Facebook to add video to Instagram

Users will be able to record 15-second clips by tapping an icon on the popular app

Thursday, Jun 20, 2013 5:45 PM UTC
Associated Press, Facebook

Facebook security chief joined NSA in 2010

Max Kelly's career exemplifies the tangled cyberpower nexus upholding our surveillance state

Thursday, Jun 20, 2013 3:59 PM UTC
Facebook, Max Kelly, NSA

Los Angeles school system to outfit all students with iPads

The announcement marks a major victory for Apple in its quest to replace textbooks with tablet computers

Associated Press Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 8:55 PM UTC 13
Associated Press, Los Angeles

FBI admits to using drones over U.S. soil

Robert Mueller tells Congress surveillance drones have been used, prompting calls for domestic legislation

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 8:06 PM UTC 15

WikiLeaks helping Snowden seek asylum

Assange said his organization has been talking to the whistle-blower's legal team about possible deal with Iceland

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 7:39 PM UTC
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks

Probe launched into TWA Flight 800 crash

New evidence suggests that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet

, Associated Press Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 7:31 PM UTC 71
Associated Press, TWA Flight

Bitcoin tax time?

A U.S. government report explores how the IRS should deal with the libertarian-beloved cryptocurrency

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 7:14 PM UTC
Bitcoin, Taxes, IRS, libertarians

Internet trolls love feminist writers

The irony is that for all their misogyny, they spend an inordinate amount of time reading about women's issues

, PolicyMic Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 5:25 PM UTC 176
PolicyMic, Feminism, Internet

Popularity boost for search engines outside NSA dragnets

DuckDuckGo, among others, is benefiting from never tracking user data in the first place VIDEO

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 4:30 PM UTC
Video, DuckDuckGo, Prism, Google

The obsolescence of Steve Jobs

A remarkable video clip from 1994 captures the Apple founder pondering silicon ephemerality VIDEO

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 4:18 PM UTC 15
Video, Steve Jobs, Apple

Why metadata really is the message

Top cryptologist explains for Wired that the NSA has a terrifying tool: a "a National Relationship Database"

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 3:08 PM UTC
NSA, Matt Blaze, metadata

Google to the NSA: Don’t be evil

Citing the First Amendment, the search giant files a court challenge to the government's surveillance gag orders

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 8:43 PM UTC
Google, NSA, Surveillance, FISA

Hackers replace Brazil World Cup website with protest footage

The cyberattack symbolized growing rage against a status quo crystallized in World Cup, Olympics spending VIDEO

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 8:37 PM UTC
Video, hackers, Brazil, World Cup

Billion-dollar bioterror detection program under new scrutiny

An early warning alert system designed to sniff out airborne threats is being reviewed by a House subcommittee

, Scientific American Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 6:57 PM UTC
Scientific American, bioterror

Hacktivists strike north of the border

Anonymous allies LulzSec Albania have hacked the Swiss Canadian Chamber of Commerce, for reasons unknown

, The Daily Dot Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 6:15 PM UTC
the daily dot

House hearing in celebration of NSA spying

Congress gives spy chiefs open platform to explain why hoarding all your data is great

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 6:06 PM UTC 10
Keith Alexander, Mike Rogers

Freedom from the dead battery menace

AT&T is bringing solar-powered recharging stations to the people. What could possibly be wrong with that?

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 5:20 PM UTC
AT&T, Smart Phones

Ray Kelly, who oversaw secret Muslim spying, slams NSA secrecy

The NYPD commissioner said NSA should have been more transparent, having lied about his own surveillance program

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 2:58 PM UTC
NSA, Ray Kelly, NYPD, Police, Muslims

That new supercomputer is not your friend

China reclaims the fastest computer in the world prize. Get ready for even better surveillance

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 9:38 PM UTC 13
China, supercomputers, Tianhe-2

Netflix to run original Dreamworks TV series

The agreement calls for more than 300 hours of new programming

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 8:03 PM UTC
Associated Press, dreamworks

Bloomberg’s Siri joke slights female engineers

His comment that Stanford grads should come to New York to date girls leaves a lot of women out

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 6:56 PM UTC 10
Bloomberg, Siri, Stanford

Turnkey totalitarianism

When libertarians get it right: A Cato fellow explains the true danger of surveillance gone amok

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 4:12 PM UTC
Surveillance

Schieffer on Snowden: This kid is a jerk because Dr. King and 9/11

Old man does not care for young whistle-blowing "narcissist" VIDEO

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 2:08 PM UTC 96
Video, Opening Shot

Wait, did M. Night Shyamalan lie about writing “She’s All That”?

