Hacker steals sensitive infrastructure data from U.S. military
The corrupted database contains comprehensive information about 79,000 dams across the country
Thursday, May 2, 2013 8:34 PM UTCGlobalPost
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- Privacy
- Social Media
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- Drones
Artist puts out call for sexts
Karen Finley's exhibit at the New Museum will feature sketches and oil paintings of patrons' smutty sex pics
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Text messaging down across the U.S.
Internet-based applications are starting to eat into phone companies' profit margins
Thursday, May 2, 2013 8:21 PM UTCAssociated Press
Dutch police may get right to hack into computers
Under new bill, investigators would be able to hack into computers, install spyware, read emails and destroy files
Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:23 PM UTCHacking, Holland, Spying
America hates science
A student scientist is arrested for experimenting with Drano. No wonder we're falling behind the rest of the world
Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:04 PM UTC 45Scientific American
Google Earth as art
In his latest installation, Jeroen Nelemans views a suburban home through the lens of virtual technology
Thursday, May 2, 2013 6:56 PM UTCHyperallergic, Google
Police, politicians push for increased surveillance post-Boston
Measures include giving law enforcement officials access to cameras used to monitor traffic
Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:06 AM UTCAssociated Press, Philadelphia
Media companies reap benefits of higher network fees
Time Warner Inc., Viacom Inc. and Comcast Corp. all saw growth in their cable network businesses this quarter
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 8:27 PM UTCAssociated Press
Facebook is blowing it
Mark Zuckerberg won't let me turn off the spammy online dating ads on my smartphone. It's a big mistake
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 8:24 PM UTC 43Facebook, Advertising
IBM makes world’s tiniest movie
"A Boy and His Atom" shows carbon monoxide molecules rearranged in the form of a boy bouncing on a trampoline VIDEO
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:45 PM UTCVideo, Associated Press, IBM, Atom
Twitter vs. the New York Times: Who wins?
Megabucks libertarian Peter Thiel touts the social media network. But don't count newspapers out
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 4:39 PM UTCTwitter, New York Times
Apple selling record amount in bonds
The computer company is making its first debt issue since the 1990s
Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 10:04 PM UTCAssociated Press, Apple
Online poker goes legit
A Las Vegas-based casino has launched the first fully legal poker website in the United States
Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 9:58 PM UTCAssociated Press, Online Poker
Government preparing to fine tech firms that don’t comply with wiretaps
A DOJ task force’s proposal would penalize companies like Google or Facebook and pique privacy concerns
Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 6:12 PM UTCwiretap, Internet
The Department of iPhone Security
Claiming issues of "public safety" are involved, ICE agents help Apple bust South Florida smartphone repair shops
Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 6:03 PM UTCApple, iPhone, Smartphone
S&P 500 reaches new high
The stock market has recovered all the ground it lost over the previous two weeks
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 10:44 PM UTCAssociated Press
Google’s new answer to Siri
Google Now, a free iPhone and iPad app, performs many of the same functions as the Apple software
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 10:30 PM UTCAssociated Press, Siri, Google
Mark Zuckerberg is not trying to drill in ANWR
Environmentalists can relax. The Facebook founder's new PAC is not pushing a pro-fossil fuel agenda
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 10:28 PM UTCZuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg
Wikipedia’s shame
Sexism isn't the problem at the online encyclopedia. The real corruption is the lust for revenge
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 6:04 PM UTC 104wikipedia, Amand Filipacchi
Can we record our inner monologues?
