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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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Open Source Hardware Movement Seeks Legitimacy
A group of technologists recently established the Open Source Hardware Association to promote the creation and sharing of hardware or electronic designs.
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Google Patents Tech to Serve Ads Based on Background Noise
Google has received a patent for technology that would enable it to deliver advertising based on what it calls "environment conditions."
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Cryptography Pioneer: We Need Good Code
Whitfield Diffie, a pioneer of public-key cryptography, told the recent Black Hat Europe conference that a good plan to secure software is needed in the age of...
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Senators, Critics Question Icann's Generic Tld Plan
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' plan to introduce hundreds of new generic top-level domains next year may be moving too fast, said U.S....
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German Court Rules Users Can Modify Free Software
Advocates of free software are hailing a decision by a German court to prevent a DSL router vendor from blocking a software maker from altering the device's Linux...
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Xbrl Group Offers Cash Prize For Open Source Tools
XBRL U.S. has created a competition to encourage the development of better tools that work with the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standard for financial...
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Law Enforcement Lobbies Hard For Icann Change
U.S. and U.K. law enforcement officials are lobbying ICANN to impose more stringent regulations on registrars for generic top-level domains.
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Cheerleader For New Domain Names Defends Icann Plan
A pair of recently released reports, authored by University of Chicago professor Dennis Carlton, says that introducing new top-level domains (TLDs) will not force...
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Government Cyberattacks Militarize the Web
Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are now being used by governments as another way to counter opposition, warns Arbor Networks senior security researcher...
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Proposed Law Might Make Wi-Fi Users Help Cops
Congressional Republicans have introduced the Internet Security Act, legislation in the U.S. House and Senate that would require Internet service providers (ISPs)...12