You have to give CNN’s David Goldman a little credit. With Apple’s next potential revolution still a few months away, he’s going for the gusto. He’s not just saying that the Apple Watch won’t be as big as previous Apple hits. He’s saying the Apple Watch will flop. Period. That’s the kind of bravado…

Another day, another data breach, and another round of calls for companies to encrypt their databases. Cryptography is a powerful tool, but in cases like this, it’s not going to help. If your OS is secure, you don’t need the crypto; if it’s not, the crypto won’t protect your data. In a case like the…

This is a story that involves lots of public intrigue, a futuristic wearable technology, a secret laboratory, fashion models, sky divers and an interoffice love triangle that ended a billionaire’s marriage. This is the story of Google Glass. Before we begin, this is the part in the tale where I…

Why the US Government Is Terrified of Hobbyist Drones

One of the leading manufacturers in this area is BMW. Its ConnectedDrive technology has been on the market for several years now. Like c't, ADAC is interested in the privacy and consumer protection implications of the data transmitted in the use of this system. They asked me to investigate this in…

I am a second-year teacher at Woodlawn High School, and like so many, I became obsessed with the Serial podcast this fall. However, my experience was just a little bit different. Some of my Woodlawn colleagues had heard about the podcast but absolutely no one else was listening to it. I felt like I…

A year ago, Justine Sacco sent out a tweet and then boarded a plane. By the time she landed, her career was derailed, her reputation was shredded, and her relative anonymity had been replaced by the worst kind of celebrity. What was her crime? Sacco tweeted the following: “Going to Africa. Hope I…

Update, Feb. 5, 2015, 8:10 p.m.: After this article appeared, Werner Koch informed us that last week he was awarded a one-time grant of $60,000 from Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative. Werner told us he only received permission to disclose it after our article published. Meanwhile,…

It wasn’t a single meeting, an internal white paper or a blinding epiphany. Instead, it was a gradual realization — and a need for a life preserver— that led Twitter’s leadership to expand the definition of a “Twitter active user” beyond people who, um, use Twitter. “I would say that in the middle…

Walter Pitts was used to being bullied. He’d been born into a tough family in Prohibition-era Detroit, where his father, a boiler-maker, had no trouble raising his fists to get his way. The neighborhood boys weren’t much better. One afternoon in 1935, they chased him through the streets until he…

In 1784, the philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote down his hope for his age and all those that followed. In a famous essay titled “Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?,” he urged men and women to think for themselves instead of relying on the minds of kings, priests, and other “self-appointed…

I was talking to someone who works on one of those half-dozen or so apps that we tend to associate with teenagers: the ones that were built around some novel concept that distracted us for a few years while they settled into their roles as slightly different ways to text. He mentioned something,…

Photo by Goodshoot/Thinkstock I first encountered the upper middle class when I attended a big magnet high school in Manhattan that attracted a decent number of brainy, better-off kids whose parents preferred not to pay private-school tuition. Growing up in an immigrant household, I’d felt largely…

Syria is the global crucible of jihad today, the arena from which international attacks are both directed and inspired. The crisis there has almost certainly extended the terrorist threat to our shores for a generation – if not two. That might seem alarmist, but consider the scale. Since October…

While Internet users can choose to delete their regular cookies, Verizon Wireless users cannot delete the company’s so-called supercookies.

All the feels How a bunch of YouTubers discovered a tingling sensation nobody knew existed by Jason Abbruzzese All the feels How a bunch of YouTubers discovered a tingling sensation nobody knew existed by Jason Abbruzzese Editor’s note: This article has a strong audio component. It’s best…

Throughout December, the US and some of its allies along with the Bashar al-Assad regime in Damascus stepped up their bombing campaign against the ISIS stronghold in the city of Raqqa, in northern Syria (although 97 percent of air strikes in Syria were carried out by the US). Along with the US,…

Do you know how much of your personal information is floating around? It’s more than you think and very easy to find. Phone numbers, home addresses, email accounts. As my recent story about gamers who got swatted showed, anybody can become a target. You don’t have to be someone with a million…

On June 28, 2014, a SWAT team showed up at the home of Max and Victoria Zeisberg. Bright lights blared into the couple’s windows. Officers came equipped with assault rifles and shotguns. They’d gotten a tip that Max had murdered his wife. None of this was true. The Zeisbergs had just been…

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Freeing The Slave Women Of ISIS

Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) — Inside Reindert Dooves’s home, a 17th-century, three-story converted warehouse along the Zaan canal in suburban Amsterdam, a 21st-century Internet giant is avoiding taxes. The bookkeeper’s home office doubles as the headquarters for a Yahoo! Inc. offshore unit. Through this…

People often tell reporters things their employers, or their government, want to keep suppressed. But leaking can serve the public interest, fueling revelatory and important journalism. This publication was created in part as a platform for journalism arising from unauthorized disclosures by NSA…

by , 01-26-2015 at 09:26 PM (0 Views) Hi Guys,Introduction: You read it right. I am going to give a quick demo for the first ever drone backdoor aka Maldrone [Malware Drone] . There are over 70 nations building remotely controllable drones. Most of these drones are capable of making autonomous…

Getty Images At the State of the Net conference in Washington on Tuesday, US assistant attorney general Leslie Caldwell discussed what she described as the dangers of encryption and cryptographic anonymity tools like Tor, and how those tools can hamper law enforcement. Her statements are the latest…

Note: The reason this post took three weeks to finish is that as I dug into research on Artificial Intelligence, I could not believe what I was reading. It hit me pretty quickly that what’s happening in the world of AI is not just an important topic, but by far THE most important topic for our…

President Obama spent only a few moments of his State of the Union this week talking about the National Security Agency and civil liberties. A year before, he’d promised to “end” Section 215, the N.S.A.’s most controversial surveillance program, “as it currently exists.” In his speech last Tuesday,…

Hamid Ghannam’s first day at an Islamic State (Isis) training camp was intense. Very early on the morning of 13 August, he picked up his packed clothes and walked quickly to the main street in his village to meet three of his cousins. As with many of Isis’s young members, he did so without informing…

Security news, views and insight from the ESET experts A school entirely focussed on teaching cybersecurity skills has launched in the UK, reports Computer Business Review. The Global Institute of Cyber, Intelligence & Security is opening in London, and will offer short courses covering areas such…

FY 2013 & FY 2012: Top-100 DoD in 2013 Top-100 DoD in 2012 The following is a list of the Top-100 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Prime Contractors in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 ranked by total contract funds awarded. In FY 2014, the DoD awarded a total of $284.73 billion in defense contracts down 8.2%…

By Nafeez Ahmed INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA…

View this image › The Londoner became the unwitting star of a viral video back in 2012, when he was filmed singing along to Drake and Rihanna’s “Take Care” while travelling on the London Underground. The clip has so far been watched around 2.5 million times on YouTube, and numerous websites,…

Kate McKean has the pleasing air of a woman who knows what she loves to do and has been succeeding at it for a long time. When I met the Howard Morhaim Literary agent at Little Purity, her local diner in Park Slope — which was not, as she feared, full of wailing babies — she was only embarrassed…

When tech culture only celebrates creation, it risks ignoring those who teach, criticize, and take care of others. Dave Catchpole/Flickr Every once in a while, I am asked what I “make.” A hack day might require it, or a conference might ask me to describe “what I make” so it can go on my name tag.…

freeross.org As Ulbricht faces trial on conspiracy charges that include running a narcotics ring, laundering money, and selling counterfeit IDs, a jury may now be hearing Ulbricht tell his story for the first time. The FBI has said it found a journal on Ulbricht’s laptop, seized at the time of his…

Think mass surveillance is just the wheelhouse of agencies like the NSA? Think again. One of the biggest concerns to come from the revelations about the NSA’s bulk collection of the phone records of millions of innocent Americans was that law enforcement agencies might be doing the same thing. It…

The news that four peers are trying to bring back the Snoopers’ Charter – in its last incarnation the Communications Data Bill – is depressingly predictable, but perhaps even more shameful than other attempts at legitimising mass data gathering and surveillance. It displays shameful opportunism that…

Pegida will in Braunschweig demonstrieren. Die Braunschweiger Zeitung druckt erst die Forderungen ab und will dann mit den Organisatoren sprechen. Die lehnen zunächst ab und stellen dann Forderungen, unübliche und für eine unabhängige Redaktion unerfüllbare Forderungen. Chefredakteur Armin Maus…

The history of Artificial Intelligence,” said my computer science professor on the first day of class, “is a history of failure.” This harsh judgment summed up 50 years of trying to get computers to think. Sure, they could crunch numbers a billion times faster in 2000 than they could in 1950, but…

The photograph that Markisha McClenton posted on Instagram is a self-portrait, a close-up that is muted in dim light. She might be on her way to work. She might be coming home. Her workdays begin and end in the dark, and they are dark in between. She’s a lab technician in Jacksonville, Fla. Her…