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The Coming Superbrain
from John Markoff at The New York Times Artificial intelligence is back in fashion, which raises the question: Will computer …
Momentum Builds For Ron Paul’s Fed Transparency Act, HR 1207
The goal of this bill is simple: direct the Government Accountability Office to complete, before the end of 2010, an …
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Inside the bad-ass world of military research
Few science teams can match the flash and audacity of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Last week DARPA …
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The case of the missing H-bomb
I suppose the two books I’ve written (and the third that I’m working on now) are historical thrillers, in that …
Forbes: Audit the Federal Reserve, by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
The Federal Reserve’s recent and unprecedented actions in the realm of monetary policy have provoked a backlash among the American …
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1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell
from The Guardian In 1946 Observer editor David Astor lent George Orwell a remote Scottish farmhouse in which to write …
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G20 police ‘used undercover men to incite crowds’
from The Guardian An MP who was involved in last month’s G20 protests in London is to call for an …
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Botnet master hits the kill switch, takes down 100,000 PCs
Those behind the Zeus botnet recently decided to press the big red button, bluescreening 100,000 computers around the globe. Security …
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Earth’s Magnetic Field Hisses Due to Distant “Chorus”
from National Geographic Thousands of miles above Earth, a cosmic chorus is filling the heavens with a mysterious, low frequency …
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A Battle to Preserve a Visionary’s Bold Failure
from William J. Broad at The New York Times Published: May 5, 2009 A fight is looming on Long Island …
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Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords in an hour
The Torpig botnet was hijacked by the good guys for ten days earlier this year before its controllers issued an …
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