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Tuesday May 21, 2013 @08:03AM Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds
Saturday May 18, 2013 @10:17AM Fed. Appeals Court Says Police Need Warrant to Search Phone
Saturday May 18, 2013 @08:33AM FBI Considers CALEA II: Mandatory Wiretapping On Every Device
Friday May 17, 2013 @09:42PM Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns
Wednesday May 15, 2013 @06:13PM Justice Department Calls Apple the "Ringmaster" In e-book Price Fixing Case
Tuesday May 14, 2013 @09:06PM Russia Captures Alleged American CIA Agent In Moscow
Monday May 13, 2013 @03:27PM Did Internet Sales Tax Backers Bribe Congress? (Video)
Monday May 13, 2013 @10:05AM Smartphones Driving Violent Crime Across US
Sunday May 12, 2013 @07:58AM Congress Wants Federal Government To Sell 1755-1780 MHz Spectrum Band
Friday May 10, 2013 @07:12PM IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election
Thursday May 09, 2013 @06:07PM Obama Announces Open Data Policy With Executive Order
Thursday May 09, 2013 @03:49PM DoD Descends On DEFCAD
Tuesday May 07, 2013 @01:34PM CenturyLink's Nationwide Outage Affects Millions
Monday May 06, 2013 @08:15AM Bruce Schneier: Why Collecting More Data Doesn't Increase Safety
Monday May 06, 2013 @08:14AM Syria Buys Dell PCs Despite Sanctions
Monday May 06, 2013 @08:09AM USAF Hypersonic Scramjet Successfully Scrams
Sunday May 05, 2013 @07:29PM Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't
Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:51AM US Officials Rebuke India's Request To Subpoena Facebook, Google
Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:13AM Paul's Call To Abolish the TSA, One Year Later
Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:11AM Paul's Call To Abolish the TSA, One Year Later
Friday May 03, 2013 @07:51PM Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun
Thursday May 02, 2013 @06:25PM Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams
Thursday May 02, 2013 @12:19PM Putin Reportedly Comments On T-Platform Supercomputer Flap
Tuesday April 30, 2013 @11:44AM Variably Sunny: SCOTUS Allows Local FOIA Restrictions
Monday April 29, 2013 @09:15PM SOPA Creator Now In Charge of NSF Grants
Monday April 29, 2013 @10:20AM Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs
Sunday April 28, 2013 @08:21AM Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship
Friday April 26, 2013 @08:18AM CISPA Seems Dead In the US Senate
Thursday April 25, 2013 @11:05PM CenturyLink Providing DoD's Equivalent of Internet2
Wednesday April 24, 2013 @11:12PM House Judiciary Chairman Plans Comprehensive Review of US Copyright Law
Wednesday April 24, 2013 @12:14PM Federal Magistrate Rules That Fifth Amendment Applies To Encryption Keys
Wednesday April 24, 2013 @09:38AM HTC Does What Google Wouldn't: Sell an LTE Phone That Sidesteps AT&T
Tuesday April 23, 2013 @08:19AM RCMP Says Terror Plot Against Canadian Trains Thwarted
Monday April 22, 2013 @10:37AM State Secrets, No-Fly List Showdown Looms
Sunday April 21, 2013 @11:41AM Senate To Vote On Internet Sales Tax (For Real This Time)
Saturday April 20, 2013 @10:20PM TSA Accepting Public Comments On Whole Body Airport Screening
Saturday April 20, 2013 @12:43PM Bruce Schneier On the Marathon Bomber Manhunt
Friday April 19, 2013 @08:57PM Police Capture Second Marathon Bombing Suspect in Watertown, Mass.
Thursday April 18, 2013 @01:39PM CISPA Passes US House, Despite Privacy Shortcomings and Promised Veto
Wednesday April 17, 2013 @07:58PM Rep. Mike Rogers Dismisses CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeter On the Internet"
Wednesday April 17, 2013 @01:07PM Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President
Monday April 15, 2013 @04:58AM Some States Dropping GED Tests Due To Price Spikes
Sunday April 14, 2013 @06:39PM DARPA Cyber Chief "Mudge" Zatko Going To Google
Sunday April 14, 2013 @11:12AM NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs
Sunday April 14, 2013 @08:45AM Guantanamo Hearings Delayed as Legal Files Vanish
Friday April 12, 2013 @07:36AM Zuckerberg Lobbies For More Liberal Immigration Policies
Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:17PM FDA Approves Software For iPhone-Based Vision Test
Thursday April 11, 2013 @05:39PM US Gov't Blocks Sales To Russian Supercomputer Maker
Thursday April 11, 2013 @07:46AM Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness
Wednesday April 10, 2013 @11:55AM Iranians, Russians, and Chinese Hackers Are After You, Says Lawmaker
Tuesday April 09, 2013 @11:15AM "The Kissinger Cables": WikiLeaks Releases 1.7M Historical Records
Monday April 08, 2013 @06:09PM Is $100 Million Per Year Too Little For The Brain Map Initiative?
