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[US Anti-Encryption Law Is So 'Braindead' It Will Outlaw File Compression]
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[Report: US Government Worse Than All Major Industries On Cyber Security]
[Feds: TVA Executive Traded Nuclear Information For Cash In Chinese Espionage Case]
[Alien 'Wow!' Signal Could Be Explained After Almost 40 Years]
[CIA Is Investing Heavily In Firms That Do Social Media Mining and Surveillance]
[Shockwave Images Help NASA In Development of 'Quiet' Supersonic Jet]
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[Researchers Find Vulnerabilities In Microsoft's and Google's Short URL Services]
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[After 150 Years, the American Productivity Miracle Is 'Over']
From the let's-not-underestimate-power-of-Internet department
An anonymous reader shares an article on Quartz: Economist Robert Gordon has spent his career studying what makes the US labor force one of the world's most productive. And he has some bad news. American workers still produce some of most economic...
[Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am']
From the who's-the-better-scientist department
ClickOnThis quotes a report from CNN: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin mocked Bill Nye on Thursday, using the premier of a film that criticizes climate change scientists to call into question Nye's credentials. "Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I...
[Facebook Employees Ask Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try To Stop a Donald Trump Presidency]
From the don't-mess-with-Facebook department
An anonymous reader writes: Mark Zuckerberg didn't shy from condemning several of Trump's views at his company's developer conference earlier this week. Things are getting tenser now. Gizmodo's Michael Nunez is reporting about a political...
[UC Davis Spent $175,000 To Bury Search Results After Cops Pepper-Sprayed Protestors]
From the better-luck-next-time department
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The University of California, Davis spent at least $175,000 to improve its reputation on the internet after images of campus police pepper-spraying protestors went viral in 2011, according to...
[US Anti-Encryption Law Is So 'Braindead' It Will Outlaw File Compression]
From the zombie-legislation department
An anonymous reader writes: The bill released Thursday by Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein to force U.S. companies to build backdoors into their encryption systems has been further dissected by experts. In less than 24 hours after the...
[Apple Deprecating Quicktime For Windows, Micro Trends Urges Users To Uninstall]
From the shhh-don't-tell-anyone department
harryjohnston writes: Usually when a vendor deprecates a software product and stops releasing security updates, they provide some sort of advance notice that they're intending to do so. The least we would expect is for them to announce an...
[AMC Drops 'Texting Friendly' Theaters Idea]
From the all-sorted-then department
netbuzz writes: Stung by a ferocious backlash on social media, AMC Entertainment this morning took to Twitter to announce that it will not be experimenting with "texting friendly" movie theaters, a trial balloon floated only days ago by the...
[Report: US Government Worse Than All Major Industries On Cyber Security]
From the graded-on-a-curve department
schwit1 quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. federal, state and local government agencies rank in last place in cyber security when compared against 17 major private industries, including transportation, retail and healthcare, according to a new...
[Feds: TVA Executive Traded Nuclear Information For Cash In Chinese Espionage Case]
From the two-count-indictment department
mdsolar quotes a report from Knoxville News Sentinel: An East Tennessean who served as a senior manager in the Tennessee Valley Authority's nuclear program swapped information with one of China's top nuclear power companies in exchange for cash,...
[Alien 'Wow!' Signal Could Be Explained After Almost 40 Years]
From the let's-wait-and-watch department
An anonymous reader cites a report on The Guardian: A former analyst with the US Department of Defence is on the trail of a 'cold case' -- an unexplained signal that some believe could have come from extraterrestrials. Way back in 1977 something...
[CIA Is Investing Heavily In Firms That Do Social Media Mining and Surveillance]
From the mining-and-surveillance-for-"good" department
Lee Fang, reporting for The Intercept, lists more than three-dozen companies that have received funding from CIA. In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital firm, the publication claims, has invested in 38 companies that research on "social media mining...
[Shockwave Images Help NASA In Development of 'Quiet' Supersonic Jet]
From the art-gallery department
An anonymous reader writes: NASA is working on developing a next-generation supersonic jet that can break the sound barrier with a soft "thump" instead of a sonic boom. They are using a technique called schlieren imagery to "visualize supersonic...
[Scientists Build Smallest, Single Atom, Working Heat Engine]
From the going-smaller department
William Herkewitz, writing for Popular Mechanics: Physicists have just built the smallest working engine ever created. It's a heat-powered motor barely larger than the single atom it runs on. Designed and build by a team of experimental physicists...
[Researchers Find Vulnerabilities In Microsoft's and Google's Short URL Services]
From the cool-urls-show-who-its-cool-creator-is department
An anonymous cites an article on Ars Technica: Two security researchers have published research exposing the potential privacy problems connected to using Web address shortening services. When used to share data protected by credentials included...
[Google Launches Customizable 'Live Cases' For Nexus Devices]
From the more-options-the-better department
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google is launching a new service today that allows you to create $35 custom cases for its Nexus 5X, 6 and 6P phones. There are two variations of the Live Cases: one that allows you to pick any...
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