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Cisco purchase of CIA-funded company may fuel distrust abroad

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Cisco purchase of CIA-funded company may fuel distrust abroad

The CIA's non-profit venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, has been pumping millions of dollars into technology startups since its launch in 2000, meaning it's not the least bit unusual for major vendors to have acquired and assimilated one of these CIA-nurtured seedlings.

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1. TrueCrypt's abrupt demise 'puzzling, bizarre'

2. Why do satellites tumble to death?

3. What's really behind the Microsoft-Salesforce deal

4. The U.S. state of cybercrime takes another step back

5. How to avoid cyberspies on Facebook, LinkedIn

6. INSIDER Tech Pros Need to Learn the Art of Brevity

7. KnowBe4 extends free phishing simulation for NW readers

8. USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor gets digital makeover

9. Nine hot neighborhoods for tech startups

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TrueCrypt's abrupt demise 'puzzling, bizarre'

The abrupt discontinuation of the disk and file encryption freeware TrueCrypt by its secretive software developers has left many security experts stunned, some of whom say there now are no viable alternatives left in non-commercial encryption software. READ MORE

Why do satellites tumble to death?

When satellites die or malfunction they typically begin tumbling in space to a certain death. But no one seems to know why. The European Space Agency has launched a study to figure out this death tumble as part of its effort to clean up orbital debris. READ MORE

What's really behind the Microsoft-Salesforce deal

At first glance, it doesn't seem like there are many ways SalesForce.com and Microsoft should partner: They both offer competing SaaS services. But upon closer inspection, the deal that the leaders of these two companies spoke so highly of during a joint conference call on Thursday afternoon makes a lot of sense not just for these companies, but customers as well. READ MORE

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The U.S. state of cybercrime takes another step back

When it comes to cybercrime, it seems no enterprise goes unscathed. There are more breaches happening, the associated costs are rising, and business leadership grows increasingly concerned that information security remains a challenge that is out of control. Those are the headline findings of the 2014 U.S. State of Cybercrime Survey, an annual survey by CSO Magazine with help from the U.S. Secret Service, the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and PwC. READ MORE

How to avoid cyberspies on Facebook, LinkedIn

The first line of defense against a social media-related attack recently perpetrated by a suspected Iranian hacker group is to teach employees how to spot cyberspies, experts say. READ MORE

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Tech Pros Need to Learn the Art of Brevity

A communication expert -- author of the new book "Brief" -- says you'll have a bigger impact by saying less. But it requires preparation. READ MORE

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KnowBe4 extends free phishing simulation for NW readers

I wrote yesterday about KnowBe4's offer of a free phishing attack simulation for your company. The offer was to end today at midnight EST so I asked if the company would extend the opportunity for Network World readers. Voila! READ MORE

USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor gets digital makeover

Using 3D modeling technology the US National Park Service is working on the first comprehensive survey of the USS Arizona memorial in 30 years. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb READ MORE

Nine hot neighborhoods for tech startups

The Internet hasn't eliminated geography. When it comes to building a vibrant startup scene, it's all about location, location, location. READ MORE

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Hot high-tech research projects

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DARPA: Big data needs Big search, Big analytics
How you might one day most effectively negotiate the enormous amounts of data and video around the Internet was on display recently as DARPA's Information Innovation Office hosted Demo Day 2014 to highlight the agency's ongoing contributions to what it called "preserving and expanding IT superiority." Among the over 100 products on display were a couple looking to address future issues such as vastly... Read More

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DARPA wants to scrub scourge of counterfeit computer gear
Few things can mess up a highly technical system and threaten lives like a counterfeit electronic component, yet the use of such bogus gear is said to be widespread. A new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program will target these phony products and develop a tool to "verify, without disrupting or harming the system, the trustworthiness of a protected electronic component." Read More

13 cool high-tech prize competitions
The US government in 2011 or so realized that it could tap the techie conscience of the country by financially and legislatively backing good old-fashioned competition via the America Competes Act. That's the driving notion behind numerous public competitions, or challenges as they are often labeled, that have taken place since. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, X Prize and others already knew the power of the public collection having pioneered the big tech competitions with myriad competitions about everything from space gloves and shredders to spacecraft. Here's a look at some of the coolest competitions going on now and in the future. Read More

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The US Office of Naval Research this week offered a $7.5m grant to university researchers to develop robots with autonomous moral reasoning ability. Read More



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2. Gartner: Amazon runs away with IaaS cloud Magic Quadrant; Microsoft catching up

3. Hacking Windows XP to get security patches is a really bad idea

4. 10 IT security risks that small businesses can't afford to ignore

5. Juniper, Palo Alto settle long-running firewall patent lawsuits

6. Registry hack enables free Windows XP security updates until 2019

7. Outage caused by single admin mortifies cloud provider Joyent

8. A major mystery behind Microsoft's 'brain-like' speech-to-speech translator

9. 20 best iPhone/iPad games of 2014

10. Teach your router new tricks with DD-WRT or OpenWrt


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