Tag: technology
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chinese military hacked into pentagon
from financial times: The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American officials. The Pentagon […]
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iPod generation struggling to read & write
from daily mail: School-leavers are experts in using iPods and the Internet but often cannot add up or follow basic instructions, business leaders have claimed. They said literacy and numeracy […]
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news on the march
nsa, dod, & fbi seek hackers as alliesfrom the age: US federal agents are reaching out to computer hackers for help fighting crime and terrorism as a tug-of-war between privacy […]
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july clearinghouse
ron paul’s quixotic campaign confuses career pols gonzales’s truthfulness long disputed california city to transform red light cameras into spy cameras US agrees to $30bn defence aid deal with israel […]
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news on the march
pentagon funds gay bombs & armed sharksfrom abc: Creating armor that renders a soldier invisible. Stimulating the brain to suppress sleep for days. Arming sharks with chemical implants and cameras […]
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telecommunication breakdown
riaa uses local cops in oregon raidfrom slashdot: Fake cops employed by the RIAA started acting like real police officers quite a while ago — one of the earliest examples […]
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google ranked ‘worst’ on privacy
from bbc: Google has the worst privacy policy of popular net firms, says a report. Rights group Privacy International rated the search giant as “hostile” to privacy in a report […]
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robobear rescues wounded troops
from cryptogon/bbc: The US military is developing a robot with a teddy bear-style head to help carry injured soldiers away from the battlefield. The Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR) can […]
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darpa to create brain-chipped cyborg moths
from cryptogon/register uk: Famed US military mad-scientist bureau DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is engaged in an effort to grow/build cyborg moths for use as spies. No, really. […]
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today is ‘wiretap the internet day’
from wired: May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with […]
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who watches the watchers in surveillance society?
from information week: In some cities in Europe and the United States, a person can be videotaped by surveillance cameras hundreds of times a day, and it’s safe to say […]
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google: disabling the politically incorrect
from kurt nimmo: As Raw Story tells us, Google has finally addressed link bombs, attempts to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search […]
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air force chief: test weapons on testy US mobs
from ap: Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday. […]