new Mars mission, two years after NASA withdrew from a European partnership to send a probe and lander to the Red Planet. The project aims to send an unmanned lander to study the deep interior of the dry, dusty planet, and will be…
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“The Day We Fight Back”: #StopTheNSA Protest Declared for Feb 11
from slashgear.com: In honor of the late programmer and activist Aaron Swartz and in light of information contained in documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the EFF, Free Press, Demand Progress, and other entities will be holding a day of anti-NSA mass spying protests on February 11. The day is being called “The Day We Fight…
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Japan-Based Bitcoin Exchange Glitch Unsettles World
from online.wsj.com: Prices of bitcoin have recently fluctuated on factors ranging from government regulation to the virtual currency’s acceptance by real-world retailers. Now add another driver: perceived technical glitches. A leading bitcoin exchange Monday blamed a long-unresolved technical issue for its decision to abruptly halt customer withdrawals last week. Prices of bitcoin were sent reeling…
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Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charged With Laundering $1 Million Through Silk Road
from wired.com: The CEO of Bitcoin exchanger BitInstant has been arrested and charged with money laundering over allegations that he and another man sold more than $1 million in Bitcoins to buyers and sellers of drugs on the underground drug site Silk Road. Charlie Shrem (pictured), 24, who ran BitInstant out of New York, is…
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Concerns over privacy raised in wake of Osaka facial recognition experiment
from apperspective.net: Privacy concerns have been raised over an upcoming surveillance project slated to take place at the Osaka Station. A 2-year experiment that involves monitoring the movements of people arriving at the Osaka train station through a facial recognition system. The test will be conducted by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology,…