Monday April 08, 2013 @04:28PM Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014
Monday April 08, 2013 @09:45AM Study Suggests Patent Office Lowered Standards To Cope With Backlog
Monday April 08, 2013 @02:26AM WikiLeaks releasing 1.7 million records called "The Kissinger Cables"
Sunday April 07, 2013 @12:11AM Korea Tensions Lead To Delay Of Minuteman III Test Flight
Saturday April 06, 2013 @11:42PM NASA's Bolden: No American-Led Return To the Moon 'In My Lifetime'
Friday April 05, 2013 @06:22PM H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad
Thursday April 04, 2013 @02:25PM Want to Keep Messages From the Feds? Use iMessage
Thursday April 04, 2013 @01:38PM TSA Log Shows Passengers Say the Darndest Things
Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:52PM New CFAA Could Subject Teens To Jail For Reading Online News
Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:15PM Should the US Really Limit Chinese-Government Influenced IT Systems?
Tuesday April 02, 2013 @12:08PM FTC Awards $50k In Prizes To Cut Off Exasperating Robocalls
Saturday March 30, 2013 @07:38AM United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea
Friday March 29, 2013 @04:45PM US and Russia Lead List of Malware Hosts
Thursday March 28, 2013 @04:16PM Google Pledges Not To Sue Any Open Source Projects Using Their Patents
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @10:23AM PlanetIQ's Plan: Swap US Weather Sats For Private Ones
Monday March 25, 2013 @01:34PM NYC's Bloomberg On Drones: "Scary" But Inevitable
Monday March 25, 2013 @10:34AM Massachusetts May Try To Tax the Cloud
Sunday March 24, 2013 @10:11PM Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS
Sunday March 24, 2013 @04:54PM IRS Spent $60,000 Producing Star Trek Parody
Sunday March 24, 2013 @02:46PM TechCrunch:Expanded DMCA Still Has Limits
Sunday March 24, 2013 @09:28AM FCC Chair Genachowski Resigns; What Effect on Net Regulation?
Sunday March 24, 2013 @08:55AM Should Congress Telecommute?
Saturday March 23, 2013 @09:35PM Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo
Saturday March 23, 2013 @06:25PM 'Energy Beet' Power Is Coming To America
Saturday March 23, 2013 @02:35PM US Senate Passes National Internet Sales Tax Mandate
Saturday March 23, 2013 @02:26PM US Senate passes national Internet sales tax mandate
Saturday March 23, 2013 @09:18AM Florida House Passes Bill To Ban "Internet Cafes"
Friday March 22, 2013 @11:31PM Meteor Streaks Over American East Coast
Friday March 22, 2013 @09:41PM US Gov't To Scan More Civilian Infrastructure Traffic
Friday March 22, 2013 @06:03PM Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users
Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:51PM Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate
Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:29PM Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate
Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:26PM Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report
Thursday March 21, 2013 @11:29AM Possible Chemical Weapons Use In Syria
Thursday March 21, 2013 @10:20AM Digging Into the Legal Status of 3-D Printed Guns
Thursday March 21, 2013 @08:20AM CIA To Hand Over Drone Program To Pentagon?
Thursday March 21, 2013 @08:03AM Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @10:58PM Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason
Tuesday March 19, 2013 @11:04AM Supreme Court Upholds First Sale Doctrine
Monday March 18, 2013 @07:54PM Aaron Swartz's Estate Seeks Release of Documents
Friday March 15, 2013 @07:28AM US Cyber Command Discloses Offensive Cyberwarfare Capabilities
Friday March 15, 2013 @07:15AM NASA Restarts Plutonium Production
Thursday March 14, 2013 @05:57PM 10 Ways To Celebrate International Pi Day
Thursday March 14, 2013 @10:20AM H&R Block Software Glitch To Delay 600,000 U.S. Tax Refunds
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @12:53PM Bruce Schneier: A Cyber Cold War Could Destabilize the Internet
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @10:53AM Bruce Schneier: A Cyber Cold War" Could Destabilize the Internet
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @09:18AM What If Manning Had Leaked To the New York Times?
