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Author of Circumference of Darkness (entitled Maximum Impact in the UK)

Inside the bad-ass world of military research

May 18, 2009 · Comments Off on Inside the bad-ass world of military research

Few science teams can match the flash and audacity of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  Last week DARPA …

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The case of the missing H-bomb

May 17, 2009 · Comments Off on The case of the missing H-bomb

I suppose the two books I’ve written (and the third that I’m working on now) are historical thrillers, in that …

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Forbes: Audit the Federal Reserve, by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

May 16, 2009 · Comments Off on Forbes: Audit the Federal Reserve, by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

The Federal Reserve’s recent and unprecedented actions in the realm of monetary policy have provoked a backlash among the American …

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1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell

May 11, 2009 · Comments Off on 1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell

from The Guardian In 1946 Observer editor David Astor lent George Orwell a remote Scottish farmhouse in which to write …

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G20 police ‘used undercover men to incite crowds’

May 10, 2009 · Comments Off on G20 police ‘used undercover men to incite crowds’

from The Guardian An MP who was involved in last month’s G20 protests in London is to call for an …

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Botnet master hits the kill switch, takes down 100,000 PCs

May 9, 2009 · Comments Off on Botnet master hits the kill switch, takes down 100,000 PCs

Those behind the Zeus botnet recently decided to press the big red button, bluescreening 100,000 computers around the globe. Security …

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Earth’s Magnetic Field Hisses Due to Distant “Chorus”

May 8, 2009 · Comments Off on Earth’s Magnetic Field Hisses Due to Distant “Chorus”

from National Geographic Thousands of miles above Earth, a cosmic chorus is filling the heavens with a mysterious, low frequency …

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A Battle to Preserve a Visionary’s Bold Failure

May 5, 2009 · Comments Off on A Battle to Preserve a Visionary’s Bold Failure

from William J. Broad at The New York Times Published: May 5, 2009 A fight is looming on Long Island …

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Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords in an hour

May 5, 2009 · Comments Off on Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords in an hour

The Torpig botnet was hijacked by the good guys for ten days earlier this year before its controllers issued an …

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Colossal spy airships get $400,000,000 reality check

April 29, 2009 · 2 Comments on Colossal spy airships get $400,000,000 reality check

From NetworkWorld.com US scientists this week got the go-ahead to build a roughly 1/3-scale model of a stratospheric airship that …

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Meet new boss, same as old boss

April 6, 2009 · Comments Off on Meet new boss, same as old boss

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that the Obama administration has now formally adopted the Bush administration’s position on NSA oversight …

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U.K. Internet records to be stored for a year

April 6, 2009 · Comments Off on U.K. Internet records to be stored for a year

From the Telegraph article, by David Barrett: A European Union directive, which Britain was instrumental in devising, comes into force …

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