U.S. health care website to be fixed by end of November: White House
The White House announced Friday it was putting a private firm in charge of fixing its faulty health insurance website and set the end of November as a target date for working out all the bugs, the first indication of how long repairs may ...
Less than three months after granting asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, Russia is preparing to implement the kind of electronic surveillance that Snowden uncovered in the U.S. The Communications Ministry and the KGB's successor, the Federal Counterintelligence Service or FSB, have drafted ...
Japan has slipped from eighth to 12th place in the rankings of global information and communications technology development. And its young people aren't as network-savvy as presumed.
NSA said collecting millions of email address books, 'buddy lists' daily
The U.S. National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward ...
Keep the government out of the Redskins' name
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office should get out of the business of determining what is and isn't offensive. There is no hope of settling on a precise standard.
How I bought drugs from 'dark net' — it's just like Amazon run by cartels
Dear FBI agents, my name is Carole Cadwalladr and in February this year I was asked to investigate the so-called dark net for a feature in a newspaper. I downloaded Tor on to my computer, the anonymous browser developed by the U.S. Navy, Googled ...
NSA sought to unmask users of Net-privacy tool
On Nov. 1, 2007, the National Security Agency hosted a talk by Roger Dingledine, principal designer of one of the world's leading Internet privacy tools. It was a wary encounter, akin to mutual intelligence gathering, between a spy agency and a man who built ...
In a land whose uptight reputation is belied by its wicked ways, the Conservative-led British government is in midst of a crusade to enact some of the strictest curbs on pornography in the Western world. The campaign follows the rape and murder of two young ...
Cafe chains and hotels are adapting to the growing population of "nomad workers" using mobile devices to work outside the office. A Renoir coffee shop near Tokyo's Shinjuku Station is well known for such workers, thanks to its 20 power outlets provided specifically for those ...
A handful of tech companies are betting that smartphones will eventually serve a different role in the workplace than they do outside. The "bring your own device" trend — employers cutting IT budgets by requiring employees to use personal phones instead of company-provided devices — ...
China's Net crackdown shows fear trumps reform
China's new government is threatening jail terms for Web comments deemed defamatory. But by Beijing's definition, "defamation" could mean anything that any politically connected person doesn't want to see made public.
Japanese media declare 'dark times' are on us
Being good has never been easy. And it's not getting easier — unlike many things in this age of mass technological empowerment. If it were, presumably, there would be more good and less evil — unless evil is more attractive? The monthly Sapio has dire ...
