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- + Coronavirus outbreak on Diamond Princess hits 454; 14 infected Americans return—Enlarge / SAN ANTONIO, TX - FEBRUARY 17: American evacuees from the ...
- + Bio-electronic device can produce electricity using nothing but humidity—Enlarge / The structure of some of the protein wires used by bacteri...
- + Fight or flight: How horror movies manipulate our brains for peak excitement—Enlarge / There's a demon behind you! Patrick Wilson starred in Dire...
- + SpaceX nailed the launch but missed a landing on Monday [Updated]—Enlarge / SpaceX launched its first batch of operational Starlink sa...
- + Americans trapped on cruise ship with coronavirus get to go home—Enlarge / YOKOHAMA, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 10: A member of the media wears...
- + Researchers have already tested YouTube’s algorithms for political bias—Enlarge / Google logo seen during Google Developer Days (GDD) in Sha...
- + China launches a crush of clinical trials aimed at coronavirus—Enlarge / This photo taken on February 4, 2020 shows a medical staff...
- + Dunes use turbulence as a buffer to prevent collisions—Enlarge / A red dune racing around an underwater track. (credit: Kar...
- + New image shows Betelgeuse isn’t dimming evenly—Enlarge (credit: ESO/M. Montargès et al.) From Earth's perspectiv...
- + Rocket Report: Demo-2 launch this spring, concerns about Firefly’s backer—Enlarge / The Rocket Report is published weekly. (credit: Arianespac...
- + Open access journals get a boost from librarians—much to Elsevier’s dismay—Enlarge A quiet revolution is sweeping the $20 billion academic ...
- + Details pour in from New Horizons’ visit to a Kuiper Belt Object—Enlarge (credit: NASA/JHU APL/SWRI/Roman Tkachenko) Following its...
- + NASA signals interest in Venus and volcanoes for next science missions—Enlarge / Maat Mons, one of the volcanoes of Venus, in a model creat...
- + Coronavirus outbreak hits 60,000 cases after reporting change—Enlarge / WUHAN, CHINA - FEBRUARY 13 2020: Medical personnel check t...
- + Juul bought ads on CartoonNetwork.com, NickJr.com, other kid sites, suit says—Enlarge / Juul went with a fashionable, "cool" marketing strategy. (...
- + Giant viruses may be attacking the microbes in our guts—Enlarge / Phages on the surface of a bacterial cell. (credit: Dr. Gr...
- + Ancient “chewing gum” contains a 5,700-year-old genome—Enlarge / This artist's reconstruction shows "Lola" as a young girl,...
- + 175 now infected with coronavirus on cruise ship, including quarantine officer—Enlarge (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) At least 175 people have cont...
- + Researchers entangle quantum memory at facilities over 50km apart—Enlarge (credit: MirageC/Getty) While quantum computers can do in...
- + Amid coronavirus outbreak, Trump proposes slashing CDC budget—Enlarge / US President Donald Trump speaks during a Governor's White...
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- + Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last month, the cryptographer and ...
- + US government goes all in to expose new malware used by North Korean hackers—Enlarge (credit: Jung Yeon-Je/Getty Images) The US Pentagon, the ...
- + 500 Chrome extensions secretly uploaded private data from millions of users—Enlarge More than 500 browser extensions downloaded millions of ...
- + Pwns for sale: Scythe prepares a marketplace for sharing simulated hacks—Enlarge / Imagine a supermarket full of advanced persistent threats ...
- + Amazon wins court injunction on controversial JEDI contract—Enlarge Cloud-computing and retail behemoth Amazon won a legal v...
- + Nasty Android malware reinfects its targets, and no one knows how—Enlarge A widely circulating piece of Android malware primarily ...
- + Ars Technicast special edition, part 1: Machine learning assimilates athletics—Enlarge / Artist's impression of AI playing sports. (credit: Pali Ra...
- + Huawei fires back, points to US’ history of spying on phone networks—Enlarge / Huawei sign displayed at CES 2020 in Las Vegas on Wednesda...
- + Rental cars can be remotely started, tracked, and more after customers return them—Enlarge / The screen displayed by FordPass four days after an Enterp...