Monday March 11, 2013 @06:40PM Nuclear Arms Cuts, Supported By 56% of Americans, Would Make the World Safer
Saturday March 09, 2013 @04:58PM Sugar industry's secret docs echo Big Tobacco's anti-science tactics
Friday March 08, 2013 @10:37PM Court: 4th Amendment Applies At Border, Password Protected Files Not Suspicious
Friday March 08, 2013 @09:33PM Mass. Bill Would Put Privacy Squeeze on Cloud Apps For Schools
Friday March 08, 2013 @09:16PM US CompSci Enrollment Leaps For 5th Straight Year
Thursday March 07, 2013 @02:13PM Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location
Thursday March 07, 2013 @09:33AM North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike
Thursday March 07, 2013 @09:06AM Hockey Sticks Among Carry-On Items TSA Has Cleared For Planes
Wednesday March 06, 2013 @09:07PM US Attorney General Defends Handling of Aaron Swartz Case
Wednesday March 06, 2013 @05:49PM Ran Paul Launches a Real Life Filibuster Against Drones
Wednesday March 06, 2013 @01:06AM Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy
Saturday March 02, 2013 @08:49AM With 'Obamacare' Kicking In, Microsoft Sees a Health-Data Windfall
Friday March 01, 2013 @10:55PM Cablevision Suing Viacom Over Cable Bundling
Friday March 01, 2013 @08:07PM Criticism Of Copyright Alert System Mounts
Friday March 01, 2013 @10:21AM Chinese Hackers Target US Gas Pipelines in Die Hard-Style Attack
Thursday February 28, 2013 @05:49PM When It's Time To Scale, US Manufacturing Hits a Wall
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @01:22PM Federal Court OKs Amazon's System of Suggesting Alternative Products
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @04:13AM Helena Airport Manager Blocks TSA From Taking Full-Body Scanner
Monday February 25, 2013 @02:07PM Airport Manager Won't Let TSA Replace Body Scanner With Magnetometer
Sunday February 24, 2013 @08:25AM There Is Plenty To Cut At the Pentagon
Saturday February 23, 2013 @09:07PM U.S. Reps Chu and Coble Start Intellectual Property Caucus
Saturday February 23, 2013 @11:29AM White House Tells Agencies To Increase Access to Fed-Funded Research
Friday February 22, 2013 @07:50PM Carmakers Oppose Opening Up 5GHZ Spectrum Space For Unlicensed Wi-Fi
Friday February 22, 2013 @10:16AM The US Redrawn As 50 Equally Populated States
Friday February 22, 2013 @08:32AM Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online
Thursday February 21, 2013 @02:14PM USPS To Launch Line of Smart Clothing
Thursday February 21, 2013 @12:07PM White House Petition To Make Unlocking Phones Legal Passes 100,000 Signatures
Thursday February 21, 2013 @10:22AM Got a Cell Phone Booster? FCC Says You Have To Turn It Off
Thursday February 21, 2013 @09:30AM CT State Senator Wants To Ban Kids From Using Arcade Guns
Sunday February 17, 2013 @12:56PM Publisher Sues University Librarian Over His Personal Blog Posts
Sunday February 17, 2013 @12:17PM Edwin Mellen Press sues University Librarian over his personal blog posts
Sunday February 17, 2013 @04:53AM Tax Peculiarities Mean Facebook Paid No Net Taxes For 2012
Saturday February 16, 2013 @12:12PM Can Dell and HP Keep Pace With An Asia-Centric PC World?
Friday February 15, 2013 @08:51PM Congress Takes Up Online Sales Tax
Friday February 15, 2013 @04:19PM Ask Slashdot: Is the Bar Being Lowered At Universities?
Wednesday February 13, 2013 @09:59PM New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers
Wednesday February 13, 2013 @08:51PM Pentagon' Distinguished Warefare Medal: for cyber attacks and drone wars
Monday February 11, 2013 @08:54AM Should Techies Trump All Others In Immigration Reform?
Monday February 11, 2013 @06:36AM Should the Start of Chinese New Year Be a Federal Holiday?
