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Beyond Unlocking: Don't Let Them Kill the First Reasonable Copyright Reform Bill

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - May. 11 (Opinion) - Beyond Unlocking: Don't Let Them Kill the First Reasonable Copyright Reform Bill

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Government Seeks to Fine Companies for Not Complying With Wiretap Orders

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Kim Zetter - Apr. 30 (News) - It isn’t often that communications companies push back against government requests to monitor customers and hand over information about them, but a government task force is seeking to make it even harder for companies to say no. The task force is pushing for legislation that would penalize companies like Google, Facebook and Skype that fail to comply with court orders for wiretapping, according to the Washington Post. The cost of non-complying would be an escalating series of fines, starting at tens of thousands of dollars. Fines that remained unpaid after 90 days would double daily.

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Pentagon Paying China — Yes, China — To Carry Data

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Noah Shachtman - Apr. 30 (News) - Pentagon Paying China — Yes, China — To Carry Data

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How the CIA's Bags of Cash Undermined the Afghanistan War

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Spencer Ackerman - Apr. 29 (Opinion) - It’s the most understandable, intuitive and tempting mistake in geopolitics: secretly pay a powerful foreigner to do what you want. The CIA, like many spy agencies, has done it throughout its history, and now we know it helped undermine the America’s longest war.

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Pesticide Suspected in Bee Die-Offs Could Also Kill Birds

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - Pesticide Suspected in Bee Die-Offs Could Also Kill Birds

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China's Newest Stealth Fighter May Head to Sea, State Media Says

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Axe - Mar. 14 (News Report) - China's Newest Stealth Fighter May Head to Sea, State Media Says

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11 Years Later, Senate Wakes Up to War on Terror's 'Battlefield America'

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Mar. 07 (Opinion) - 11 Years Later, Senate Wakes Up to War on Terror's 'Battlefield America'

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Over $8B of the Money You Spent Rebuilding Iraq Was Wasted Outright

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Mar. 06 (Opinion) - Over $8B of the Money You Spent Rebuilding Iraq Was Wasted Outright

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Full Green Ahead: Inside the Military's Clean-Energy Revolution

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Climate Desk - Feb. 28 (News) - Full Green Ahead: Inside the Military's Clean-Energy Revolution

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Spider-Man Physics: How Real Is the Superhero?

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - Spider-Man Physics: How Real Is the Superhero?

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Cybersleuths Uncover 5-Year-Old Spy Operation Targeting Governments

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Kim Zetter - Jan. 14 (Special Report) - An advanced and well-orchestrated computer spy operation that targeted diplomats, governments and research institutions for at least five years has been uncovered by security researchers in Russia.

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State Secrets Defense Corners Judge in 'Catch-22' Predicament

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Dec. 15 (News) - State Secrets Defense Corners Judge in 'Catch-22' Predicament

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Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Dec. 14 (News) - Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans

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Fact Check: Microsoft's Claims About App Numbers for Windows Phone

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Alexandra Chang - Oct. 31 (Fact Check) - Fact Check: Microsoft's Claims About App Numbers for Windows Phone

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Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Steven Levy - Oct. 17 - Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center

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Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electronic Spying Case

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Kravets - Oct. 10 (News Report) - The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s bid to hold the nation’s telecoms liable for allegedly providing the National Security Agency with backdoors to eavesdrop, without warrants, on Americans’ electronic communications in violation of federal law.

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Ouch: Romney Calls Tesla a 'Loser'

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Ryan Singel - Oct. 04 (Comment) - Ouch: Romney Calls Tesla a 'Loser'

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After Epic Hack, Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Nathan Olivarez-Giles, Mat Honan - Aug. 08 (News) - Apple on Tuesday ordered its support staff to immediately stop processing AppleID password changes requested over the phone, following the identity hacking of Wired reporter Mat Honan over the weekend, according to Apple employees.

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Supreme Court Upholds Right to Lie About Military Honors

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Kravets - Jun. 28 (News Report) - Supreme Court Upholds Right to Lie About Military Honors

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Congress Looking Happy to Reauthorize Broad, Secret Spy Powers

Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - May. 31 (News) - Congress Looking Happy to Reauthorize Broad, Secret Spy Powers

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U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use 'Hiroshima' Tactics for 'Total War' on Islam

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Noah Shachtman, Spencer Ackerman - May. 10 (Special Report) - The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the “civilian population wherever necessary.”

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How to Spot the Future

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Thomas Goetz - Apr. 25 (Opinion) - Thirty years ago, when John Naisbitt was writing Megatrends, his prescient vision of America’s future, he used a simple yet powerful tool to spot new ideas that were bubbling in the zeitgeist: the newspaper. He didn’t just read it, though. He took out a ruler and measured it. The more column inches a particular topic earned over time, the more likely it represented an emerging trend. “The collective news hole,” Naisbitt wrote, “becomes a mechanical representation of society sorting out its priorities”—and he used that mechanism to predict the information society, globalism, decentralization, and the rise of networks.

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Memeorandum Colors 2012: Visualizing Bias on Political Blogs

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Andy Baio - Apr. 18 (Special Report) - I don’t watch sports, but every four years, I lose myself in the horse race of the U.S. presidential elections. That competition kicked off in earnest Monday, as Gallup started its daily tracking polls for the general election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. In 2008, I was hooked on one drug for my daily fix: Memeorandum, a completely automated aggregator that surfaces popular stories from political news sites, often within minutes.

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Exposed: Inside the NSA's Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center in Bluffdale, Utah

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Mar. 21 (News Report) - A new exposé in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed "Stellar Wind." We speak with investigative reporter James Bamford, who says the NSA has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas.

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Are Emotions Prophetic?

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Jonah Lehrer - Mar. 04 (Special Report) - For thousands of years, human beings have looked down on their emotions. We’ve seen them as primitive passions, the unfortunate legacy of our animal past. When we do stupid things – say, eating too much cake, or sleeping with the wrong person, or taking out a subprime mortgage – we usually blame our short-sighted feelings. People commit crimes of passion. There are no crimes of rationality. This bias against feeling has led people to assume that reason is always best. When faced with a difficult dilemma, most of us believe that it’s best to carefully assess our options and spend a few moments consciously deliberating the information. Then, we should choose the alternative that best fits our preferences. This is how we maximize utility; rationality is our Promethean gift. But what if this is all backwards? What if our emotions know more than we know? What if our feelings are smarter than us?

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