- + One of the most destructive botnets can now spread to nearby Wi-Fi networks—Enlarge (credit: Marco Verch / Flickr) Over the past half decade,...
- + Office365 Pro Plus won’t hijack your search engine after all—Enlarge / Stop trying to make Bing happen, Microsoft. It's never goi...
- + For decades, US and Germany owned Swiss crypto company used by 120 countries—Enlarge / Boris Hagelin's mechanical crypto gear, like the CX-52 fir...
- + New “red team as a service” platform aims to automate hacking tests for company networks—Enlarge / Randori's Attack platform aims to automate the "red team" ...
- + The Iowa caucuses were a comedy of tech errors and poor planning—Enlarge / The Iowa Democratic Party caucus app displayed on an iPhon...
- + Why is the healthcare industry still so bad at cybersecurity?— A medical (cyber)simulation from the 2018 CyberMed Summit (credit...
- + Windows trust in abandoned code lets ransomware burrow deep into targeted machines—Enlarge / A note left behind by the RobbinHood malware. (credit: Sop...
- + Comcast “not welcome” here: Customers protest sale of tiny cable company—You can check out any time you'd like, but you can never... well, you ...
- + Why you can’t bank on backups to fight ransomware anymore—Enlarge / The Credit Union National Association held a ransomware ex...
- + SpaceX plans likely spinoff and IPO for Starlink broadband division—Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites l...
- + Google Play apps with 470k installs can log in to your Facebook and Google accounts—Enlarge (credit: portal gda / flickr) Researchers on Thursday doc...
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- + Security Think Tank: Zero trust strategies must start small, then grow
- + Mastercard opens European security resilience unit
- + Ex-soldiers to become ethical hackers
- + Zero trust: Taking back control of IT security
- + Security Think Tank: Ask yourself if zero trust is right for you
- + CIO Interview: Siim Sikkut, Estonian government CIO
- + Security Think Tank: How zero trust lets you take back control
- + Cyber criminals spread coronavirus conspiracy theories
- + Security Think Tank: Practical steps to achieve zero trust
- + Emotet evolving to exploit coronavirus fear
- + Internet Explorer zero day among 99 Patch Tuesday problems
- + MI5 failed to disclose failings in handling intercepted data, court hears
- + Mac-based security threats outpacing Windows
- + Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – episode 46
- + Chinese military personnel accused of Equifax hack
- + AI in public service must be accountable
- + Choosing the right disaster recovery for your business
- + Security Think Tank: Zero trust is complex, but has rich rewards
- + RobbinHood ransomware tricks Windows into deleting defences
- + Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker is ‘most dangerous’ movie
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- + App note: Low ESR tantalum capacitors make a difference in circuit designs— App note from Vishay about how ESR in tatalum capacitors affect ...
- + App note: The benefit of using a three sense pin design on battery— App note from Vishay about correcting error when reading current...
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- + Martin and Dorothie Hellman on Love, Crypto & Saving the World —Martin Hellman, co-creator of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, and his...
- + Phishing Campaign Targets Mobile Banking Users—Consumers in dozens of countries were targeted, Lookout says. [Link to...
- + Palm Beach Elections Office Hit with Ransomware Pre-2016 Election—Palm Beach County's elections supervisor does not believe the attack i...
- + Ovum to Expand Cybersecurity Research Under New Omdia Group—Informa Tech combines Ovum, Heavy Reading, Tractica, and IHS Markit re...
- + DHS Warns of Cyber Heartbreak—Fraudulent dating and relationship apps and websites raise the risks f...
- + The 5 Love Languages of Cybersecurity —When it comes to building buy-in from the business, all cybersecurity ...
- + Coronavirus Raises New Business Continuity, Phishing Challenges for InfoSec—What happens when understaffed security teams at home and abroad are s...
- + DDoS Attacks Nearly Double Between Q4 2018 and Q4 2019—Peer-to-peer botnets, TCP reflection attacks, and increased activity o...
- + Architectural Analysis IDs 78 Specific Risks in Machine-Learning Systems—The new threat model hones in on ML security at the design state. [Lin...
