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Wednesday June 19, 2013 @08:59PM US and Russia Set Up Cyber Cold War Hotline
Wednesday June 19, 2013 @06:38PM Amazon Vows To Fight Government Requests For Data
Tuesday June 18, 2013 @11:38AM Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You
Tuesday June 18, 2013 @11:31AM ITIF Senior Fellow Claims "America's Broadband Networks Lead the World"
Tuesday June 18, 2013 @11:30AM BitCoin Mining, Other Virtual Activity Taxable Under US Law
Monday June 17, 2013 @01:04PM China Bumps US Out of First Place For Fastest Supercomptuer
Monday June 17, 2013 @09:19AM Apple Details US Requests For Customer Data
Monday June 17, 2013 @07:39AM Officials Say NSA Probed Fewer Than 300 Numbers - Broke Plots In 20 Nations
Sunday June 16, 2013 @03:57PM Intel Streaming Media Service Faces An Uphill Battle for Bandwidth
Sunday June 16, 2013 @11:26AM Snowden NSA Claims Partially Confirmed, Says Rep. Jerrold Nadler
Sunday June 16, 2013 @10:18AM Proposed Rule Would Drastically Restrict Chimp Research
Sunday June 16, 2013 @09:14AM NY and SF Mayors Announce Joint Tech Summits
Thursday June 13, 2013 @09:20AM Google Asks Government For More Transparency, Other Groups Push Back Against NSA
Thursday June 13, 2013 @08:36AM Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC
Wednesday June 12, 2013 @08:25PM New Bill Would Declassify FISC Opinions
Monday June 10, 2013 @11:16PM Majority of Americans Say NSA Phone Tracking Is OK To Fight Terrorism
Monday June 10, 2013 @07:34AM USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden
Sunday June 09, 2013 @03:58PM NSA WhistleBlower Outs Himself
Sunday June 09, 2013 @03:55PM NSA WhistleBlower Outs Himself
Sunday June 09, 2013 @03:58AM Inside PRISM: Why the Government Hates Encryption
Sunday June 09, 2013 @01:28AM NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress
Saturday June 08, 2013 @08:50AM Canadians, Too, Should Demand Surveillance Answers
Thursday June 06, 2013 @08:58PM NHTSA and DOT Want Your Car To Be Able To Disable Your Cellphone Functions
Thursday June 06, 2013 @07:54PM US Mining Data Directly From 9 Silicon Valley Companies
Thursday June 06, 2013 @02:13PM The NSA: Never Not Watching
Thursday June 06, 2013 @09:10AM Lenovo Announces Grand Opening of US Manufacturing Facility
Wednesday June 05, 2013 @09:40PM Verizon Ordered To Provide All Customer Data To NSA
Wednesday June 05, 2013 @06:44AM U.S. District Judge: Forced Decryption of Hard Drives Violates Fifth Amendment
Tuesday June 04, 2013 @01:24PM White House Announces Reforms Targeting Patent Trolls
Tuesday June 04, 2013 @02:20AM SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest
Sunday June 02, 2013 @01:59PM Activist Admits To Bugging US Senate Minority Leader
Friday May 31, 2013 @08:08PM Kim Dotcom Wins Case Against NZ Police To Get Seized Material Back
Friday May 31, 2013 @07:20PM TSA Finishes Removing "Virtual Nude" X-Ray Devices From US Airports
Thursday May 30, 2013 @10:48PM DARPA Unveils an Android-Based Ground Sensor Device
Thursday May 30, 2013 @04:36PM DOJ Fights To Bury Court Ruling On Government Surveillance
Thursday May 30, 2013 @12:27PM 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype
Tuesday May 28, 2013 @12:30PM Iranian Hackers Probe US Infrastructure Targets
Tuesday May 28, 2013 @09:28AM Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs
Monday May 27, 2013 @07:35AM Why Google's Display Ad Business Drew FTC Antitrust Probe
Monday May 27, 2013 @12:06AM US Entertainment Industry To Congress: Make It Legal For Us To Deploy Rootkits
Sunday May 26, 2013 @01:56PM Why DOJ Didn't Need a "Super Search Warrant" To Snoop On Fox News' E-mail
Saturday May 25, 2013 @07:50AM Ex-Marine Detained Under Operation Vigilant Eagle For His Political Views Sues
Friday May 24, 2013 @05:49PM White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care
Tuesday May 21, 2013 @08:03AM Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds
Saturday May 18, 2013 @10:17AM Fed. Appeals Court Says Police Need Warrant to Search Phone
Saturday May 18, 2013 @08:33AM FBI Considers CALEA II: Mandatory Wiretapping On Every Device
Friday May 17, 2013 @09:42PM Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns
Friday May 17, 2013 @10:25AM Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists
