Computers

Obama’s Internet ID Plot Being Tested in Two States

A plot by the Obama administration to impose Internet IDs on Americans is now officially being rolled out, with pilot programs for the...

Alex Newman May 16, 2014

Are “Killer Robots” in Our Future?

Selwyn Duke May 14, 2014

Will real-life Terminators soon roam modern battlefields? Killer robots don’t currently exist, but whether they should be developed and the implications of such...

Memo Reveals Clinton White House Paranoia Over Free Internet

Alex Newman April 27, 2014

A heavily redacted memo from then-President Bill Clinton’s White House, released last week as part of a vast cache of papers from the...

UN May Tax and Censor Post-U.S. Internet, Experts Warn

Alex Newman April 9, 2014

Following the Obama administration’s deeply controversial decision to cede U.S. control over key elements of the Internet’s architecture, experts and former officials are...

Facebook Facial Recognition Software Has Almost Human Accuracy

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 28, 2014

Facebook is developing facial recognition technology that has almost human accuracy. ...

NSA Creates Fake Facebook Server to Trap Targets

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 14, 2014

The latest disclosure from the Edward Snowden files reveals that the NSA pretends to be Facebook in order to trap targets. ...

RFID Implants: The Benefits vs. the Dangers

Warren Mass February 21, 2014

Frank Swain, a British freelance writer, recently wrote an essay published online by the BBC Future Science website entitled: “Why I want a...

NSA Collects “Untargeted” Texts, Controls “Unconnected” Computers

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 17, 2014

The NSA is collecting millions of text messages from innocent people and is using radio waves to control computers not connected to a...

Apple Strikes Back at NSA’s “Malicious Hackers”

Thomas R. Eddlem January 2, 2014

Apple Inc. executives have labeled leadership of the U.S. government's National Security Agency “malicious hackers” and have vowed to fight against reported NSA...

NSA Collecting “Hundreds of Millions” of E-mail, Instant Messaging Contacts

Michael Tennant October 16, 2013

The National Security Agency is collecting over 250 million e-mail address books and instant-messaging contact lists a year, many from Americans. ...

NSA Spy Center Melting Down, Burning Up Taxpayer Money

Alex Newman October 10, 2013

Opening of the highly controversial National Security Agency (NSA) data center in Utah has been delayed after major electrical problems at the facility...