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Sandia Labs: SOPA will 'negatively impact' U.S. cybersecurity

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

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IPv6 Day: Kicking the tires of a next-gen Net today

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - Jun. 09 (News) - The computing industry has begun a major 24-hour test today to work the kinks out of IPv6, a disruptive but necessary overhaul of the Internet's inner workings.

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U.S., U.K. see cyberwar as facet of regular war

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Stephen Shankland - May. 31 (News Report) - Reports from the United States and United Kingdom military this week indicate those organizations are more comfortable voicing an idea I find blindingly obvious: cyberwar is war.

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Senators announce Internet death penalty bill

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Amazon cloud outage derails Reddit, Quora

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Stephen Shankland - Apr. 21 (News) - A partial failure at Amazon Web Services' cloud-computing infrastructure brought down some Internet operations today, including the Web sites of Quora and Reddit.

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Senate Democrats back TSA 'virtual strip searches'

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Nov. 17 (News Report) - Foes of the Transportation Security Agency's new air-screening procedures, including law enforcement-style pat-downs and what have been called "virtual strip searches," had hoped that today's Senate hearing would lead to a privacy outcry on Capitol Hill. Not quite. The hearing quickly cleaved along partisan lines, with Democratic senators applauding the Obama administration and Republicans offering only modest criticism.

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Is Google Instant ad trying to annoy Steve Jobs?

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Chris Matyszczyk - Sep. 10 (Opinion) - If you were launching the first step into implanting your product permanently into someone's brain, would you employ Bob Dylan? Oh, I know he's a very fine musician, autobiographer and performer at corporate functions. But does he still symbolize the idea that the times are a-changin' and your brain needs re-arrangin'? This vexing question occupies the part of my mind normally reserved for baseball and scones because Google Instant, the search engine that tries to know what you want slightly before you do, seems to have done an ad featuring the original Robert Zimmerman. To the tune of his "Subterranean Homesick Blues," we see how instantly Google's new tool anticipates the fact that someone is making an ad featuring the lyrics to "Subterranean Homesick Blues."

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Study: Two-thirds of Web surfers fall prey to online crime

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Elinor Mills - Sep. 08 (News Report) - The average cybercrime takes 28 days to resolve at a cost of, on average, $334, according to a new study to be released Wednesday.

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Debunking the Internet apocalypse

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Marguerite Reardon - Aug. 16 (Opinion) - As I read the criticism of Google and Verizon's supposed evil plan to demolish the Internet, and as I hear about "protests" of several dozen people at Google's headquarters, I scratch my head and wonder: am I missing something?

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Google, Verizon propose Net neutrality framework

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Marguerite Reardon, Tom Krazit - Aug. 09 (News Report) - CEOs from Google and Verizon Communications on Monday announced a proposal to policymakers for keeping the Internet open. The companies jointly suggested a legislative framework for consideration by lawmakers. The major breakthrough in the proposal is an agreement that the nondiscrimination clause that the Federal Communications Commission has proposed as part of its regulatory efforts would be enforceable. "We agree that, in addition to these existing principles, there should be a new, enforceable prohibition against discriminatory practices," the proposal states. (See entire document embedded below.) "This means that for the first time, wireline broadband providers would not be able to discriminate against or prioritize lawful Internet content, applications, or services in a way that causes harm to users or competition."

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Harnessing a star's power for clean energy

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Daniel Terdiman - Jun. 04 (News Report) - The hope is that NIF will be online as a power plant within 15 to 20 years. For now, the facility is a proof-of-concept system, albeit one comprising two 10-story buildings and more than $3 billion of investment. Eventually, the 192 laser beams reunite to focus on a target fuel pellet that is just millimeters in size, yet placed inside a target chamber that towers over the technicians who sometimes work inside.

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Marc Maiffret--the quick rise of a teen hacker (Q&A)

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Elinor Mills - Apr. 17 (Interview) - As a co-founder of eEye Digital Security, the street-savvy, brash teen quickly became a thorn in the side of software giant Microsoft, finding vulnerabilities in its products, including the hole that the Code Red worm used to wriggle its way onto thousands of servers in 2001. Today, at 29, the boyish-looking Maiffret is still causing trouble--the good kind. He joined anti-malware firm FireEye in mid-December as chief security architect. In a recent interview with CNET, Maiffret talked about growing up fast and how he stays ahead of the game.