Wednesday May 15, 2013 @06:13PM Justice Department Calls Apple the "Ringmaster" In e-book Price Fixing Case
Tuesday May 14, 2013 @09:06PM Russia Captures Alleged American CIA Agent In Moscow
Monday May 13, 2013 @03:27PM Did Internet Sales Tax Backers Bribe Congress? (Video)
Monday May 13, 2013 @10:05AM Smartphones Driving Violent Crime Across US
Sunday May 12, 2013 @07:58AM Congress Wants Federal Government To Sell 1755-1780 MHz Spectrum Band
Friday May 10, 2013 @07:12PM IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election
Thursday May 09, 2013 @06:07PM Obama Announces Open Data Policy With Executive Order
Thursday May 09, 2013 @03:49PM DoD Descends On DEFCAD
Monday May 06, 2013 @08:15AM Bruce Schneier: Why Collecting More Data Doesn't Increase Safety
Monday May 06, 2013 @08:14AM Syria Buys Dell PCs Despite Sanctions
Monday May 06, 2013 @08:09AM USAF Hypersonic Scramjet Successfully Scrams
Sunday May 05, 2013 @07:29PM Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't
Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:51AM US Officials Rebuke India's Request To Subpoena Facebook, Google
Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:13AM Paul's Call To Abolish the TSA, One Year Later
Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:11AM Paul's Call To Abolish the TSA, One Year Later
Friday May 03, 2013 @07:51PM Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun
Thursday May 02, 2013 @06:25PM Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams
Thursday May 02, 2013 @12:19PM Putin Reportedly Comments On T-Platform Supercomputer Flap
Tuesday April 30, 2013 @11:44AM Variably Sunny: SCOTUS Allows Local FOIA Restrictions
Monday April 29, 2013 @09:15PM SOPA Creator Now In Charge of NSF Grants
Monday April 29, 2013 @10:20AM Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs
Sunday April 28, 2013 @08:21AM Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship
Friday April 26, 2013 @08:18AM CISPA Seems Dead In the US Senate
Thursday April 25, 2013 @11:05PM CenturyLink Providing DoD's Equivalent of Internet2
Wednesday April 24, 2013 @11:12PM House Judiciary Chairman Plans Comprehensive Review of US Copyright Law
Wednesday April 24, 2013 @12:14PM Federal Magistrate Rules That Fifth Amendment Applies To Encryption Keys
Wednesday April 24, 2013 @09:38AM HTC Does What Google Wouldn't: Sell an LTE Phone That Sidesteps AT&T
Tuesday April 23, 2013 @08:19AM RCMP Says Terror Plot Against Canadian Trains Thwarted
Monday April 22, 2013 @10:37AM State Secrets, No-Fly List Showdown Looms
Sunday April 21, 2013 @11:41AM Senate To Vote On Internet Sales Tax (For Real This Time)
Saturday April 20, 2013 @10:20PM TSA Accepting Public Comments On Whole Body Airport Screening
Saturday April 20, 2013 @12:43PM Bruce Schneier On the Marathon Bomber Manhunt
Friday April 19, 2013 @08:57PM Police Capture Second Marathon Bombing Suspect in Watertown, Mass.
Thursday April 18, 2013 @01:39PM CISPA Passes US House, Despite Privacy Shortcomings and Promised Veto
Wednesday April 17, 2013 @07:58PM Rep. Mike Rogers Dismisses CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeter On the Internet"
Wednesday April 17, 2013 @01:07PM Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President
Monday April 15, 2013 @04:58AM Some States Dropping GED Tests Due To Price Spikes
Sunday April 14, 2013 @06:39PM DARPA Cyber Chief "Mudge" Zatko Going To Google
Sunday April 14, 2013 @11:12AM NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs
Sunday April 14, 2013 @08:45AM Guantanamo Hearings Delayed as Legal Files Vanish
Friday April 12, 2013 @07:36AM Zuckerberg Lobbies For More Liberal Immigration Policies
Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:17PM FDA Approves Software For iPhone-Based Vision Test
Thursday April 11, 2013 @05:39PM US Gov't Blocks Sales To Russian Supercomputer Maker
Thursday April 11, 2013 @07:46AM Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness
Wednesday April 10, 2013 @11:55AM Iranians, Russians, and Chinese Hackers Are After You, Says Lawmaker
Tuesday April 09, 2013 @11:15AM "The Kissinger Cables": WikiLeaks Releases 1.7M Historical Records
Monday April 08, 2013 @06:09PM Is $100 Million Per Year Too Little For The Brain Map Initiative?