- + Babel of IoT Authentication Poses Security Challenges—With more than 80 different schemes for authenticating devices either ...
- + Huawei Charged with RICO Violations in Federal Court—A new set of indictments adds conspiracy to violate RICO statutes to a...
- + 7 Tax Season Security Tips—Security pros need be on high alert from now until Tax Day on April 15...
- + Small Business Security: 5 Tips on How and Where to Start—There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for security, but a robust plan...
- + Apps Remain Favorite Mobile Attack Vector—Mobile apps are used in nearly 80% of attacks targeting mobile devices...
- + Forget Hacks... Ransomware, Phishing Are Election Year's Real Threats—As we gear up for the voting season, let's put aside any links between...
- + Third-Party Breaches - and the Number of Records Exposed - Increased Sharply in 2019—Each breach exposed an average of 13 million records, Risk Based Secur...
- + Avast Under Investigation by Czech Privacy Agency—The software security maker is suspected of selling data about more th...
- + FBI: Business Email Compromise Cost Businesses $1.7B in 2019—BEC attacks comprised nearly half of cybercrime losses last year, whic...
- + Stop Defending Everything—Instead, try prioritizing with the aid of a thorough asset inventory. ...
- + 5G Adoption Should Change How Organizations Approach Security—With 5G adoption, businesses will be able to power more IoT devices an...
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- + Insecure Surveillance Cameras Provide Dystopian Peep Show—It probably doesn’t surprise you to hear there are tens of thous...
- + Wearable Cone of Silence Protects You from Prying Ears—Careful, the walls have ears. Or more specifically, the smart speaker...
- + What Does Your Necklace Say?—If we write about sound reproduction, there is a good chance we found ...
- + Cable Operated Blast Door Needs No Power—Every well-equipped wood shop has a dust collection system, with blast...
- + Sherbet Custom Game Pad is Smooth and Sweet—When [Billiam]’s beloved Logitech G13 game pad went to that grea...
- + Transparent LCD Makes Everything Look Futuristic—According to [Kelsey], transparent displays are guaranteed to make ...
- + Why Some Chips Have Inconvenient Pinouts—If you’ve ever handled a chip with a really strange or highly in...
- + Electrification Of A Cheap Bead Roller—We all have old projects which maybe didn’t quite deliver knocki...
- + Bubbly Filament Works Better Than You Think—Normally bubbles appearing in your extruded filament would be consider...
- + Amp Volt Ohm Meter Model 8 Mark III from the 1960s—There’s hardly any piece of test equipment more fundamental than...
- + Closed Ham Radio Peripheral Reveals Its Windows Secrets—The student radio society in Trondhjem owns a Flex 6500-radio, with it...
- + Hackaday Links: February 16, 2020—Have you heard the exciting news about Betelgeuse? It’s been har...
- + DIY Dispenser Places Solder Paste Without The Mess—When doing surface-mount assembly you can certainly use a soldering ir...
- + A Cheap And Easy GoPro Mount For Model Rocketry—Launching model rockets is fun, but the real meat of the hobby lies in...
- + Have LED Bulbs Reached Their Final (and Cheapest) Form?—[electronupdate] has done a lot of LED light bulb teardowns over the y...
- + Make A Set Of Headphones From Scratch—There are a variety of ways to enjoy your audio, of which headphones a...
- + Making Your Own Maple Syrup Just Got A Little Easier—[ctstarkdesigns] had fond memories of collecting maple syrup as a chil...
- + GitHub goes GUI-less—Git is a handy tool that many of us are using for more than just softw...
- + Sequence Your Beats With The Magic Of Magnets—Typically, when we think of a music sequencer, we envisage LEDs and bo...
- + AAA Powered LoRa Mailbox Sensor Goes the Distance—As more of the world’s communication moves into the electronic r...
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- + 5 Hot network-automation startups to watch —With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical...
- + How cyber attackers hide malware on your network—Knowing where to look for malware lurking on your network gives you a ...
- + What's the difference between the deep web and the dark web?—We hear the terms "deep web" and "dark web" thrown around a lot... but...
