We could be on the verge of an all-out war on artificial intelligence technologies.
The overreaction to critiques of diversity methods ramps up the culture war unnecessarily.
The Obama-era "Open Internet Order" discourages a free internet.
Flight-sharing helped fill seats on small, private trips and cut costs. But regulators stopped it.
Companies are more likely to adapt more quickly to issues.
Hobbyists freed from shackles of new FAA regulations.
Goodbye and good riddance to the Obama administration's "Open Internet Order."
By nearly eliminating their equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission, Danes now enjoy some of the best IT and telecom services on earth.
Vault 7 serves as another reminder of the inherent folly in building government-mandated backdoors into secure systems.
The idea that Twitter should be run by the federal government is silly. But perhaps the platform isn't best operated as a for-profit public corporation.
Let's focus on overturning existing government policies that undermine security.
Cryptocurrency startup Coinbase has been scrupulously compliant with government demands, until the IRS asked for millions of innocent customers' records.
The declassified CIA report comes up short.
No matter what faceless spooks assure us, it's far from clear the Russian government directed the leaks of the DNC or John Podesta emails.
Social-media platforms have not so much "disrupted" the old media gatekeepers as they have introduced a watered-down version of the same concept.
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Sources say Yahoo let government malware scan the contents of all emails sent to Yahoo accounts. And why would the feds stop with Yahoo?
The NSA opportunistically hoards and deploys powerful bugs that make everyone less secure online.
A funny thing happened on the way to a post-capitalist, crypto-anarchist utopia.
If not for Federal Aviation Administration meddling in supersonic flight innovation, we could zip around the world in a fraction of the time.
Urbit seeks to distill computing into its lightest and purest possible form, leaving the user in control of more processes than previously afforded.
The disrupters have become the disrupted in only a few short years.
The DAO is an ambitious project that's already amassed an incredible amount of funding. A lot could go wrong, but it could be revolutionary if it goes right.
Because WhatsApp is so popular, it is a prime target for government data mining-and not just in Brazil.
Can the FCC bring "choice" and "competition" to your TV? Don't count on it.
Make no mistake: the War on Crypto is not primarily about "terrorism" or "fighting crime" or "public safety" at all.
The FBI says a mysterious "outside party" has found a way to unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone without assistance from Apple.
Among other things, Apple alleges that the FBI violates its First Amendment rights by compelling company engineers to write code.
It's possible that the FBI is not primarily concerned with the particular evidence stored on the San Bernardino shooter's phone at all.
The cryptocurrency's crucial censorship-resistant property is not stewarded as cautiously as it should be by those in the Bitcoin community.
We can blame last summer's Office of Personnel Management hack on good, old-fashioned bureaucratic incompetence-not a lack of CISA-style "information sharing."
At the heart of the measure is expansion of the feds' ability to access data without a warrant.
This month saw journalists engaged in yet another failed attempt to discover the identity of Bitcoin's creator.
Inconveniently for the U.S. intelligence community, the Paris attacks had nothing to do with encrypted communications.
A series of poor proposals from the Federal Aviation Administration threatens to ground much of the commercial drone industry before it even takes flight.
The digital censors of tomorrow will control information by secretly limiting or obscuring the ways that people can access it online.
Why did the U.N. feel justified in recommending such illiberal censorship policies while providing such shoddy evidence to back their claims?
The U.S. "would go crazy if China did this to us," says Microsoft about DOJ attempt to compel email data stored overseas.
The real moral of the Ashley Madison hack? Our data is fundamentally insecure.
The question for cybersecurity-minded lawmakers should not be how to control the zero-day market but how to encourage more "white hat" trades and fewer destructive ones.
"Cyberweapons" crackdown could be used to criminalize basic software-bug testing.
The Hacking Team sold many governments-including ours-products to directly target journalists, software developers, and activists for surveillance.
The worm was designed to gather intelligence on the ongoing Iranian nuclear talks.
The War on Terror is providing plenty of rhetorical ammunition to anti-encryption officials, but they are dangerously wrong.
If unaddressed, an arbitrary protocol quirk implemented by Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could soon undermine the scalability and long-term viability of the cryptocurrency.
Information sharing just doesn't work like CISA advocates imagine.
For now humans make sub-par robots and robots make sub-par humans.
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