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PRISM Isn’t Data Mining and Other Falsehoods in the N.S.A. “Scandal”

I can’t stand it. A few days ago, I wrote in some detail about the National Security Agency’s data-mining program in hopes of calming the hysteria that has been whipped up in the last…
PUBLISHED: June 14, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2226 words)

The Making Of A Mole

The news came on one of those July days when the air is soupy and still. It had been a busy month for the agents at the Homeland Security Investigations office near Nogales, Arizona. July is when…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: June 14, 2013
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6159 words)
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Forget lattes: Starbucks' next coffee trend might finally be the Clover

Try taking a coffee snob into Starbucks and you might have trouble; that is, unless you’re lucky enough to come across a branch with a Clover machine. The one-cup brewer – borrowing…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1584 words)

This Is How the NRA Ends

On April 17, the bill to expand background checks on gun buyers failed in the Senate, and the fatalistic shrugs in Washington were so numerous they were nearly audible. The legislation had been a…
PUBLISHED: May 28, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5192 words)
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Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”

Thanks to the XKCD comic, every password cracking word list in the world probably has correcthorsebatterystaple in it already. In March, readers followed along as Nate Anderson, Ars deputy editor and…
AUTHOR:Dan Goodin
PUBLISHED: May 28, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1045 words)

Otellini’s Striking Confession

We know Intel shunned ARM processors and played virtually no role in the smartphone revolution. But we now learn Steve Jobs asked Intel to build the iPhone microprocessor. Paul Otellini,…
PUBLISHED: May 19, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1827 words)

Tail wagging

Two months ago, Jony Ive was interviewed in the London Evening Standard. It makes for interesting reading (despite the awful title). Our industry is in the throes of an aesthetic shift. At one end of…
PUBLISHED: May 12, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1941 words)

can you be a monk and a tycoon too?

For the tech sector, a spiritual healing typically means a couple of weeks at a beachside yoga camp — paid for by the company, of course. Not for Jeremy Riney, founder of Guidebox, a service that…
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: May 8, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1660 words)

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Say it softly. Whisper it to your friends. David Allen’s Getting Things Done is NOT the best way to get things done.It’s dull, it’s difficult, it’s about as satisfying as…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1446 words)
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