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Self Destructing Electronics: Mission Impossible or Not?
Fans of the Mission Impossible series will be no stranger to the concept of self-destructing messages, but real-life spies, probably not so much. Meanwhile DARPA, the research wing of the US military, would probably prefer to avoid the Hollywood alternative of disposing of redundant electrical devices by ingesting them. There is a problem to be ...
Google Lifts The Lid On How It Handles Government Data Requests
After receiving a barrage of feedback following its most recent Transparency Report, Google has just updated the original to add a new section that details how it goes about handling each government request for data that it receives. The addendum ‘Legal Process’ is an attempt to answer dozens of questions that Google users have over ...
Pentagon Bolsters Cybersecurity Force To Head Off Foreign Threats
In the wake of the recent Anonymous hack of the US Sentencing Commission’s website in support of Aaron Swartz, Pentagon chiefs have announced timely plans to beef up cybersecurity, assigning thousands of new personnel to the vital task of defending US computer networks. The move comes just days after the latest embarrassment to US cyber ...
EMC Headhunts Vic Bhagat To Lead Big Data Transformation
There’s been a bit of a shakeup over at EMC this morning, with the storage giant announcing the appointment of the vastly experienced Vic Bhagat as its new CIO. The company put out a press release this morning shedding some light on its boardroom shuffle, revealing that Bhagat, who also assumes the role of Executive ...
Guess What? Antigua’s Upcoming “Piracy” Website will be 100% Legal
The threat has actually been hovering over the US for a number of years, yet now it finally looks as if Antigua is going ahead with the planned launch of its so-called “piracy website” that will allow anyone to download US-made movies, songs, games and software without paying copyright holders. It might sound like a ...
BitTorrent Launches “Sync” to Fight Mega
Hot on the heels of Kim Dotcom’s launch of Mega, Bittorrent has just kicked open the doors to its own digital locker service, to be known as Sync. Sync is currently available as a pre-Alpha release, and a first look suggests that it aims to be the simplest possible way to “automatically share files between ...
Bikini-Clad Debt Collectors Plot Facebook “Honey Traps”
If it just so happens that you owe someone money, and suddenly a hot, bikini-clad chick tries to add you on Facebook, you might just want to think twice before you go accepting your new ‘friend’. There’s a very good chance it could well be a trap. Bloomberg reports that debt collectors have stepped up ...
Enter The World of “Dark Data”
The name suggests something sinister, like the ultimate unstable force that could destroy the world at any moment, but Dark Data can actually do an untold amount of good if it can only be tapped into. Just think – every enterprise collects Dark Data – that hoard of unanalyzed information which sits, and sits, and ...
Coke Enables Social Sabotage with Coke Chase
Super Bowl Sunday is coming up and there’s as much anticipation for the commercials as there is for the game – almost. For big brands though, the competition for viewers is intense. So intense in fact, that Coke has decided to make an all out war, with a ‘race’ to see what stereotype wins their ...
Big Data Fuels F1 Success For Team Sauber
When we talk about Big Data we tend to think about media & entertainment, big business and insights, and perhaps even big brother. But few people realize that Big Data is making a far bigger impact in places that we don’t usually consider. Take Formula 1 racing for example, a multibillion-dollar global sport, where cars ...