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Wednesday June 19, 2013 @11:04AM BT Chief To Become British Government Minister
Tuesday June 18, 2013 @11:30AM BitCoin Mining, Other Virtual Activity Taxable Under US Law
Tuesday June 18, 2013 @08:12AM Officials Say NSA Probed Fewer Than 300 Numbers - Broke Plots In 20 Nations
Sunday June 16, 2013 @11:07PM Saudi Arabia Set To Ban WhatsApp, Skype
Sunday June 16, 2013 @10:45PM Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76
Sunday June 16, 2013 @07:20PM Revealed: How the UK Spied On Its G20 Allies At London Summits
Sunday June 16, 2013 @01:48PM AT&T Rolls Out iPhone Wireless Emergency Alerts
Sunday June 16, 2013 @11:26AM Snowden NSA Claims Partially Confirmed, Says Rep. Jerrold Nadler
Friday June 14, 2013 @09:56PM Kickass Torrents' KAT.ph Domain Seized By Philippine Authorities
Thursday June 13, 2013 @12:32PM Ask Slashdot: How To Bypass Gov't Spying On Cellphones?
Thursday June 13, 2013 @09:20AM Google Asks Government For More Transparency, Other Groups Push Back Against NSA
Thursday June 13, 2013 @09:07AM Apple Revises Warranty Policies In Europe To Comply With EU Laws
Thursday June 13, 2013 @08:18AM FAA Wants All Aircraft Flying On Unleaded Fuel By 2018
Thursday June 13, 2013 @07:43AM New Bill Would Declassify FISC Opinions
Tuesday June 11, 2013 @08:10AM Scientists Explain Why Chairman of House Committee On Science Is Wrong
Monday June 10, 2013 @07:34AM USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden
Sunday June 09, 2013 @07:41PM British Foreign Secretary on Surveillance Worries: '"Law Abiding Citizens Have N
Sunday June 09, 2013 @01:28AM NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress
Saturday June 08, 2013 @05:05PM In Praise of the King: 1.7M Social Media Comments In Thailand
Saturday June 08, 2013 @03:45PM What Charles G. Koch Can Teach Us About Campaign Finance Data
Saturday June 08, 2013 @08:50AM Canadians, Too, Should Demand Surveillance Answers
Friday June 07, 2013 @07:21PM Inside PRISM: Why the Government Hates Encryption
Thursday June 06, 2013 @08:58PM NHTSA and DOT Want Your Car To Be Able To Disable Your Cellphone Functions
Thursday June 06, 2013 @06:27PM Saudi Arabia Blocks Viber Messaging Service
Thursday June 06, 2013 @05:29PM NSA Building $860 Million Data Center In Maryland
Thursday June 06, 2013 @05:20PM Amazon: Publishers Strong-Armed Us On E-Books
Thursday June 06, 2013 @02:13PM The NSA: Never Not Watching
Wednesday June 05, 2013 @08:45PM UK Government Spending £6,000 Per Computer Every Year To Maintain Desktops
Tuesday June 04, 2013 @01:24PM White House Announces Reforms Targeting Patent Trolls
Tuesday June 04, 2013 @01:22PM Labor Dept. Wanted $1M For E-mail Addresses of Political Appointees
Monday June 03, 2013 @03:30PM CRTC Unveils New Wireless Code To Protect Canadian Customers
Monday June 03, 2013 @11:39AM SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest
Sunday June 02, 2013 @11:18PM Turkish PM: "To Me, Social Media Is the Worst Menace To Society."
