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Bradley Manning, alleged WikiLeaks leak, finally gets his court date
PFC Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army soldier who was arrested in May 2010 for passing information to WikiLeaks, has finally been given a court date. Manning’s hearing will begin December 16, 2011, at...
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UK Prime Minister is getting his own iPad app to help run the country
Leading a nation is a tough gig, but soon there may an app for that, too. British Prime Minister David Cameron, a huge iPad fan, is having a special iPad app made for his particular country-running...
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How Washington went social in 2011
Politicos have been warming to social media since the 2008 Obama campaign, and 2011 saw more online activity than ever before from U.S. government leaders. On Facebook specifically, the past year has...
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Law firm threatens to shut Twitter down for allowing terrorist groups to tweet
Israeli legal center Shurat HaDin has threatened to sue Twitter for allowing alleged terrorist groups to use the service. In a letter to Twitter, Shurat HaDin executive director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner...
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Obama calls on Congress to pass bill aimed at helping startups
President Obama photo: Dave Brenner/Flickr A day after showing his techno savvy with an appearance in a Google+ hangout, President Obama is calling on Congress to pass new legislation that would aid...
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Can big data improve national security? Obama Admin commits $200M to find out
Positing that data analysis on a grand scale can solve the nation’s most critical challenges, the Obama Administration has kicked off a big data initiative with $200 million in commitments from six...
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Google praises Twitter for efforts to crack down on Internet censorship
Following Google’s lead, Twitter today released its first Transparency Report to shed light on how often it receives takedown and user information requests — and how frequently it has complied. With...
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Kim Dotcom blames the vice president for Megaupload’s demise
Say what you will about ridiculous Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, but the way authorities went about prosecuting him was sloppy and (in part) illegal. Dotcom is understandably angry, and now he has...
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AlienVault grabs $22M to bring open-source security to government
AlienVault, based in California and Madrid, announced $22.4 million in new funding will go toward bringing open-source security to government, enterprise and education. The funding coincidentally...
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AOptix takes $42M to verify people are who they say are
A burned-out airport employee looking at a passport photo from the days when you had blue hair and 20 fewer pounds may not be the most accurate form of identity recognition, but this is currently the...
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The White House releases its first open source app on Github
No, hell has not frozen over. But the White House is definitely not doing business — or government, rather — as usual. The U.S. government has released a repository of open source code that allows...
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Tech industry to Republicans, Democrats: tech jobs are everywhere (not just...
A new report from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute revealed that tech jobs are hot, they’re getting hotter, and they’re not just in Silicon Valley … or Silicon Alley. In fact, communities in...
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Venture capitalist Tim Draper: ‘We are not the home of the free, land of the...
DETROIT — Legendary venture capitalist Tim Draper is worried about America running out of heroes. And he’s not talking about Superman or the Hulk. “We’ve gotten to be chicken,” he said today at...
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Allied Minds and the DOD: 50,000 scientists at 100 labs creating technologies...
The U.S Department of Defense spends $100 billion a year funding 50,000 scientists in 100 research labs to create innovative new technologies. Now some of those new technologies will be coming to...
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Hacker checks open government data: Do police officers have quotas for...
We’ve likely all wondered, sometimes sourly as the officer is writing us up for yet another speeding violation, whether police officers have quotas for how many traffic tickets they issue. After all,...
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You’ll never guess which country asks Google for information about users the...
Last month Google updated its Transparency Report, which provides information to the public on government requests for Google users’ data. Most of these requests, Google says, are to aid in criminal...
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UK government posts, then takes down James Bond job opening for an...
Maybe someone in the UK government has watched Skyfall too many times. Or, MI6 is having a really, really tough time recruiting Daniel Craig. Most likely, it was a spoof that someone will lose his or...
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Billionaire Ted Leonsis: How FedBid is going to save governments and...
Billionaire Ted Leonsis is a busy man. Besides running the Verizon Center and three professional sports teams, including the Washington Capitals and the Washington Wizards, he serves as a vice-chair of...
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CIA invests in mobile security company to keep transactions under wraps
In-Q-Tel, the Central Intelligence Agency’s venture capital firm, made a strategic investment and technology development agreement with Tyfone to “bring mobile security in cloud and NFC transactions...
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Los Alamos goes nuclear on Huawei switches as the Chinese equipment maker is...
Looks like Chinese telecommunications manufacturer Huawei is getting slammed again. Now it’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, the facility that is in charge of maintaining the United States’s arsenal of...
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