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Yet Another Tesla Self-Driving Car Crashes Killing Driver…
A man has died after his ‘autopilot’ electric car collided with a tree and burst into flames. And firefighters then took hours to remove the Dutchman’s body from the Tesla over…
Watch How Government Spyware Infects a Computer in This Leaked Demo Video…
Just like any regular tech company, vendors such as Hacking Team or NSO Group, which sell software designed to spy on computers and cellphones, have to convince…
How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone…
Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without their knowledge? Gather their every keystroke, sound, message and location? That will cost you $650,000, plus a $500,000 setup fee…
New Docs Show How the NSA Used the Iraq War to Build its Surveillance Apparatus…
The NSA asked its employees for “unprecedented degrees of cooperation” to set up the global surveillance infrastructure revealed by Edward Snowden with the stated aim of combating terrorism worldwide…
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Inside Menwith Hill: The NSA’s British Base at the Heart of U.S. Targeted Killing…
Menwith Hill Station — Originally used to monitor Soviet communications through the Cold War,…, and today it is a vital part of the NSA’s sprawling global surveillance network.
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‘Conspiracy Not Journalism’: Wikileaks Blasts NYT Hit on ‘Russian Intel’ Behind DNC Hack…
“The only hard news in the article is that ‘American officials say Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks probably have no direct ties to Russian intelligence services,’” the website responded in a statement…
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CIA Director Misled FBI About How Agency Spied on Pentagon Papers Leaker…
CIA Director Richard Helms misled the FBI in June 1972 to cover up his agency’s role in helping to smear the reputation of Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked a secret history of the Vietnam War to the press…
Hacker ‘Guccifer’ Who Revealed Clinton’s Private Email Server Gets 4+ Years in Jail…
The Romanian hacker “Guccifer,” who exposed Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, was sentenced to 52 months by a US federal judge in Virginia…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes on Cape Canaveral — Blows Up Facebook’s £150M Internet Satellite…
An explosion rocked a SpaceX launch site on Thursday during a routine rocket test. SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred…
FBI’s Super-Duper-Secret Stingray Quickly Found Suspect After Local Cops’ Device Couldn’t…
According to new government affidavits filed earlier this week, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) used its stingray without a warrant in 2013 for several hours overnight…
How Would Facebook Know to Recommend This Psychiatrist’s Patients to Each Other?…
Facebook’s ability to figure out the “people we might know” is sometimes eerie. Many a Facebook user has been creeped out when a one-time…
Ha! They Really Do Know What We’re Saying…
They found that dogs processed words with the left hemisphere, while intonation was processed with the right hemisphere — just like humans…
The FBI’s Megaupload Domains Are Now Hosting Porn Ads…
Well, we know the FBI is particularly adept at hosting porn on the internet. After all, just a few days ago it was revealed that in the short time it was running a child porn site…
Government Hackers Caught Using Unprecedented iPhone Spy Tool on Human Rights Activists…
On the morning of August 10, Ahmed Mansoor, a 46-year-old human rights activist from the United Arab Emirates, received a strange text message from a number he did not recognize…
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The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm…
On Monday, a hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” announced an auction for what it claimed were “cyber weapons” made by the NSA…
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Julian Assange ‘Assassination’ Claimed After Foiled Ecuadorian Embassy Break-in…
Speculation over an attempt on the life of Wikileaks founder and political refugee Julian Assange is rife today after a man was detected scaling the wall of…
How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet…
They’re turning the web into a cesspool of aggression and violence. What watching them is doing to the rest of us may be even worse…
China Launches World’s 1st ‘Hack-Proof’ Quantum Communication Satellite…
China has launched the world’s first quantum communications satellite into orbit aboard a Long March-2D rocket earlier today in order to test the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics at space…
Former NSA Staffers: Rogue Insider Could Be Behind NSA Data Dump…
There are a lot of unanswered questions surrounding the shocking dump of a slew of hacking tools used by an NSA-linked group earlier this week. But perhaps the biggest one is…
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