Sunday February 10, 2013 @04:27PM Corn Shortage Hampers US Ethanol Production
Sunday February 10, 2013 @09:42AM Rapiscan's Backscatter Machines May End Up In US Federal Buildings
Saturday February 09, 2013 @12:24PM Rapiscan's "backscatter" nude-o-scopes coming to federal buildings
Friday February 08, 2013 @08:54PM DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS
Wednesday February 06, 2013 @02:00PM US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery
Tuesday February 05, 2013 @11:39AM Leaked: Obama's Rules For Assassinating American Citizens
Monday February 04, 2013 @01:42PM FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi
Monday February 04, 2013 @10:14AM The Top Paying Tech Companies For Interns
Friday February 01, 2013 @09:18PM Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul
Friday February 01, 2013 @08:43AM EU Citizens Warned Not To Use US Cloud Services Over Spying Fears
Thursday January 31, 2013 @06:16PM EU citizens warned not to use US Cloud services over Spying fears
Wednesday January 30, 2013 @03:04PM Senate Proposes Dramatic Increase in H-1B Visa
Tuesday January 29, 2013 @01:56PM DARPA Seeks To Secure Data With Electronics That Dissolve On Command
Tuesday January 29, 2013 @01:08PM Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami
Tuesday January 29, 2013 @08:59AM WTO Approves Suspension of US Copyright in Antigua
Tuesday January 29, 2013 @12:47AM Julian Assange Pans WikiLeaks Movie
Tuesday January 29, 2013 @12:46AM Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA
Monday January 28, 2013 @08:09PM WTO Approves Antigua's Pirate Website
Monday January 28, 2013 @06:57AM What You Need To Know About Phone Unlocking
Monday January 28, 2013 @12:18AM Aaron Swartz Case: Deja Vu All Over Again For MIT
Saturday January 26, 2013 @05:23PM Anonymous Warhead Targets US Sentencing Commission
Saturday January 26, 2013 @03:54PM Unemployed Chinese Graduates Say No Thanks To Factory Jobs
Saturday January 26, 2013 @02:58AM Unemployed Chinese Graduates Say No Thanks to Factory Jobs
Friday January 25, 2013 @07:25PM Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000
Friday January 25, 2013 @01:08PM California's Surreal Retroactive Tax On Tech Startup Investors
Friday January 25, 2013 @08:28AM Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site
Thursday January 24, 2013 @12:35PM North Korea Announces 3rd Nuclear Test, Anti-US Aims
Wednesday January 23, 2013 @11:21AM Tech Firms Keep Piles of 'Foreign Cash' In US
Monday January 21, 2013 @07:14PM US Activists Oppose US Govt Calls To Weaken EU Privacy Rules
Friday January 18, 2013 @08:25PM TSA Terminates Its Contract With Maker of Full-Body Scanner
Thursday January 17, 2013 @10:39AM Canadian Court Rejects US Demand For Full Access To Megaupload Servers
Thursday January 17, 2013 @10:09AM DHS Steps In As Regulator for Medical Device Security
Thursday January 17, 2013 @09:04AM FBI Responds To ACLU GPS Tracking Complaint
Tuesday January 15, 2013 @01:46PM 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws
Tuesday January 15, 2013 @01:18PM Getting Better Transparency From Oil Refineries
Sunday January 13, 2013 @09:09AM US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide
Friday January 11, 2013 @08:21AM Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest
Tuesday January 08, 2013 @02:06PM Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House
Sunday January 06, 2013 @09:31AM Senate Candidate Promises Digital Democracy
Friday January 04, 2013 @09:28PM TSA "secured" MetroDome during Vikings vs. Green Bay Packers Football Game
Friday January 04, 2013 @08:02PM Scary Toothbrush Prompts Shutdown of World's Busiest Airport
Friday January 04, 2013 @07:05PM Scary Toothbrush prompts shutdown of world's busiest airport
Friday January 04, 2013 @08:45AM Connecticut Group Wants Your Violent Videogames — To Destroy Them
Friday January 04, 2013 @05:00AM Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles
Thursday January 03, 2013 @03:17PM Google, FTC Settle Antitrust Case
Thursday January 03, 2013 @08:39AM Connecticut Group to Destroy Violent Videogames in Wake of Sandy Hook Shooting
Wednesday January 02, 2013 @07:34PM USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication
Monday December 31, 2012 @11:54PM The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal
Saturday December 29, 2012 @11:44AM White House Petition to Support FOSS in Schools
Saturday December 29, 2012 @10:15AM Judge Grants Defendant's Motion To Explore Alleged Fraud By Prenda Law
Friday December 28, 2012 @08:01PM Drone Photos Lead to Indictment For Texas Polluters
Friday December 28, 2012 @03:32PM Drone photos polluters punished
Tuesday December 25, 2012 @01:16PM New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map
Tuesday December 25, 2012 @12:59PM NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter
Monday December 24, 2012 @04:08PM China Set To Surpass US In R&D Spending In 10 Years
Sunday December 23, 2012 @05:19PM NSA Targeting Domestic Computer Systems
Friday December 21, 2012 @08:12PM USAF Taps ESPN To Compile Drone "Highlight" Video
Friday December 21, 2012 @08:26AM Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener
Friday December 21, 2012 @07:34AM Using Technology To Make Guns Safer
Thursday December 20, 2012 @02:55PM Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener
Thursday December 20, 2012 @11:37AM Training Under Way For New Nuclear Plant Operators In S. Carolina
Wednesday December 19, 2012 @03:39AM TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners

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