Cyberattack Takes Down Twitter
A denial-of-service attack took down the Twitter short messaging service on the morning of August 6. As of this writing, the Twitter status...
Science & Technology
Marines Fight Facebook, NFL Tackles Twitter
The Los Angeles Times reported on August 5 that the Defense Department is studying...
Secret Service Checks Las Vegas ATMs
PC World reported on August 3 that the U.S. Secret Service is investigating some...
Apple Says Hacked iPhones Are Dangerous
Wired reported on July 28 that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking the U.S....
Abu Dhabi Backs Space Tourism
Aabar Investments of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates agreed on July 28...
Microsoft, Yahoo Reach Long-Term Search Deal
In an effort to combat Google’s dominant market share, Microsoft and Yahoo have announced...
AT&T Did Not Censor 4chan
AT&T, on July 26, temporarily blocked its customers from accessing the img.4chan.org image-sharing website....
Regulators Searching Google
Representatives from the European Union said on July 20 that they are investigating Google’s...
Taxing Energy in the Name of Climate Change
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on June 25: “The climate-change legislation likely to win...
Remembering Apollo 11 and the Promise of the “Space Age”
As millions of Americans remember “where they were” 40 years ago when they first...
National Geographic Defends the Facts of the Apollo 11 Mission
Neil Armstrong’s famous “small step” at the moon’s Sea of Tranquility on July 20,...
Senate Confirms Bolden as NASA Administrator
A July 16 article posted to the online tech journal The Register entitled, “Former...
China: Apple iPhones But No Wi-Fi
Apple Corp., supplier of Wi-Fi-enabled iPhones, has been carrying on a war of words...
Cyber Attacks Originating With N. Korea?
Beginning over the Independence Day weekend and continuing on into this week, several federal...
China Delays Censorship Software Rule
Communist China on June 30 postponed its requirement that the controversial Green Dam Youth...
Competing for Best Censorship
Technology firms in countries with little government repression are currently competing to be the...
Satellite Spying on Americans
When the Associated Press leads a story with the headline that “Homeland security kills...
Estimate of Natural-gas Reserves Jumps 35 Percent
The Potential Gas Committee, a group of academics and industry specialists supported by the...
U.S. Nuclear Site List Leaked
Steven Aftergood, a security expert with the Federation of American Scientists, reported on June...