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- + The Real Story of the Royal Air Force’s World War II ‘Dambusters’ Raid—Max Hastings’s “Operation Chastise” takes a close look at one of the m...
- + How Dresden Looked After a World War II Firestorm 75 Years Ago—Germany commemorated 75 years since the Allied bombing devastated the ...
- + 75 Years On, Dresden Recalls the Images of War and the Echoes of History—Universal mourning and atonement have been central themes in the natio...
- + Dutch Police Hunt for Mail Bomber Who Demanded Bitcoin Payoff—Nobody was wounded in a pair of attacks on Wednesday, but the blasts w...
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- + From Dubai to Mars, With Stops in Colorado and Japan—The United Arab Emirates used a novel approach to build the Hope space...
- + Rajendra Pachauri, 79, Dies; Led Nobel-Winning Climate Agency—Sharing the prize with Al Gore, his U.N. organization was recognized f...
- + They Wanted Research Funding, So They Entered the Lottery—A survey of New Zealand scientists found that recipients of a randomiz...
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- + LOFAR Pioneers New Way to Study Exoplanet Environments— OUDE HOOGEVEENSEDIJK, The Netherlands (Netherlands Institute fo...
- + Blue Origin, NASA Refurbish Engine Test Stand at Marshall—In partnership with @NASA and @NASA_Marshall we have started refurbish...
- + Blue Origin Opens Huntsville Manufacturing Facility— Ribbon cutting ceremony at Blue Origin’s production facility in...
- + Western Australia Government Invests in Robotics Partnership— McGowan Government secures Perth as headquarters for ‘AROS...
- + NRAO, SETI Institute Agree on New Research Programs— SEATTLE (NRAO PR) — The National Radio Astronomy Observato...
- + SpaceX Launches Fifth Starlink Mission— CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. (SpaceX PR) — On Mo...
- + This Week on The Space Show— This week on The Space Show with Dr. David Livingston: 1. Mon...
- + Space Force Names First Senior Enlisted Advisor— Chief Master Sgt. Roger A. Towberman. (Credit: U.S. Air Force photo b...
- + New Technologies, Strategies Expanding Search for Extraterrestrial Life— SEATTLE (NRAO PR) — Emerging technologies and new strategi...
- + SpaceX Looks to Build R&D, Manufacturing Facility at Port of Los Angeles— by Douglas MessierManaging Editor SpaceX is looking to build ...
- + Breakthrough Listen’s Search for Intelligent Life Releases Unprecedented Data Survey— SEATTLE, February 14, 2020 (Breakthrough Initiatives PR) – ...
- + Wanted: Ideas on Space Force Members’ Name, Ranks— ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — The U.S. Space Force is looking f...
- + Virgin Galactic Stock Soars— Virgin Galactic’s stock hit an all-time high on Friday at $...
- + Spaceport America Welcomes SpaceShipTwo Unity to New Mexico—TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, NM (NMSA PR) — Virgin Galactic Holdings, ...
- + NASA Science, Cargo Heads to Space Station on Northrop Grumman Mission— A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft launched on an Antares ...
- + SpaceShipTwo Unity Moved to New Mexico— SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity arrives at Spaceport America aboard WhiteKnigh...
- + Blue Origin to Open Huntsville Production Facility on Monday—On Monday, we open our high rate rocket engine production facility in ...
- + Space Commerce Office Seeks Major Budget Increase— Wilbur Ross The Department of Commerce’s Office of Space Commer...
- + NASA Goes BIG, Selects University Teams to Build Technologies for the Moon’s Darkest Areas— HAMPTON, Va. (NASA PR) — Almost a quarter of a million mil...
- + UK’s First Industrial Contribution to International Space Station Ready for Launch— COLka undergoing testing in the Hertz test chamber at the European Sp...
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- + Cool Butterfly Effect: Insect Equipment Could Inspire Heat-Radiating Tech—Butterfly wings contain complex thermodynamic structures that can teac...
- + Will Past Criminals Reoffend? Humans Are Terrible at Guessing, and Computers Aren't Much Better—A new study finds algorithms’ predictions are slightly superior ...
