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China’s panopticon. Technology is impressive and chilling — but it’s not nearly as all-seeing as the government wants you to think.

The Chinese government is working to create a techno-authoritarian state powered by artificial intelligence and facial recognition to track and monitor its 1.4 billion citizens....

This Isn’t Your Father’s OPEC Anymore, what will it take for more energy alternatives ?

Judging from its series of consequential meetings last week in Vienna, OPEC seems to have confirmed that the rumors of its death have been greatly...

The Theft and Reuse of Advanced Offensive Cyber Weapons Pose A Growing Threat

Almost exactly one year ago, the world experienced two destructive cyberattacks in which offensive cyber tools developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) were stolen...

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OnePlus 6 Face Unlock Beat by Paper Printout

Think the OnePlus 6 face unlock feature is all the security you need to keep shady people from getting into your phone? Think again. On...

EFF and 23 Civil Liberties Organizations Demand Transparency on NSA Domestic Phone Record Surveillance

This week, 24 civil liberties organizations, including EFF and the ACLU, urged Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats to report—as required by law—statistics that could...

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Routers Are Being Hijacked By A Dangerous Stealth Malware

New analysis suggests that hundreds of thousands of routers are infected with a malicious bug that could be used by a nation-state to bring down...

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Are we building a dystopia just to have people click on ads ?

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A company that helps police track phones was reportedly hacked

A hacker has provided Motherboard with the login details for a company that buys phone location data from major telecom companies and then sells it...

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The Secure Data Act Would Stop Backdoors

A new bill introduced in Congress gets encryption right. The bipartisan Secure Data Act would stop any government agency or court order from forcing a...

China’s panopticon. Technology is impressive and chilling — but it’s not nearly as all-seeing as the government wants you to think.

This Isn’t Your Father’s OPEC Anymore, what will it take for more energy alternatives ?

The Theft and Reuse of Advanced Offensive Cyber Weapons Pose A Growing Threat

OnePlus 6 Face Unlock Beat by Paper Printout

EFF and 23 Civil Liberties Organizations Demand Transparency on NSA Domestic Phone Record Surveillance

Routers Are Being Hijacked By A Dangerous Stealth Malware

Are we building a dystopia just to have people click on ads ?

A company that helps police track phones was reportedly hacked

The Secure Data Act Would Stop Backdoors

Think again, china 2060

A series of unfortunate events, could this begin the reconciliation between Erdoğan and Gülen ?

Status of conflict in Azerbaijan as of 2020-10-09

Summer 2020 Reality update

Tensions in the CCP reach a new level.

What most people get wrong about “Planet of the humans”

ANN “This is not the onion”

Why ADVchina is wrong about depression being an issue in china.

Maddow “Gets in the robot”

Sorry Susan Glasser, There is already a word for that.

The ghost of Cristmas past might be visiting the Chinese this year.

Disabled Protesters Shut Down PG&E Headquarters over Power Outages