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Google gets go-ahead to buy, sell energy

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Candace Lombardi - Feb. 19 (News) - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has authorized Google Energy to buy and sell electricity in bulk like any other utility.

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Feds push for tracking cell phones

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh, CNET News - Feb. 11 (News Report) - Two years ago, when the FBI was stymied by a band of armed robbers known as the "Scarecrow Bandits" that had robbed more than 20 Texas banks, it came up with a novel method of locating the thieves.FBI agents obtained logs from mobile phone companies corresponding to what their

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The psychology of healthcare reform

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Adam Richardson - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - The House has passed the first comprehensive reform package of the health insurance industry in decades, which is now up for debate in the Senate. This is a highly complex issue, but there are some quite basic reasons why it's so difficult to accomplish significant reform, and in part these have to do with psychological responses to change and uncertainty.

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Crimeware: Looking for solutions | IT Security | TechRepublic.com

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:29:25 -0700

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Astronomers study 'gargantuan' Jupiter impact | The Space Shot

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - Jul. 21 (News Report) - Telegraph.co.ukAstronomers study 'gargantuan' Jupiter impactCNET NewsAn unseen comet or possibly an icy asteroid apparently crashed into Jupiter's atmosphere near the giant planet's south pole sometime during the last few days, creating a "gargantuan" blemish easily visible from Earth. ...Deep Impact: Jupiter Hit by Comet or MeteoroidABC NewsAnother Object Collides with Jupiter 15 Years After Shoemaker-Levy 9DailyTechJupiter's cosmic smash: what does it mean for Earth?Times OnlineBBC News?-Register?-Christian Science Monitorall 326 news articles??

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'#CNNFail': Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence | Webware

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Daniel Terdiman - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Even as Twitter became the best source for rapid-fire news developments from the front lines of the riots in Tehran, a growing number of users of the microblogging service were incredulous at the near total lack of coverage of the story on CNN, a network that cut its teeth with on-the-spot reporting from the Middle East.

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Zenn plans to be the 'Intel Inside' of electric cars

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Candace Lombardi - Mar. 26 (News Report) - Zenn CEO Ian Clifford offered a true-believer-style pep talk: With the commercialization of EESTor's game-changing electronic storage technology Zenn will take the central role in enabling electric drive around the world with a business model that can best be described as an Intel Inside energy solution custom tailored to work with any and all OEM platforms. We'll partner with the automotive industry and governments around the world to ensure that electric vehicles are available to all consumers both as new highly capably vehicles and conversions of existing internal combustion vehicles to Zennergy drive.

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For The New York Times, the digital future is now

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Daniel Terdiman - Mar. 10 (News Report) - By now, just about everyone who follows the media industry has heard of the deep fiscal troubles of The New York Times. But even as the paper does its best for all the news that's fit for newsprint, it is also conducting experiments aimed at moving itself into the forefront of digital journalism.

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Obama picks Net neutrality backer as FCC chief

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Mar. 04 (News Report) - President Obama on Tuesday nominated Julius Genachowski as the nation's top telecommunications regulator, picking a campaign advisor who has divided his career between Washington, D.C., political jobs and working as an Internet executive.

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Leapfrog unveils 'baby BlackBerry' for tots |

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By David Carnoy - Jan. 28 (News Report) - Now kids can mimic their parents and send text messages and check their schedules at all hours of the day. The device, which is a bit bigger than your average BlackBerry, is geared toward preschoolers who are just learning to spell and includes games that focus on spelling and basic computer skills.

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Google accused of turning its back on Net neutrality | Politics and Law

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Dec. 15 (Opinion) - The problem with defining Net neutrality so the government can regulate it is a little like the problem of defining obscenity so the government can ban it: You know it when you see it.

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Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record.b

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Aug. 24 (Opinion) - By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

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Homeland Security: We can seize laptops for an indefinite period

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Aug. 02 (News Report) - A pair of DHS policies from last month say that customs agents can routinely--as a matter of course--seize, make copies of, and "analyze the information transported by any individual attempting to enter, re-enter, depart, pass through, or reside in the United States.

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