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There's been considerable debate over the existence of Gliese 581g ever since the discovery of the "Goldilocks" planet was first reported nearly two years ago, but new research claims to provide additional evidence that the potentially habitable "super-Earth" really is out there. The prospect of the...

United States National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander has urged hackers to contribute to securing cyberspace. Speaking at the DEFCON 2012 security conference, Alexander said the hacker community and the U.S. government cybercommunity share some core values. "At DEFCON 20, Gen. Alexander di...

Google has not deleted the sensitive data it collected from private wireless networks in 2010, according to a recent report. Earlier, the company had promised regulators it would dispose of the information. The search engine giant originally collected the data while it was mapping areas for its Stre...

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Siemens Patch Aims to Thwart Stuxnet Offspring

Siemens, which made the industrial controllers targeted by the Stuxnet cyberweapon, announced last week that it was releasing some patches aimed at foiling attacks on its hardware similar to those mounted by the now-famous worm. Previous versions of the controllers used in SCADA systems allowed DLL ...

The details of the recent Colorado massacre are bothering me this week. What bothers me the most is that both political parties seem to take an event like this and use it to further an agenda. The right wants everyone to get armed, and the left wants to take guns away from law-abiding citizens. The ...

On Facebook's earnings call Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg seemed to deny that the company would be developing its own branded smartphone, presumably an effort to put to rest growing speculation -- mostly attributed to unnamed sources -- about a Facebook phone under development at HTC. Building a smartph...

Ouya, the recently unveiled video game system, on Friday announced a content deal that will make OnLive's cloud gaming service available on the console when it launches next year. Ouya has certainly gotten its kickstart. In fact, the company, which has been looking to Kickstarter to raise funding fo...

Twitter is back in action after a data center failure caused worldwide outages for many of its users Thursday. Starting around 8:30 a.m. PT, Twitter users who tried to access the site were greeted with a partially coded message that read, "Twitter is currently down." Users reported outages worldwide...

Google has launched its high-speed Internet Google Fiber network in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Mo. Residents of the two cities who preregister for a $10 fee have six weeks to rally their neighbors to sign up in order to achieve a goal pre-set by Google. Residents of communities that don't...

Security has been a top concern of the Olympic Games ever since that fateful day in September of 1972 when terrorists killed members of the Israeli Olympics team. Since then, each Olympics has only increased its level of security consideration. The more recent games have had to focus as much on cyb...

The Google Talk chat application went down some time on Wednesday night, provoking many users to anger. Some said they had switched temporarily to Skype or Twitter. Google posted updates regularly on its App Status website, and began restoring service on a rolling basis. The problem apparently also...

Speaking at the Casual Connect game conference in Seattle this week, Gabe Newell, chief executive and cofounder of Valve, had some harsh words about Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system. The award-winning game publisher is also the creator of the Steam digital distribution service for gam...

Devs can now get their hands on the fastest, priciest tablet so far that runs the Android OS. Based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, the Mobile Development Platform/Tablet can be pre-ordered from Bsquare for $1,300. It is the first MDP in a tablet form factor, and the first to feature the ...

A cruel fact of life is that mobile operators have a vested interest in building out their networks in areas where there are customers, not where there aren't any. Those towers are expensive, and they want a return. Unfortunately, that means those of us who enjoy puttering around the vast open space...

Iran has reportedly threatened the United States with a "teeth-breaking" response if cyberattacks against it continue. Last month, Iran claimed to have discovered and foiled plans by the U.S., Israel and the UK to launch what it claimed was a massive cyberstrike against its nuclear facilities. Furth...


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