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Chelsea Manning says mass surveillance 'getting worse'
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
"Ten years ago, I was working in military intelligence and I could feel the power, and could see how technology is implemented," Manning, once jailed for leakin...
Fighting in the future: India wants lethal artificial intelligence weapons
May 22, 2018 (Sputnik)
With the creation of a 17-member task force, India's goals range from "establishing tactical deterrence in the region and visualizing potential transformative w...
ZTE could face fresh $1.3 bn fine, Trump says
May 22, 2018 (AFP)
ZTE could face a new fine of as much as $1.3 billion as well as a management shakeup and strict new rules, Trump told reporters at the White House, although no ...
Cambridge Analytica files for voluntary bankruptcy in US: court filing
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
The firm, whose attorney filed late Wednesday, announced early May that it would close and file for bankruptcy in Britain and the United States after failing to...
Cambridge Analytica shared data with Russia: whistleblower
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
Christopher Wylie, who leaked information on the British-based firm's hijacking of data on millions of Facebook users, told a Senate panel he believes Russian i...
Google worker rebellion against military project grows
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
About 4,000 Google employees were said to have signed a petition that began circulating about three months ago urging the internet giant to refrain from using a...
Dutch govt dropping Kaspersky software over spying fears
May 15, 2018 (AFP)
The Dutch Justice and Security ministry said in a statement late Monday the decision had been taken as a "precautionary measure" in order "to guarantee national...
Facebook shut 583 million fake accounts
May 15, 2018 (AFP)
Responding to calls for transparency after the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Facebook said those closures came on top of blocking millions of attemp...
Twitter tweak steps up fight against trolls
May 15, 2018 (AFP)
The new approach looks at behavioral patterns of users in addition to the content of the tweets, allowing Twitter to find and mute online bullies and trolls. Ev...
Black River Systems tapped for SIGINT software
May 10, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $9.3 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The contract ...
China's ZTE teeters as US ban hits operations
May 10, 2018 (AFP)
The firm's fate has added a new source of tension to trade talks between the two countries after Chinese officials raised objections to the US ban during negoti...
US charges former CIA agent with spying for China
May 09, 2018 (AFP)
Three years after he left the CIA in 2007, Jerry Chun Shing Lee took money from Chinese intelligence officers in exchange for information "relating to the natio...
Parsons awarded $164 million contract for intelligence support services
May 09, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is a five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity task order contract with a ceiling value of mo...
ZTE petitions US government to lift sanctions
May 07, 2018 (AFP)
The telecom equipment and handset maker said in a filing Sunday that it had submitted a request to the commerce department for a stay of the export ban, along w...
US military bans Huawei, ZTE phones
May 04, 2018 (AFP)
Concerns have heightened at the Pentagon about consumer electronics being used to snoop on or track service members. "Huawei and ZTE devices may pose an unaccep...
Space photons bring a new dimension to cryptography
May 04, 2018 (ESA)
Yesterday, ESA signed a contract with SES Techcom S.A. (LU) to develop QUARTZ (Quantum Cryptography Telecommunication System): a platform for quantum key distri...
China gives 'subversive' Peppa Pig the chop
May 01, 2018 (AFP)
At least 30,000 clips of "Peppa Pig", whose heroine is a playful bright pink pig, were removed from the popular Douyin video-sharing platform, while the #PeppaP...
EU, US police cripple Islamic State media mouthpieces
Apr 27, 2018 (AFP)
"With this ground-breaking operation we have punched a big hole in the capability of IS to spread propaganda online and radicalise young people in Europe," the ...
#MeToo activists use blockchain to skirt China censors
Apr 27, 2018 (AFP)
The uproar began when a student wrote an open letter this week accusing a staff member at Peking University of trying to intimidate her over a petition she laun...
Portugal joins NATO cyber-defence centre
Apr 24, 2018 (AFP)
"We are facing adversaries who target our common values in cyberspace: freedom, truth, trust," centre director Merle Maigre said at the ceremony. "To build resi...
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