- + NASA's Next Low-Cost Planetary Science Missions Will Visit Venus or the Outer Solar System—With its selection of four candidates for its coveted Discovery class ...
- + Attempts at Debunking "Fake News" about Epidemics Might Do More Harm Than Good—Batting down conspiracy theories about disease outbreaks such as that ...
- + Here's How Computer Models Simulate the Future Spread of New Coronavirus—They aim for clarity amid confusion surrounding the outbreak -- Read ...
- + Epidemiologist Veteran of SARS and MERS Shares Coronavirus Insights after China Trip—Columbia University professor W. Ian Lipkin looks for lessons from the...
- + Deadly Air Pollution Doesn't Respect State Borders—U.S. federal authorities have recently been reluctant to step in to me...
- + Reducing Street Sprawl Could Help Combat Climate Change—Building more disconnected thoroughfares might lock cities into a depe...
- + Footprint Find Could Be a "Holy Grail" of Pterosaur Research—How early pterosaurs walked on the ground has been a complete mystery....
- + Is an Antidepressant Right for You? Ask Your Brain Waves—EEGs successfully picked out which depressed individuals got better on...
- + Meet "Spikey," a Possible Pair of Merging Supermassive Black Holes—A flare predicted for this spring could confirm the object is indeed t...
- + How Does a Mammalian Brain Forget?—A mouse study shows immune cells gobbling up the connections between m...
- + Rocks, Rockets and Robots: The Plan to Bring Mars Down to Earth—Coordinated by NASA and ESA, an ambitious effort to retrieve samples f...
- + Will the New Coronavirus Keep Spreading or Not? You Have to Know One Little Number—Whenever there’s a new outbreak, scientists rush to calculate a ...
- + MICE Cold: Collaboration Demonstrates Muon Ionization Cooling—Physicists take the first step toward taming the short-lived particle ...
- + How Coronaviruses Cause Infection--from Colds to Deadly Pneumonia—The novel coronavirus outbreak raises questions about how such pathoge...
- + Peru's Peatlands Could Greatly Accelerate Global Warming—The vast region may stay wet—or dry up and burn—depending ...
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- + CVE-2019-0604 SharePoint Remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability—A security expert found a flaw in SharePoint that could be exploited t...
- + Flaw in WordPress ThemeGrill Demo Importer WordPress theme plugin expose 200K+ sites to hack—A serious flaw in the ThemeGrill Demo Importer WordPress theme plugin ...
- + FC Barcelona and the International Olympic Committee Twitter accounts hacked—The popular hacker group OurMine has hacked the official Twitter ac...
- + Russian govn blocked Tutanota service in Russia to stop encrypted communication—Tutanota , the popular free and open-source end-to-end encry...
- + Russian govn blocked Tutanova service in Russia to stop encrypted communication—Tutanota , the popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email...
- + Launching the First “Yomi Hunting” Challenge!—About a year ago, Yoroi released the Yomi Hunter sandbox, today, they ...
- + Cyberwarfare: A deep dive into the latest Gamaredon Espionage Campaign—Security experts from Yoroy-Cybaze ZLab have conducted a detailed anal...
- + IDF soldiers tricked into installing malicious apps by Hamas operatives posing as attractive women—Israeli Force (IDF) announced it has thwarted an attempt by the Hamas...
- + Fox Kitten Campaign – Iranian hackers exploit 1-day VPN flaws in attacks—Iranian hackers have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in co...
- + US administration requests $9.8B for cyber 2021 budget for the Department of Defense—The US administration requested $9.8 billion for cyber in next year...
- + Organizers of major hacking conferences in Asia put them on hold due to Coronavirus outbreak—Organizers of Black Hat Asia and DEF CON China security conferences an...
- + Security Affairs newsletter Round 251—A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the wee...
- + IOTA cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after a coordinated attack on its Trinity wallet—IOTA Foundation behind the IOTA cryptocurrency was forced to shut do...
- + NextMotion plastic surgery tech firm data leak—Photos and personal information belonging to patients of the NextMotio...
