Denial-of-service attacks beginning in the morning and stretching into the afternoon shut down major websites across the internet today, as DNS service company Dyn was hit by at least three apparently targeted strikes…
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How Could NSA Contractor Harold Martin Have Been Taking Home Classified Info For 20 Years Without NSA Noticing?…
A few weeks back, we wrote about the arrest of Harold Martin, an NSA contractor working at Booz Allen, for apparently taking “highly classified information” from the NSA and storing it electronically and physically in his home…
All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Hardware Capable of Level 4 Autonomy…
A validation period of unspecified length will be required before the fully autonomous features become available. Here’s a sentence in the press release that’s worth noting…
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Platforms Like Facebook’s Instant Articles and Google AMP Are Making it Harder, Not Easier, to Publish to the Web…
Creating content for these formats reintroduces a coding requirement, and online code is vastly more complicated today than it was in the mid-1990s…
Study: 1 in 2 American Adults Already In Facial Recognition Network…
“Looking at the sum total of what we found, there have been no laws that comprehensively regulate face recognition technology, and there’s really no case law either”…
Feds Walk Into A Building. Demand Everyone’s Fingerprints To Open Phones…
California’s top cops asked to enter a residence and force anyone inside to use their biometric information to open their mobile devices…
Hubble Reveals Observable Universe Contains 10 Times More Galaxies Than Previously Thought…
The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories…
UK Security Agencies Unlawfully Collected Data for Decade…
British security agencies have secretly and unlawfully collected massive volumes of confidential personal data, including financial information, on citizens for more than a decade…
Mozilla Partnered With Voter Registration Group Teaming With Democratic Data Firm…
The “nonpartisan” voter registration group that partnered with Mozilla Firefox to register new voters for the November elections is affiliated with a Democratic data firm…
The World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Train…
The world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train has been unveiled this week by French transport company Alstom, which will be operating the incredibly quiet and environmentally friendly…
Overheated Samsung Device Blamed in Southwest Plane Evacuation…
A Samsung smartphone exploded Wednesday on a Southwest Airlines plane at Louisville International Airport, forcing dozens to be evacuated…
How American Companies Enable NSA Surveillance…Like, YAHOO!!!!…
Without the cooperation of American companies — both voluntary and compelled — the National Security Agency’s system of mass surveillance simply would not have been possible…
Yahoo Reports On Yahoo Secretly Scanning All Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence Agencies…
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
Judge Says No Way To Attorneys General Looking To Block Internet Transition…
A judge has flatly denied their request for an injunction meaning that the transition is a go for midnight tonight, barring any really last minute unforeseen methods to block it…
State Attorney’s General Sue to Stop Obama’s Internet Transition…
Four Republican state attorneys general are suing to stop the Obama administration from transferring oversight of the internet to an international body, arguing the transition would violate the U.S. Constitution…
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Internet Security Experts Warn YAHOO Password Breach Could Have ‘Ripple Effects’ for Millions…
As investors and investigators weigh the damage of Yahoo’s massive breach to the internet icon, information security experts worry that the record-breaking haul of password data could be used to open locks up and down the web.
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Norwegian Court Rules Against Extradition Exemption for Snowden…
The Norwegian Court of Appeal rejected a free passage lawsuit from US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden against the country’s government that would…
A Voice Cuts Through, and Adds to, the Intrigue of Recent Electoral Cyberattacks…
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BEWARE: Adblock Plus, Created to Protect Users From Ads, Instead Opens the Door…
Adblock Plus, an ad blocker now used on more than 100 million devices, started out as an almost utopian idea a decade ago. Wladimir Palant, a 20-something developer who was annoyed with intrusive ads online…
Real Headline: “Get Ready for Freeways That Ban Human Drivers”
Sure, they lead with the safety argument, but what you’re going to wind up with is something like this–Didn’t pay taxes? “Driving disabled. Would you like to pay overdue taxes, penalties, fees and interest now?”…
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