Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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Killer drones and hackable weapons and easy targets for spies, oh my...
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A new report by a congressional watchdog finds that a stunning number of weapon and military communication systems are easy targets for tech-savvy adversaries.
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NSA's PRISM is a huge mess that the public somehow really doesn't care about.
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It's not just the Home Alone vibe of Skyfall that should irk viewers...
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Policy wonks are trying to wrap their minds around how to fight a war in cyberspace, but their thinking keeps defaulting to conventional warfare.
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The problem with the supposed Russian attack on an American water treatment plant isn't the false alarm, it's how Congress and the DHS reacted.
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We're still not sure about the right way to counter state-sponsored hacking and how to organize a coordinated counter-attack.
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Yes, cyber warfare is real. No, the next attack won't plunge us back into the Stone Age.
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Just because you have antivirus doesn't mean your computer is now invulnerable. Far from it in fact.
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Cyber espionage is a lot more effective than an all out attack. So why are we being told to brace for the latter rather than deal with the former?