Sunday June 02, 2013 @06:44PM Disposable VPN: Tor Gateways With EC2 Free Tiers
Sunday June 02, 2013 @01:59PM Activist Admits To Bugging US Senate Minority Leader
Sunday June 02, 2013 @08:43AM Montreal Union Wants a Camera On Every Policeman's Uniform
Saturday June 01, 2013 @12:59AM In UK, Search Engines Urged To Block More Online Porn Sites
Friday May 31, 2013 @08:08PM Kim Dotcom Wins Case Against NZ Police To Get Seized Material Back
Friday May 31, 2013 @06:51PM In UK, Search Engines Urged To Block More Online Porn Sites
Thursday May 30, 2013 @05:27PM UN Debates Rules Surrounding Killer Robots
Thursday May 30, 2013 @04:36PM DOJ Fights To Bury Court Ruling On Government Surveillance
Thursday May 30, 2013 @11:55AM Singapore Seeks Even More Control Over Online Media
Thursday May 30, 2013 @09:47AM California Bill Would Mandate Open Access To Publicly Funded Research
Wednesday May 29, 2013 @06:32PM Taking Action For Free JavaScript
Tuesday May 28, 2013 @07:41AM US DOJ Lays Out Cybersecurity Basics Every Company Should Practice
Monday May 27, 2013 @07:35AM Why Google's Display Ad Business Drew FTC Antitrust Probe
Saturday May 25, 2013 @07:50AM Ex-Marine Detained Under Operation Vigilant Eagle For His Political Views Sues
Saturday May 25, 2013 @12:01AM European Commission Launches $12 Billion Chip Support Campaign
Thursday May 23, 2013 @05:02PM Bitcoin's Success With Investors Alienates Earliest Adopters
Thursday May 23, 2013 @01:30PM Main US Weather Satellite Fails As Hurricane Season Looms
Thursday May 23, 2013 @07:52AM First Government Lawsuit Against a Patent Troll
Tuesday May 21, 2013 @08:03AM Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds
Monday May 20, 2013 @06:13PM NSA Data Center the Focus of Tax Controversy
Monday May 20, 2013 @01:27PM FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps
Monday May 20, 2013 @10:03AM NWS Announces Big Computer Upgrade
Sunday May 19, 2013 @08:05PM Medical Firm Sues IRS For 4th Amendment Violation In Records Seizure
Sunday May 19, 2013 @09:22AM Amazon, Google and Apple Won't Need To Pay Tax, Despite Goverment Threats
Saturday May 18, 2013 @04:45PM Wired Writer Imagines Google Island
Saturday May 18, 2013 @08:33AM FBI Considers CALEA II: Mandatory Wiretapping On Every Device
Friday May 17, 2013 @06:19PM Florida DOT Cuts Yellow Light Delay Ignoring Federal Guidelines, Citations Soar
Wednesday May 15, 2013 @03:57PM US Government Data Center Consolidation Behind Schedule, Cost Savings Uncertain
Tuesday May 14, 2013 @10:09AM N. Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent "Unfair Competition"
Monday May 13, 2013 @06:12PM US Government Monitoring Associated Press Phone Records
Monday May 13, 2013 @07:44AM UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects?
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
Thursday May 09, 2013 @10:34AM The NSA's Own Guide To Google Hacking and Other Internet Research
Thursday May 09, 2013 @08:25AM San Francisco Abandons Mobile Phone Radiation Labels
Wednesday May 08, 2013 @07:05PM Did the Queen Just Resurrect the Snooper's Charter?
Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:54AM Internet Explorer 0-day Attacks On US Nuke Workers Hit 9 Other Sites
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
Sunday May 05, 2013 @07:29PM Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't
Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:30PM In Australian Town, Public CCTV Off Over Privacy Concerns
Saturday May 04, 2013 @10:03PM Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate
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 @10:24PM UK Benefits Claimants Must Use Windows XP, IE6
Friday May 03, 2013 @08:24PM Antivirus Firms "Won't Co-operate" With PC-Hacking Dutch Police
Friday May 03, 2013 @06:51PM Google Formally Puts Palestine On Virtual Map
Friday May 03, 2013 @02:59PM Pentagon Approval of iOS and Samsung KNOX Is Bad News for BlackBerry
Thursday May 02, 2013 @10:06PM Dutch Bill Seeks To Give Law Enforcement Hacking Powers
