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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch - Kennedy Space Center (10-11-17)

Might be a surveillance satellite.

'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for …

Internet Of Everything: The Best Definition You Will Find

The Internet of Everything (IoE) incorporates the Internet of Things and everything else into a single architecture. If you don’t understand what Cloud Computing and Fog Computing are, then you must …

Robot Cheetahs and The Post-Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima | VIDEO

The latest version of MIT’s Cheetah robot made its stage debut today at TC Sessions: Robotics in Cambridge, Mass. It’s a familiar project to anyone who follows the industry with any sort of re…

John McAfee On WikiLeaks Dump: CIA Operation "Cherry Blossom" Hacking Residential Routers

Privacy, Control & the Darknet – Alex Winter with Abby Martin

No, The MP3 Isn't Dead

When the "death of the MP3" started being reported, we were among the very few blogs that said umm, no — but the deluge of eulogies for the still-thriving format has been overwhelming and q…

Scientists have found a way to photograph people in 3D through walls using Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi can pass through walls. This fact is easy to take for granted, yet it's the reason we can surf the web using a wireless router located in another room. But not all of that microwave radiati…

Federal Agents Are Now Using ‘Stingrays’ to Track and Capture Undocumented Immigrants

In March, US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deployed a cell-site simulator, often colloquially referred to as a “Stingray,” to track a Michigan man in the country illegally, according to …

HP laptops covertly log user keystrokes, researchers warn

HP is selling more than two dozen models of laptops and tablets that covertly monitor every keystroke a user makes, security researchers warned Thursday. The devices then store the key presses in an …

An NSA-derived ransomware worm is shutting down computers worldwide

Wcry uses weapons-grade exploit published by the NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers. A highly virulent new strain of self-replicating ransomware shut down computers all over the world, in part by appropriati…

Leaked NSA Malware Is Helping Hijack Computers Around the World

According to experts tracking and analyzing the worm and its spread, this could be one of the worst-ever recorded attacks of its kind. The security researcher who tweets and blogs as MalwareTech told…

Hundreds of Apps Using Ultrasonic Signals to Silently Track Smartphone Users

Your smartphone may have some apps that are continuously listening inaudible, high-frequency ultrasonic sounds from your surroundings and they know where you go, what you like and dislike — all witho…

Inside the 'Stalkerware' Surveillance Market, Where Ordinary People Tap Each Other's Phones

This story is part of When Spies Come Home , a Motherboard series about powerful surveillance software ordinary people use to spy on their loved ones. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/insid…

WikiLeaks just dropped the CIA’s secret how-to for infecting Windows

WikiLeaks has published what it says is another batch of secret hacking manuals belonging to the US Central Intelligence Agency as part of its Vault7 series of leaks. The site is billing Vault7 as t…

WIKILEAKS RELEASE: CIA malware for Windows "Grasshopper"

Today, April 7th 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 "Grasshopper" -- 27 documents from the CIA's Grasshopper framework , a platform used to build customized malware payloads for Microsoft…

In the early 80s, CIA showed little interest in “supercomputer” craze

In 1983, cybermania would grip the nation: The movie WarGames is released over the summer, becoming a blockbuster hit for the time and intriguing President Ronald Reagan enough to summon his closest …

WIKILEAKS RELEASE: CIA Vault 7 "Dark Matter"

RELEASE: CIA #Vault7 "Dark Matter" https://t.co/drdaVhtb53 pic.twitter.com/wZUspTsJ4c — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 23, 2017 23 March, 2017 Today, March 23rd 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vau…

FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad To Increase Secret Public Surveillance

Recently unsealed records reveal a much more extensive secret relationship than previously known between the FBI and Best Buy's Geek Squad, including evidence the agency trained company technicia…

New Bill Would Force NYPD to Disclose Its Surveillance Tech Playbook

LEGISLATION INTRODUCED TODAY by New York City council members Dan Garodnick and Vanessa Gibson would finally compel the NYPD — one of the most technology-laden police forces in the country — to make …
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