Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Twitter Working on New Feature to Allow Users to Edit Tweets
from foxnews.com: Twitter is working on a new feature which will allow users to edit their tweets, the The Desk reported. Three sources who identified themselves as Twitter employees, revealed exclusively to The Desk that the social networking site has been working on a project that will allow users to make “slight changes” to the…
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Bots now account for 61% of web traffic
from bbc.co.uk: If you are visiting this page the chances are that you are not a human, at least according to research. A study by Incapsula suggests 61.5% of all website traffic is now generated by bots. The security firm said that was a 21% rise on last year’s figure of 51%. Some of these…
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#Google ‘Accidentally’ Removes Vital #Privacy Feature From #Android Devices
from EFF.org: Yesterday, we published a blog post lauding an extremely important app privacy feature that was added in Android 4.3. That feature allows users to install apps while preventing the app from collecting sensitive data like the user’s location or address book. After we published the post, several people contacted us to say that…
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Hubble Detects Water Vapor Over Europa’s South Pole
from scitechdaily.com: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter’s moon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off the moon’s surface. Previous scientific findings from other sources already point to the existence of an ocean located under Europa’s icy crust. Researchers are not…
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Chinese spacecraft lands on the moon
from euronews.com: China has reportedly landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon on Saturday. The Chang’e 3, a probe named after a lunar goddess in traditional Chinese mythology, is carrying a buggy called Yutu or Jade Rabbit. It will dig and conduct geological surveys. The country’s official news service reported that the spacecraft had touched…
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Google Buys DARPA-funded Robotics Firm Boston Dynamics
from truthstreammedia.com: Google has announced that it has purchased Boston Dynamics, the engineering firm which has produced all those creepy dystopian future robots for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), such as the Big Dog (a dog robot that can throw cinder blocks with an arm coming out of its head), Cheetah (the world’s…
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Panic as Thousands Receive ‘Fines’ For Streaming RedTube Videos
from torrentfreak.com: In recent days thousands of Internet users have received letters demanding 250 euros to settle online copyright infringement allegations. What is particularly strange about this case, however, is that the targets are all said to be users of RedTube, a site that streams (adult) videos in a way not dissimilar to YouTube. But…
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Even Your Avatar Can’t Escape NSA Surveillance
from aclu.org: It seems that literally no one is safe from the NSA. Even digital alter egos living in fantasy realms in the online gaming world are being caught up in the NSA’s surveillance dragnet. A newly leaked internal document reveals that the NSA and British intelligence agency GCHQ have developed mass collection capabilities enabling…
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24-hour Drone Surveillance to Be Imposed on Sochi Olympics
from rawstory.com: The spider-like helicopter can whirr up straight into the sky, hover over cars and people, zoom in on a license plate and then take a close-up of a man’s face in the crowd. If there is suspicious movement at Russia’s Sochi Winter Olympic Games next year, surveillance drones positioned over stadiums, roads and…
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DARPA Designs Giant Foldable Satellite Capable of Surveilling 40% of Earth at Once
from dailymail.co.uk: The Pentagon has designed a massive spy satellite that will dwarf any space telescope ever launched – and it point its sensitive lens back at us. The Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) will be capable of capturing 40 percent of the surface of the Earth at once. It will be able…
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Russia Warns of Nuclear Response to US Global Strike Program
from en.ria.ru: A senior government minister warned Wednesday that Russia could retaliate with a nuclear strike if a new US military strategy threatened its security. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that Russia was “preparing a response” to plans by the United States to develop a new fast-strike weapons platform capable of hitting high-priority targets…
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Tech Giants Call on #Obama, #Congress to Rein in Internet Spy Programs
from mercurynews.com: In an unusual joint statement, leading Internet companies called Monday for new legal restrictions on government spy programs that the companies view as an increasing threat both to their customers’ privacy and their own business interests. “The U.S. government should take this opportunity to lead this reform effort and make things right,” Facebook…
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#Twitter, #Facebook Demand Sweeping Changes to US #Surveillance
from theguardian.com: The world’s leading technology companies have united to demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws, urging an international ban on bulk collection of data to help preserve the public’s “trust in the internet”. In their most concerted response yet to disclosures by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook,…
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Rocket roars to life at Vandenberg with secret orbital payload
from latimes.com: A 19-story-tall rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base late Thursday night, carrying a secret payload for the U.S. government. An Atlas V rocket blasted off from Space Launch Complex 3 at 11:15 p.m. PST, lighting up the night sky as it roared into orbit. The mission was carried out by United Launch…
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Astronomers Discover Planet That Shouldn’t Be There
from phys.org: An international team of astronomers, led by a University of Arizona graduate student, has discovered the most distantly orbiting planet found to date around a single, sun-like star. It is the first exoplanet – a planet outside of our solar system – discovered at the UA.