- + SweynTooth Bluetooth flaws affect devices from major system-on-a-chip (SoC) vendors—Security experts have discovered multiple flaws, dubbed SweynTooth, i...
- + The cyber attack against Austria’s foreign ministry has ended—Austria’s foreign ministry announced that the cyber attack again...
- + US Govt agencies detail North Korea-linked HIDDEN COBRA malware—The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infras...
- + Russian watchdog fines Twitter, Facebook for not moving user data to local servers—A Russian court fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles each for r...
- + Nedbank client data compromised in security breach at third-party provider—Nedbank bank announced on Thursday that a security breach at a third-p...
- + PoS malware infected systems at 71 locations operated by US store chain Rutter’s—US store chain Rutter disclosed a security breach, 71 locations were i...
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- + 5 Hot network-automation startups to watch —With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical...
- + How cyber attackers hide malware on your network—Knowing where to look for malware lurking on your network gives you a ...
- + What's the difference between the deep web and the dark web?—We hear the terms "deep web" and "dark web" thrown around a lot... but...
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- + Solar Wind Samples Suggest New Physics Of Massive Solar Ejections—A new study led by the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa has helped ...
- + Radiation Vest for Deep Space Missions To Fly On Artemis I—As NASA leads the way for human exploration at the Moon and beyond, sp...
- + This Week at NASA: New Budget Request—A budget for a new era of space exploration, do you have what it takes...
- + NASA Weekly ISS Space to Ground Report for February 14, 2020 —NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboar...
- + Earth from space: Bolivian highland heart—For Valentine's Day, we bring you this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image cap...
- + The Strait of Gibraltar As Seen From Orbit—The Strait of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Mediterra...
- + The Topography of Nilosyrtis Mensae—This colour-coded topographic image shows a region of Mars' surface na...
- + Mars 2020 Rover Arrives At Its Launch Site—The Mars 2020 rover is offloaded from a C-17 aircraft at the Launch an...
- + NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 12 February 2020 - Science Demonstration for Students—A science demonstration for students and space research to improve lif...
- + 'Pale Blue Dot' Revisited—A recent update to this historic portrait shows Earth as a tiny speck ...
- + Orbital View As The Pine Island Glacier Shatters—The Pine Island Glacier recently spawned an iceberg over 300 sq km tha...
- + SwRI Models Hint At A Longer Timescale For Mars' Formation —The early solar system was a chaotic place, with evidence indicating t...
- + NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 11 February 2020 - Resupply Mission Set for Friday—The next U.S. cargo mission is now targeting Friday for its launch to ...
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- + Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt— This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One ...
- + Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Hot Water— This week, we announced the winners of Gaming Like It's 1924, our gam...
- + Activision Tries To Bury Cover Art For New CoD Game Via Copyright Threat...So Let's All Look At It Together, Shall We?— Of all the dumb ways that the DMCA process has been misused in the ve...
- + Trouble At The Law Firm Filing Patently Ridiculous Lawsuits On Behalf Of Tulsi Gabbard— We've covered the two ridiculous lawsuits filed by Tulsi Gabbard in t...
- + SLAPP Suits And The Enemies Of Writing And Ideas— Writer George Packer recently won the Christopher Hitchens Prize, whi...
- + Judge Shuts Down Copyright Troll's Cut-And-Run Effort; Hits It With $40K In Legal Fees— The art of copyright trolling is completely artless. There's no subtl...
- + Daily Deal: TREBLAB Z2 Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones— The Z2's earned their name because they feature twice the sound, twic...
- + William Barr's Move To Rid The DOJ Of Independence Shows One Of Many Reasons Josh Hawley's FTC Plan Is Dangerous— Karl already took some time to highlight just one of the many absurdi...
- + Surprise! MIT Study Claims Voatz E-Voting Technology Is A Security Dumpster Fire— You'd be pretty hard pressed to find a single respected cybersecurity...
- + Rockstar Joins Other Publishers In Misusing Copyright Law To Go After Cheat Developers For GTA5— For some time now, we've noted a troubling trend in the video games i...
