The critical “Heartbleed” bug reported earlier this week to have affected the security of most of the internet was discovered…
Year: 2014
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been quietly embedded with US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since September…
Residents of Lanzhou, northwest China, have started panic-buying bottled water after city authorities confirmed the lethal chemical compound benzene was…
Many Americans expecting to see their tax refunds in their bank accounts soon are waking up to a very different…
Fresh on the heels of a lawsuit brought against Kim Dotcom by the MPAA film industry lobby, the Megaupload founder…
Three out of four of today’s UK university graduates will be paying back their student loans well into their 50s,…
Revelations have emerged that documents have been purged from the Bureau of Land Management’s web site, BLM.gov, stating that the…
After 20 years of battling the US government for use of his family’s land, a Nevada rancher’s “one-man range war”…
An Israeli company called Stemrad has developed a body belt that protects people from the worst effects of gamma radiation.…
Autism is a difficult disorder to miss, as it is characterized by noticeably abnormal or impaired development in social interaction…
by Dan Goodin For a more detailed analysis of this catastrophic bug, see this update, which went live about 18…
As the US Navy touts the capabilities of its new, high-powered electromagnetic rail gun, the service has announced its goal…
Researchers working for the United States Navy say they are around a decade away from mastering a procedure that will…
When friends and family members gathered recently at the White House for a private celebration of Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday,…
American and British intelligence hope to take advantage of social media platforms, like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, in an effort…
By Charlene Sakoda Glen Meadow Middle School seventh grader, Ethan Chaplin, was recently suspended after, he says, he was simply…
The US Internal Revenue Service paid millions to people who turned in their friends and neighbors for tax evasion in…
Hundreds of websites of Israeli ministries and organizations came under attack by Anonymous early Monday as part of the hacktivist…