Rights Groups Say Some U.S. Drone Strikes May Be War Crimes
Two prominent human rights groups today blasted America's drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen, painting a grim picture of massive civilian deaths and potentially grave violations of international law.Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required for GPS Trackers
An appellate court has finally supplied an answer to an open question left dangling by the Supreme Court in 2012: Do law enforcement agencies need a probable-cause warrant to affix a GPS tracker to a target's vehicle? The Third Circuit Court ...Army’s Amazing Exoskeleton Restores Power to Injured Legs
The U.S. Army's carbon fiber exoskeleton foot has allowed soldiers with badly injured legs get back on their feet. Now it's coming to the rest of us.-
Today’s Complex Data Can Help Predict the Future’s War Zones
Researchers have created a mapping system data scientists can mine to produce forecasts, based on short- and long-term trends, that could help aid agencies prepare for crises.Inside Julian Assange’s Alleged Plot to Steal The Fifth Estate Book
The time: January 2011. The location: Ellingham Hall, an elegant mansion northeast of London. The scene: Julian Assange sits in front of a fire, entertaining a visitor from America. The conversation is light at first, but as it turns serious, ...Killer Robots With Automatic Rifles Could Be on the Battlefield in 5 Years
Robots armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank missiles and even grenade launchers are marching, er, rolling ever closer to the battlefield now that they've shown they can actually hit what they're supposed to.Feds Sued for Hiding NSA Spying From Terror Defendants
Five years after Congress authorized warrantless electronic spying, the President Barack Obama administration has never divulged to a single defendant that they were the target of this type of phone or email surveillance -- despite lawmakers' claims the snooping has ...MPAA Claims Victory as File-Sharing Service IsoHunt Shuts Down
The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt, which the courts have declared a massive copyright scofflaw, is shutting down to settle a long-running lawsuit from the Motion Picture Association of America, according to court records.Researchers Uncover Holes That Open Power Stations to Hacking
A pair of researchers have uncovered more than two dozen vulnerabilities in products used in critical infrastructure systems that would allow attackers to crash or hijack the servers controlling electric substations and water systems.Schneier: Strategies for Designing and Defending Against Backdoors
What the NSA wants is to be able to read encrypted information in as close to real-time as possible. It wants backdoors, just like the cybercriminals and less benevolent governments do. And we have to figure out how to make ...Feds Demand Supreme Court Thwart Challenge to NSA Phone Spying
The President Barack Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to reject a challenge to the National Security Agency's once-secret telephone metadata spying program.NSA Leaks Prompt Rethinking of U.S. Control Over the Internet’s Infrastructure
The leaders who run the internet's technical global infrastructure say the time has come to end U.S. dominance over it. In response to leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Fadi Chehadé, who heads the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ...A Necessary Evil: What It Takes For Democracy to Survive Surveillance
Where exactly is the maximum tolerable level of surveillance, beyond which it becomes oppressive? That happens when surveillance interferes with the functioning of democracy: when whistleblowers (such as Snowden) are likely to be caught.Special Ops Uniform Will Transform Commandos Into an Iron Man Army
Army researchers are developing an advanced military uniform that would turn a special ops commando into Iron Man.Lavabit Files Opening Brief in Landmark Privacy Case
Secure email provider Lavabit just filed the opening brief in its appeal of a court order demanding it turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the site.Pray That This Scary, Galloping Four-Legged Robot Never Comes for You
Last year when DARPA released video of its new robot designed to replicate the movements (and, eventually, speed) of a cheetah, some of us were creeped out by the machine’s ability to “chase and evade” at the rate of ...Two Generals Sacked Over Taliban Attack
The commandant of the Marine Corps took an extraordinary course of action in effectively firing two generals Monday for their failure to protect a massive base in Afghanistan that Taliban fighters attacked last year, resulting in the deaths of two ...Aging F-16 Converted Into a Target-Practice Drone
After nearly 40 years as the cornerstone of the U.S. Air Force’s fighter fleet, the F-16 tried out a a new role last week: robotic flying bull’s-eye. A modified F-16 took flight from Tindall Air Force Base in Florida without ...Conspiracy Theories Abound After Navy Yard Shooting
On the Internet, the Navy Yard tragedy is fodder for conspiracy theorists of varying intensity.Defense Secretary: Military Missed ‘Red Flags’ Before Navy Yard Shooting
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced Wednesday that he has ordered several reviews of facility security and background checks in response to Monday’s mass shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard that left a dozen people dead, acknowledging the multiple ...
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