- + Federal Agencies Are Still Abusing Their Favorite, Super-Vague FOIA Exemption Thousands Of Times A Year— The Freedom of Information Act was supposed to result in, you know, t...
- + Judge Who Originally Approved Sketchy UNC 'Silent Sam' Settlement Now Voids Deal, Realizing 'Confederate' Group Had No Standing— Back in December, we wrote about the crazy situation in North Carolin...
- + CBP, ICE Hoovering Up Cell Location Data From Third Party Vendors To Track Down Immigrants— Supreme Court precedent says the government needs a warrant if it wan...
- + Open Source Voice Assistant Promises To 'Nuke From Orbit' Patent Troll— Open source voice assistant company Mycroft AI (which we actually wro...
- + Daily Deal: The Premium 2020 Project & Quality Management Bundle— The Premium 2020 Project and Quality Management Bundle has 11 courses...
- + Announcing The Winners Of The 2nd Annual Public Domain Game Jam!— The judges have had their fun, the votes are in, and now it's time: w...
- + US Takes Baby Steps Toward Providing Actual Public Evidence Of Huawei Spying— We've noted a few times now how US claims that Huawei routinely spies...
- + Court Allows Chooseco's Lawsuit Against Netflix Over 'Bandersnatch' To Move Forward— You will recall our previous posts about Chooseco, the company behind...
- + Court To Prosecutors Who Sent Crime Victims Fake Subpoenas Threatening Them With Arrest: Pretty Sure Immunity Doesn't Cover That— A few years ago, The Lens exposed a super-shady tactic being used by ...
- + Good News: Virginia Legislature Passes Anti-SLAPP Law— We pointed out recently that Devin Nunes' ongoing campaign to file ve...
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- + Viewing the 2020 Presidential Race Through a Competitive Analysis Lens— Back in the 1980s, I was a competitive analyst for IBM, and it was...
- + Simplicity Does More Than Simplify Linux— If you want a new Linux distro catering to gaming, check out the S...
- + ACLU Blasts Clearview's Facial Recognition Accuracy Claims— The American Civil Liberties Union has leveled criticisms agains f...
- + It's Time for a Social Media and Disinformation Reckoning: ECT News Roundtable, Episode 6— Can social media be saved? Can democracy be saved? The first quest...
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- + AMAZING FOOTAGE: Triangular formation over Scottsdale, Arizona—This is one older UFO video that was filmed on 4th August 2016 but it ...
- + King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 15-Feb-2020—Multiple lights were seen and filmed over Pennsylvania on 15th Februar...
- + Daytime UFO/ORB over Bogota, Colombia 22-Dec-2019—Bright orb was seen and filmed in the sky above Bogota in Colombia. Th...
- + Over 60 Percent of American People Want The Government To Make UFO-Related Information Public—The majority of American people want government information on UFOs to...
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- + Video captures dramatic moment a landslide crumbles a Tennessee home— An angry landslide in Tennessee ripped through Hardin County last wee...
- + Countries rush to evacuate citizens from virus-stricken cruise ship in Japan— South Korea, Canada, Australia and Britain are rushing to evacuate ci...
- + Boy Scouts file for bankruptcy to pay victims of abuse— The Boy Scouts of America have filed for bankruptcy amid mounting law...
- + On This Day, Feb. 18: J. Robert Oppenheimer dies— On Feb. 18, 1967, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bo...
- + Hundreds of thousands have sought hidden gold in Rockies, study says— In the 10 years since a gold-filled treasure chest purportedly was hi...
- + Suicide bomber kills eight in Pakistan— A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a rally by a radical religio...
- + Apple warns coronavirus is hurting business— Apple warned on Monday the outbreak of the coronavirus in China is hu...
- + U.S. evacuates 328 citizens from cruise ship including 14 sick with coronavirus— Chinese health officials said the death toll from COVID-19 rose by mo...
- + Plymouth Rock, other Massachusetts landmarks vandalized— Plymouth Rock and several other landmarks in the Massachusetts town w...
- + European Union agrees to set up warships to enforce Libya arms embargo— The European Union agreed to deploy warships to reinforce an embargo ...
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