An anthropologist at the University of Manchester is pioneering a new peripatetic transcription of consciousness VIDEO
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 4:56 PM UTCScientific American, Video
Cyberattack suspect to return to Netherlands
The suspect, identified only as S.K., is accused of hacking the anti-spam watchdog group Spamhaus
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 4:29 PM UTCAssociated Press, netherlands
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev scrubbed online presence before bombings
According to family friends, the bombing suspect deleted his Instagram account two weeks prior to the attacks
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 4:00 PM UTCthe daily dot, Boston Marathon
Amanda Palmer to Morrissey: Let me help you crowdsource your next album
The former Smiths singer has complained that no label wants him. With such passionate fans, he does not need one
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 27Morrissey, smiths, Music
Forget copyright! We’ve always stolen music
The politics of copyright place the interests of big business over fans, the public -- and artists
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 9:00 PM UTC 31Music, Art in Crisis, Copyright
App of the Week: Twitter Music
Social media and music discovery never looked so good. But be careful who you follow
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 6:00 PM UTCapp of the week, Twitter Music
6 ways Big Pharma manipulates consumers
While many top-market pills have gone off patent, the pharmaceutical industry still knows how to turn a profit
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 1:00 PM UTCAlterNet, Pharmaceuticals
Will smartglasses replace eyeglasses?
Researchers say the future looks bright for Google Glass and other companies in the smartglass market
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 11:00 PM UTCScientific American, Google
We tried to weaponize the weather
Cold War secrets: Melting polar ice cap with nukes, changing the sea level, even LSD weapons were all on the table
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 7:00 PM UTC 41Books, Cold War, Climate Change
Top 5 investigative videos: Stoned on the job
From pot brownies to nerve-calming heads of lettuce, a look at the finest docs YouTube has to offer VIDEO
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 6:00 PM UTCVideo
The pleasures of hate-reading GOOP
Paltrow's dopey newsletter offers advice on quinoa and Corsican spas -- and somehow it's mesmerizingly readable
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 12daily dot, Gwyneth Paltrow, goop
Canada tightens restrictions on Bitcoin trading
Both the Royal Bank of Canada and TDBank have frozen Bitcoin accounts, without explaining their reasoning
Friday, Apr 26, 2013 10:31 PM UTCthe daily dot, bitcoins, Canada
How scared should we be of avian flu?
H7N9 has killed 22 in China. An expert explains whether our fears of a global epidemic are founded
Friday, Apr 26, 2013 3:52 PM UTCGlobalPost, China, Avian Flu, H7N9
Failed HIV vaccine clinical trial shut down
Researchers faced a major setback in the pursuit of an HIV vaccine after the shot was shown to be ineffective
Friday, Apr 26, 2013 3:20 PM UTCHIV/AIDS, AIDS, Science
Possible suspect in ricin case goes into hiding
A Mississippi man has dropped out of sight from the media while cooperating with authorities, his lawyer says
Friday, Apr 26, 2013 11:28 AM UTCAssociated Press, Ricin
Facebook helps solve 45-year-old murder
A 1968 hit-and-run in upstate New York had gone unsolved -- until a retired cop renewed the investigation online
Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 8:59 PM UTCthe daily dot, Facebook
Syria may have crossed “red line” with use of chemical weapons
Officials say more proof is needed, and the U.S. is not ready to escalate its involvement in the conflict
Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 5:13 PM UTCAssociated Press, Chuck Hagel
Bill Clinton joins Twitter
@BillClinton started tweeting Wednesday, and he already has hundreds of thousands of followers
Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 5:00 PM UTCthe daily dot, Bill Clinton
Astronomers solve mystery of water on Jupiter
The water first surfaced after the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with the planet in 1994
Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 4:38 PM UTCGlobalPost, Jupiter, NASA
Hagel: Syrian government likely used chemical weapons
President Obama has said the use of such weaponry would could prompt the U.S. to intervene in the Syrian civil war
Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 4:00 PM UTCAssociated Press, Barack Obama
Gut microbe makes diesel biofuel
Studies show reconfiguring the genetics of E. coli can produce hydrocarbons identical to those burned in trucks
Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 3:14 PM UTCScientific American
Could Tsarnaev have hid from infrared?
How the technology made escape virtually impossible for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect
Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 11:28 PM UTC 13Scientific American, Tsarnaev
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