To celebrate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, wouldn't it be nice if our government stopped pushing wiretapping to increase our vulnerability? The warm fuzzy feeling of security and privacy seemed considerably less reassuring after FBI Director Robert Mueller called for more surveillance an... Read more...
DOJ powerpoint presentation on Hotwatch surveillance orders of credit card transactionsIt should surprise very few to learn that federal law enforcement agencies track Americans without getting court orders, but this time the feds have been tracking U.S. residents using real-time surveillance ... Read more...
Google is suing the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) over a bid for a new hosted e-mail system which Google claims unfairly benefits Microsoft. The suit, filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on October 29, calls out the DOI for not considering Google Apps in its Request for Quotation ... Read more...
Mac vs PC Short Film HDRip English | 47mins | 688x288 | 25fps | XviD | MP3 131kbs | 150MB Genre: Documentary This short visual effects piece shows what really goes on inside our home computers… That’s right, they’re robots, and they wanna beat the ~censored~ out of each other.A short mov... Read more...
Google says it will no longer collect WiFi data after finding its Street View cars have been collecting personal information of citizens of different countries for the last three years. Google admits it has unintentionally snagged bits of payload data, which could include user e-mails, passwords a... Read more...
It's an effort astronomers liken to "listening to one hundred million radios, each tuned to a different channel." It's the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and it's no simple task. That’s why Dr. Jill Tarter, director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), is asking ... Read more...
Google is barnstorming the nation's capital. Five years after it opened its Washington office, the tech giant is playing an increasingly powerful role in public policy debates over everything from patent reform to foreign policy. Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) lobbied 13 government agencies last year... Read more...
(CNN) -- More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, were expected to gather around a coffin Thursday night to say goodbye to an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser, survived by its descendants Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, was to be e... Read more...
Amazon.com has agreed to pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum as part of a patent cross-licensing deal between the companies announced on Monday. The agreement gives each company access to the other's patent portfolio and covers a wide range of products and technologies, Microsoft said in a statem... Read more...