Mike Wheatley
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Big Brother’s Big Data: Just Go With The Flow
There are plenty of reasons to be paranoid about the government’s use of big data and how authorities could one day use it to control every aspect of our lives. This is the ultimate fear of many (usually the same people who believe in Armageddon and conspiracy theories), but in general, most of the stories ...
Watch What You Think: Scientists Can Now Hack Into Your Brain
There’s nothing quite like the privacy of our own minds. It’s the most secure place we can ever go to, an intimate place where we can store our darkest secrets and safely think even the most unspeakable of thoughts. Of course, we don’t always like our thoughts – indeed, sometimes we’re even ashamed of them, ...
Twitter Tests Out Targeted Tweets
If you’re a regular twitterer, you’ll know all about the data that it collects on you as you follow various interests through the microblogging platform. Now, the time has come to put that data to use – and advertisers are beside themselves with excitement at the prospect of it. It seems like years ago that ...
Baidu’s Bigger, Better And Faster Mobile Experience
China’s got a well deserved reputation for being one of the biggest copycats of them all, but that doesn’t mean it lacks the capability to innovate. As Baidu has shown recently with a number of new product announcements at his year’s Baidu World, China’s more than capable of not just adopting western ideas, but enhancing ...
Judgement Day Beckons: Scientists Grow ‘Light-Activated’ Muscle Tissue For Robots
Robots are pretty advanced these days, but could the kind of futuristic, life-like androids that we see in Terminator and Blade Runner one day become a reality? Up until now, the idea of creating convincingly ‘human’ robots such as Arnie Schwarzenegger’s Terminator was thought to be the stuff of fantasy. However, recent developments at the ...
Paranoid Russians Develop Home-Grown Tablet Device Powered By RoMos
Fed up with having Americans spying on their every move, the Russians are now going the way of North Korea, developing their very own tablet device that boasts a high level of encryption, an Android-like OS, and a home-grown global position system. The device, which was unveiled yesterday at the IFA in Berlin, was developed ...
Bahraini Government Using “Stealth” Malware To Spy On Dissidents
A Google engineer and a computer science student believe that authoritarian government regimes are using special surveillance software designed for criminal investigations to illegally monitor political activists. The New York Times reports that FinSpy, an elusive espionage tool designed to evade computer security software, is supposedly only sold to governments on the understanding that it’s ...
Facebook To Let Advertisers Hunt You Down Using Your Email and Phone No.
Facebook has just sanctioned the stalking of every single one of its users by companies that wish to bombard them with advertisements and special offers. Reports suggest that the social media giant is tweaking its ad targeting methods, and will soon let paying companies use personal information such as emails and phone numbers to identify ...
Oracle Belatedly Issues Java Security Fix, But Is It Enough?
Oracle has just issued an urgent fix to seal a dangerous security flaw within its Java software that’s left thousands of computers wide open to malicious attacks from hackers. The update follows revelations that Oracle actually knew about the vulnerability several months before it was first reported in the media. VentureBeat explained that the patch ...
Big Data Vendors Collaborate On Big Security Issues
Big data has presented us with some pretty unique challenges. Storage and analysis are the ones we hear about most frequently, but equally important is the need to tackle problems related to the security and privacy of the data that companies collect. To address these needs, Cloud Security Alliance and Fujitsu Labs, two of the ...