Thursday May 02, 2013 @12:19PM Putin Reportedly Comments On T-Platform Supercomputer Flap
Wednesday May 01, 2013 @11:24PM Google Ordered Back To UK Parliament To "Explain Itself" Following Investigation
Tuesday April 30, 2013 @11:16PM President Obama To Nominate Cable and Wireless Lobbyist To Head FCC
Tuesday April 30, 2013 @12:08PM National Security Draft For Fining Tech Company "Noncompliance" On Wiretapping
Tuesday April 30, 2013 @11:44AM Variably Sunny: SCOTUS Allows Local FOIA Restrictions
Tuesday April 30, 2013 @08:18AM German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection
Monday April 29, 2013 @09:15PM SOPA Creator Now In Charge of NSF Grants
Monday April 29, 2013 @06:47PM Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source
Monday April 29, 2013 @08:16AM Lawyer Loses It In Letter To Patent Office
Sunday April 28, 2013 @01:22PM EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak Estimates Further Divides Fracking Camps
Sunday April 28, 2013 @08:01AM Icelandic Pirate Party Wins 3 seats In Parliament
Friday April 26, 2013 @08:18AM CISPA Seems Dead In the US Senate
Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:56PM WikiLeaks Donations By Visa Ruled OK In Iceland
Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:41PM The Amazon Rainforest Wants Its TLD Back From Amazon.com
Thursday April 25, 2013 @08:25AM British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg 'Kills' Snoopers Charter
Wednesday April 24, 2013 @11:12PM House Judiciary Chairman Plans Comprehensive Review of US Copyright Law
Wednesday April 24, 2013 @09:16PM An Open Letter To Google Chairman Eric Schmidt On Drones
Tuesday April 23, 2013 @09:06AM Former Diplomat Slams Facebook For Inaction On Fake Pages
Monday April 22, 2013 @10:37AM State Secrets, No-Fly List Showdown Looms
Sunday April 21, 2013 @06:09PM Japanese Police Urge ISPs To Block Tor
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 @12:52AM Statistical Errors Keep 4700 K-3rd Students From NYC 'Gifted' Programs
Thursday April 18, 2013 @06:02PM To Connect People Securely, Tor Project Seeks New Bridges
Thursday April 18, 2013 @01:39PM CISPA Passes US House, Despite Privacy Shortcomings and Promised Veto
Thursday April 18, 2013 @08:07AM Canadian Official Escorted From House For Others' Facebook Comments
Wednesday April 17, 2013 @07:58PM Rep. Mike Rogers Dismisses CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeter On the Internet"
Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:24PM Corruption Allegations Rock Australia's CSIRO
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
Sunday April 14, 2013 @08:27AM New Bird Shaped Drone Shown at Security and Defense Trade Show
Saturday April 13, 2013 @07:26AM UK Gov To Investigate 'Aggressive' In-app Purchases
Friday April 12, 2013 @06:21PM FDA Approves Software For iPhone-Based Vision Test
Friday April 12, 2013 @07:36AM Zuckerberg Lobbies For More Liberal Immigration Policies
Thursday April 11, 2013 @02:49PM Australian Networks Block Community University Website
Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:28AM US Gov't Blocks Sales To Russian Supercomputer Maker
Thursday April 11, 2013 @12:13AM Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness
Wednesday April 10, 2013 @09:05AM IRS Wants To Tax Silicon Valley Free Lunches
Wednesday April 10, 2013 @08:15AM DoJ Answers FOIA Request After Six Years With No Real Information
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 @04:29PM Should California Have Banned Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving?
Monday April 08, 2013 @01:32AM Why French Govt's Attempt to Censor Wikipedia Matters
Sunday April 07, 2013 @04:29PM Is the DEA Lying About iMessage Security?
Saturday April 06, 2013 @11:42PM NASA's Bolden: No American-Led Return To the Moon 'In My Lifetime'
Saturday April 06, 2013 @08:01PM Why Do Pathogen Researchers Face Less Scrutiny Than Nuclear Scientists?