The movie's screenwriter, R. Lee Fleming, Jr., says the "The Sixth Sense" director's claims are bogus VIDEO

, The Daily Dot Monday, Jun 17, 2013 2:02 PM UTC
"She's All That

5 key takeaways from the NSA scandal

In one fell swoop, Edward Snowden has laid bare the wants and desires of our surveillance state

, TomDispatch.com Monday, Jun 17, 2013 12:48 PM UTC 12
TomDispatch.com, Edward Snowden

Jay-Z announces new album, deal with Samsung

"Magna Carta Holy Grail" will be free for the first million android users who download an app for the album

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 12:39 PM UTC
Associated Press, Jay-Z, Galaxy

UK spies reportedly hacked foreign diplomats

A new report reveals the British government even set up a bugged Internet cafe during international conferences

, Associated Press Monday, Jun 17, 2013 12:15 PM UTC
Associated Press, David Cameron

Could Bitcoin become the official currency of Kenya?

Its reliance on mobile technology makes the African nation a prime candidate for widespread adoption

, The Daily Dot Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 7:30 PM UTC
the daily dot, Bitcoin, Kenya

App of the Week: The Sonnet Project

A perfect match of medium and mode: 14-line poems by the greatest writer who ever lived come to the smartphone

Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 6:00 PM UTC
app of the week, Shakespeare

My first Father’s Day without my father

I take some solace in the idea that my parents are "reunited." But that doesn't make this holiday any easier

, ProPublica Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 5:00 PM UTC
ProPublica, Father's Day

Now the dead can send Facebook messages too

A new app lets users record video messages that are released to friends and family postmortem

, The Tyee Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 3:00 PM UTC
The Tyee, If I Die, Facebook, Death

Top 5 investigative videos of the week: World’s worst charities exposed

From the slums of Mexico to the skyscrapers of Singapore, a sampling of the finest docs YouTube has to offer VIDEO

, The I Files Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 1:00 PM UTC
Video, The I Files

About half the Senate skipped classified NSA briefing

Father's Day was more important

Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 8:18 PM UTC 11
NSA, Senate

Lynda Obst: Hollywood’s completely broken

When you stopped buying DVDs and started streaming on Netflix, Hollywood's economics changed. So did the movies

Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 7:30 PM UTC 194
Books, Movies, Editor's Picks

Privacy versus security: Does the NSA’s surveillance program work?

Panelists on "Up with Steve" exchange theories about the government's surveillance programs VIDEO

Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 6:50 PM UTC 22
Video, government surveillance

PRISM software works just like Facebook ads

Data-mining expert Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro says the spy technology has been around for years

, International Business Times Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 3:00 PM UTC
International Business Times

PRISM part of a much larger government surveillance program

Companies have been handling requests from the FBI for years, under a program called US-98XN

Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 1:54 PM UTC
Prism, NSA

Al Jazeera: The most-feared news network

Al Jazeera is well-funded and doesn't need to make money. But its prospects, here and in Middle East, are uncertain

Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 10:00 AM UTC
Books, Editor's Picks, Al Jazeera

Daniel Ellsberg: Edward Snowden is a patriot

The man behind the Pentagon Papers talks NSA, Bradley Manning and whistle-blowers' importance in a new interview

Friday, Jun 14, 2013 4:34 PM UTC 16
Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden

White suburban soccer moms love NSA surveillance!

Why should they care if the government has their data? They don't fear becoming innocent targets of persecution

Friday, Jun 14, 2013 12:53 PM UTC 97
NSA, suburbs, Surveillance, Spying

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