Complex Algorithm Auto-Writes Books, Could Transform Science - 0 views
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dr tech on 01 Jun 13"computer programs can accelerate discovery in the sciences faster than scientists can, if the computer is trained to behave like one"
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Facial-Recognition App Can Help Identify Missing Children - 0 views
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"Advertising agency JWT China and missing children site Baby Back Home have jointly developed an app in China that utilizes facial-recognition technology to help identify missing or kidnapped kids, Creativity Online reported. The organizations say that, with a population reaching approximately 1.4 billion, everyone can be a search volunteer."
Turkish protesters using encryption software to evade censors | Technology | guardian.c... - 0 views
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"Facebook and Twitter reported to have been blocked in run-up to protests, with people turning to VPNs to broadcast content"
UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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"UK's electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence from the world's biggest internet companies through a covertly run operation set up by America's top spy agency, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal."
'Boundless Informant' Is a Secret NSA Tool to Data-Mine the World - 0 views
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"The NSA has a tool that records and analyzes all the flow of data that the spy agency collects around the world. Think of it as a global data-mining software that details exactly how much intelligence, and of what type, has been collected from every country in the world. It's aptly called "Boundless Informant." "
UK government online disability benefits signup requires IE6 - Boing Boing - 0 views
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"To claim Disability Living Allowance or Attendance Allowance in the UK people are being asked to use Internet Explorer 5 or 6 and other systems that are so out of date they are available on less than 2% of computers. If you want to claim online you will need to take a step back to the 1990s and hunt through second hand shops for an old PC that you can power up. "
Internet anonymity is the height of chic | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views
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"In this age of information overload, internet exhibitionism and NSA snooping, is it possible to make yourself unGoogleable? And does it earn you added credibility, as fashion designer Phoebe Philo and bands such as !!! suggest?"
NSA surveillance: don't underestimate the extraordinary power of metadata | Technology ... - 0 views
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"President Obama has reassured US citizens that 'nobody is listening to your calls', but it's not the content of conversations that intelligence agencies crave"
Google does not have to delete sensitive information, says European court | Technology ... - 0 views
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"Google is not obliged to delete personal information from its search results, even when that information damages an individual's reputation, an adviser to the European court of justice has decided."
Bitcoin's successors: from Litecoin to Freicoin and onwards | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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"Everyone in the cryptocurrency world has heard of Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin. But not many have heard of Peter Bushnell, the not-so-mysterious inventor of Feathercoin. On 20 April, he announced his alternative currency to a gaggle of online followers. One month later, nearly 7m of them have been mined"
UK censorwall will also block "terrorist content," "violence," "circumvention tools," "... - 0 views
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Huge chunks of the Internet will be effectively unreachable, and which sites go into the censorship bucket will be decided upon in secret, by unelected employees of big corporations, like China's Huawei. Sure, you can untick the box if you want, but as David Cameron's advisors will tell you, defaults are powerful and most users never change them.
David Cameron's favourite censorware is built and maintained by Huawei - Boing Boing - 0 views
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"Now the BBC reports that Homesafe was built by Huawei, the Chinese IT giant Huawei, founded by Ren Zhengfei, a former officer in China's People's Liberation Army. Huawei has been characterized by senior Western spooks as an arm of the Chinese intelligence service, conducting industrial espionage on its behalf. "
PIN-punching $200 robot can brute force every Android numeric screen-password in 19 hou... - 0 views
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Justin Engler and Paul Vines will demo a robot called the Robotic Reconfigurable Button Basher (R2B2) at Defcon; it can work its way through every numeric screen-lock Android password in 19 hours.
Letters: Protecting our children from porn | Culture | The Guardian - 0 views
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"There is no quick technical fix that will protect children - it needs education, responsible parenting and more resources for enforcing the laws that already exist. Dr Martyn Thomas Institution of Engineering and Technology"
Who's accountable for Britain's Internet censorwall? - Boing Boing - 0 views
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""It seems Cameron and Perry have ignored official government policy, invented their own policy and forced it onto UK ISPs. With no legislation, and no complaints from Lib Dem MPS or the ISPs, we have completely unaccountable "nudge censorship" being forced onto the UK population with no debate.""
Tech Terms Censored Online in China - 0 views
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"A new study released this month in First Monday uncovers more than 4,000 unique keywords censored over the last year and a half on Chinese instant messaging platforms. Focusing on Skype and the microblogging service Sina Weibo, the researchers cultivated their keyword list using reverse-engineering techniques such as packet sniffing, which captures and analyzes packets of data as they pass through a network."
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