Saturday April 06, 2013 @10:07AM Fisker Lays Off Most Workers, Plans To Shop Around Remaining Assets
Saturday April 06, 2013 @09:09AM French Intelligence Agency Forces Removal of Wikipedia Entry
Friday April 05, 2013 @07:22PM The ATF Wants To Know Who Your Friends Are
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 @10:12AM Microsoft, NYC Marketing Vast Surveillance System To Other Cities
Thursday April 04, 2013 @09:15AM Aaron Swartz Prosecution Team Claims Online Harassment
Thursday April 04, 2013 @07:58AM The Activists Who Bring Security To the Oppressed
Tuesday April 02, 2013 @12:08PM FTC Awards $50k In Prizes To Cut Off Exasperating Robocalls
Friday March 29, 2013 @07:07PM NASA Asteroid Capture Mission To Be Proposed In 2014 Budget
Thursday March 28, 2013 @12:42PM New CFAA Draft Aims To Expand The 'Worst Law In Technology'
Wednesday March 27, 2013 @03:31PM Air Force exploring systems that safeguard spacecraft network security
Wednesday March 27, 2013 @12:06PM North Korea Halts Internet Access After One Month
Wednesday March 27, 2013 @11:44AM U.S. plans to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances
Wednesday March 27, 2013 @07:08AM British Government Tries To Kill EU Privacy Regulation
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @10:23AM PlanetIQ's Plan: Swap US Weather Sats For Private Ones
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @07:20AM petition to require congressmen and senators to wear logos of sponsors
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @04:18AM Federal Reserve to Hire Chief Data Officer
Monday March 25, 2013 @07:10PM The ATF Not Concerned About 3D Printed Guns... Yet
Monday March 25, 2013 @06:12PM Draft Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Update Expands Powers and Penalties
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
Monday March 25, 2013 @09:49AM FAA Pushed To Review Ban On Electronics
Monday March 25, 2013 @07:43AM Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road
Monday March 25, 2013 @02:49AM Massachusetts Tries to Tax the Cloud
Sunday March 24, 2013 @11:33AM Man Accused of Selling Golf Ball Finders As Bomb Detectors
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 @11:48PM Lawmaker seeks 'virtual Congress' with telecommuting plan
Saturday March 23, 2013 @03:32PM IRS Spent $60,000 Producing Star Trek Parody
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 @09:41PM US Gov't To Scan More Civilian Infrastructure Traffic
Friday March 22, 2013 @07:41AM Political Pressure Pushes NASA Technical Reports Offline
Friday March 22, 2013 @07:27AM DARPA Tackles Machine Learning
Friday March 22, 2013 @01:32AM Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate
Thursday March 21, 2013 @05:15PM Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers?
Thursday March 21, 2013 @04:13PM DARPA wants unique automated tools to rapidly make computers smarter
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 @10:20AM Digging Into the Legal Status of 3-D Printed Guns
Thursday March 21, 2013 @10:04AM Are 3-D Printed Guns Really Legal?
Thursday March 21, 2013 @08:03AM Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @06:32PM CIA To Hand Over Drone Program To Pentagon?
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @06:23PM Cyber War Manual Proposes Online Geneva Convention
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:04PM Laser pointers produce too much energy, pose risks for the careless
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:06AM Cyber War Manual Proposes Online Geneva Convention
Tuesday March 19, 2013 @12:46PM UK Bloggers Could Face Libel Fines Unless Registered As Press
Tuesday March 19, 2013 @10:06AM Cubans evade censorship by exchanging computer memory sticks
Monday March 18, 2013 @01:26PM Security Vulnerability Found On US Federal Government Contractors Site
Monday March 18, 2013 @01:12PM Should We Be Afraid of Google Glass?
Saturday March 16, 2013 @10:37AM Massive security breech at US Federal Government contractors site
Friday March 15, 2013 @05:49AM Prosecutor in Aaron Swartz Case Lied About Search Warrant
Thursday March 14, 2013 @01:59PM UK Serious Fraud Office Probes Autonomy With ... Autonomy!
Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:44AM US Vulnerability Database Yanked Over Malware Infestation
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @09:43PM Obama Administration To Allow All Spy Agencies To Scour Americans' Finances
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @12:21PM Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @11:12PM Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @01:35PM France Demands Skype Register As A Telco
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @12:40PM 'Freedom of Information, Finally Made Easy' by MuckRock (Video)
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @09:18AM What If Manning Had Leaked To the New York Times?
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @08:32AM China Using 'State Secrets' Label To Hide Pollution
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @08:32AM RSF Names Names In Report On Online Spying
Monday March 11, 2013 @02:45PM Using Sensor Data For Smarter Urban Planning
Monday March 11, 2013 @12:40PM Will Sensor Data Design Smarter, Sustainable Cities?
Monday March 11, 2013 @07:36AM Many Watering Holes, Targets In Hacks That Netted Facebook, Twitter and Apple
Monday March 11, 2013 @12:40AM Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam

One of the most overlooked advantages to computers is... If they do foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little. -- Joe Martin

 



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