Monday April 08, 2013 @04:28PM Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014
Monday April 08, 2013 @09:45AM Study Suggests Patent Office Lowered Standards To Cope With Backlog
Sunday April 07, 2013 @12:11AM Korea Tensions Lead To Delay Of Minuteman III Test Flight
Saturday April 06, 2013 @11:42PM NASA's Bolden: No American-Led Return To the Moon 'In My Lifetime'
Friday April 05, 2013 @06:22PM H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad
Thursday April 04, 2013 @02:25PM Want to Keep Messages From the Feds? Use iMessage
Thursday April 04, 2013 @01:38PM TSA Log Shows Passengers Say the Darndest Things
Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:52PM New CFAA Could Subject Teens To Jail For Reading Online News
Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:15PM Should the US Really Limit Chinese-Government Influenced IT Systems?
Tuesday April 02, 2013 @12:08PM FTC Awards $50k In Prizes To Cut Off Exasperating Robocalls
Saturday March 30, 2013 @07:38AM United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea
Saturday March 30, 2013 @03:19AM DOJ, MIT, JSTOR Seek Anonymity in Swartz Case
Friday March 29, 2013 @04:45PM US and Russia Lead List of Malware Hosts
Thursday March 28, 2013 @04:16PM Google Pledges Not To Sue Any Open Source Projects Using Their Patents
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @10:23AM PlanetIQ's Plan: Swap US Weather Sats For Private Ones
Monday March 25, 2013 @01:34PM NYC's Bloomberg On Drones: "Scary" But Inevitable
Monday March 25, 2013 @10:34AM Massachusetts May Try To Tax the Cloud
Sunday March 24, 2013 @10:11PM Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS
Sunday March 24, 2013 @04:54PM IRS Spent $60,000 Producing Star Trek Parody
Sunday March 24, 2013 @02:46PM TechCrunch:Expanded DMCA Still Has Limits
Sunday March 24, 2013 @09:28AM FCC Chair Genachowski Resigns; What Effect on Net Regulation?
Sunday March 24, 2013 @08:55AM Should Congress Telecommute?
Saturday March 23, 2013 @09:35PM Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo
Saturday March 23, 2013 @06:25PM 'Energy Beet' Power Is Coming To America
Saturday March 23, 2013 @02:35PM US Senate Passes National Internet Sales Tax Mandate
Saturday March 23, 2013 @02:26PM US Senate passes national Internet sales tax mandate
Saturday March 23, 2013 @09:18AM Florida House Passes Bill To Ban "Internet Cafes"
Friday March 22, 2013 @11:31PM Meteor Streaks Over American East Coast
Friday March 22, 2013 @09:41PM US Gov't To Scan More Civilian Infrastructure Traffic
Friday March 22, 2013 @06:03PM Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users
Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:51PM Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate
Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:29PM Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate
Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:26PM Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report
Thursday March 21, 2013 @11:29AM Possible Chemical Weapons Use In Syria
Thursday March 21, 2013 @10:20AM Digging Into the Legal Status of 3-D Printed Guns
Thursday March 21, 2013 @08:20AM CIA To Hand Over Drone Program To Pentagon?
Thursday March 21, 2013 @08:03AM Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @10:58PM Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason
Tuesday March 19, 2013 @11:04AM Supreme Court Upholds First Sale Doctrine
Monday March 18, 2013 @07:54PM Aaron Swartz's Estate Seeks Release of Documents
Sunday March 17, 2013 @11:36PM Aaron Swartz's Estate Seeks Release of Documents
Friday March 15, 2013 @07:28AM US Cyber Command Discloses Offensive Cyberwarfare Capabilities
Friday March 15, 2013 @07:15AM NASA Restarts Plutonium Production
Thursday March 14, 2013 @05:57PM 10 Ways To Celebrate International Pi Day
Thursday March 14, 2013 @10:20AM H&R Block Software Glitch To Delay 600,000 U.S. Tax Refunds
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @12:53PM Bruce Schneier: A Cyber Cold War Could Destabilize the Internet
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @10:53AM Bruce Schneier: A Cyber Cold War" Could Destabilize the Internet
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @09:18AM What If Manning Had Leaked To the New York Times?
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @12:30AM Should Mary Jo White Be Asked About Aaron Swartz?
Monday March 11, 2013 @06:40PM Nuclear Arms Cuts, Supported By 56% of Americans, Would Make the World Safer
Saturday March 09, 2013 @04:58PM Sugar industry's secret docs echo Big Tobacco's anti-science tactics
Friday March 08, 2013 @10:37PM Court: 4th Amendment Applies At Border, Password Protected Files Not Suspicious
Friday March 08, 2013 @09:33PM Mass. Bill Would Put Privacy Squeeze on Cloud Apps For Schools
Friday March 08, 2013 @09:16PM US CompSci Enrollment Leaps For 5th Straight Year
Thursday March 07, 2013 @02:13PM Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location
Thursday March 07, 2013 @09:33AM North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike
Thursday March 07, 2013 @09:06AM Hockey Sticks Among Carry-On Items TSA Has Cleared For Planes
Wednesday March 06, 2013 @09:07PM US Attorney General Defends Handling of Aaron Swartz Case
Wednesday March 06, 2013 @05:49PM Ran Paul Launches a Real Life Filibuster Against Drones
Wednesday March 06, 2013 @01:06AM Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy
Tuesday March 05, 2013 @01:16AM The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz
Saturday March 02, 2013 @08:49AM With 'Obamacare' Kicking In, Microsoft Sees a Health-Data Windfall
Friday March 01, 2013 @10:55PM Cablevision Suing Viacom Over Cable Bundling
Friday March 01, 2013 @08:07PM Criticism Of Copyright Alert System Mounts
Friday March 01, 2013 @10:21AM Chinese Hackers Target US Gas Pipelines in Die Hard-Style Attack
Thursday February 28, 2013 @05:49PM When It's Time To Scale, US Manufacturing Hits a Wall
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @01:22PM Federal Court OKs Amazon's System of Suggesting Alternative Products
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @04:13AM Helena Airport Manager Blocks TSA From Taking Full-Body Scanner
Monday February 25, 2013 @02:07PM Airport Manager Won't Let TSA Replace Body Scanner With Magnetometer
Sunday February 24, 2013 @08:25AM There Is Plenty To Cut At the Pentagon
Saturday February 23, 2013 @09:07PM U.S. Reps Chu and Coble Start Intellectual Property Caucus
Saturday February 23, 2013 @11:29AM White House Tells Agencies To Increase Access to Fed-Funded Research
Friday February 22, 2013 @07:50PM Carmakers Oppose Opening Up 5GHZ Spectrum Space For Unlicensed Wi-Fi
Friday February 22, 2013 @10:16AM The US Redrawn As 50 Equally Populated States
Friday February 22, 2013 @08:32AM Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online
Thursday February 21, 2013 @02:14PM USPS To Launch Line of Smart Clothing
Thursday February 21, 2013 @12:07PM White House Petition To Make Unlocking Phones Legal Passes 100,000 Signatures
Thursday February 21, 2013 @10:22AM Got a Cell Phone Booster? FCC Says You Have To Turn It Off
Thursday February 21, 2013 @09:30AM CT State Senator Wants To Ban Kids From Using Arcade Guns
Sunday February 17, 2013 @12:56PM Publisher Sues University Librarian Over His Personal Blog Posts
Sunday February 17, 2013 @12:17PM Edwin Mellen Press sues University Librarian over his personal blog posts
Sunday February 17, 2013 @04:53AM Tax Peculiarities Mean Facebook Paid No Net Taxes For 2012
Saturday February 16, 2013 @12:12PM Can Dell and HP Keep Pace With An Asia-Centric PC World?
Friday February 15, 2013 @08:51PM Congress Takes Up Online Sales Tax
Friday February 15, 2013 @04:19PM Ask Slashdot: Is the Bar Being Lowered At Universities?
Wednesday February 13, 2013 @09:59PM New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers
Wednesday February 13, 2013 @08:51PM Pentagon' Distinguished Warefare Medal: for cyber attacks and drone wars
Monday February 11, 2013 @08:54AM Should Techies Trump All Others In Immigration Reform?
Monday February 11, 2013 @06:36AM Should the Start of Chinese New Year Be a Federal Holiday?
Sunday February 10, 2013 @07:53PM Should Techies Trump Latinos in Immigration Reform?
Sunday February 10, 2013 @04:27PM Corn Shortage Hampers US Ethanol Production
Sunday February 10, 2013 @09:42AM Rapiscan's Backscatter Machines May End Up In US Federal Buildings
Saturday February 09, 2013 @12:24PM Rapiscan's "backscatter" nude-o-scopes coming to federal buildings
Friday February 08, 2013 @08:54PM DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS
Wednesday February 06, 2013 @02:00PM US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery
Tuesday February 05, 2013 @11:39AM Leaked: Obama's Rules For Assassinating American Citizens
Monday February 04, 2013 @01:42PM FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi
Monday February 04, 2013 @10:14AM The Top Paying Tech Companies For Interns
Saturday February 02, 2013 @11:45PM Internet-Deprived Kids Turning to 'McLibraries'
Friday February 01, 2013 @09:18PM Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul
Friday February 01, 2013 @08:43AM EU Citizens Warned Not To Use US Cloud Services Over Spying Fears
Thursday January 31, 2013 @06:16PM EU citizens warned not to use US Cloud services over Spying fears
Wednesday January 30, 2013 @03:04PM Senate Proposes Dramatic Increase in H-1B Visa
Tuesday January 29, 2013 @01:56PM DARPA Seeks To Secure Data With Electronics That Dissolve On Command
Tuesday January 29, 2013 @01:08PM Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami

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