The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Next Generation Content Processing: Tail Fins and Big Data Posted: 18 Aug 2013 03:11 PM PDT Note: I wrote this for Homeland Security Today. It will appear when the site works out its production problems. As background, check out “The Defense Department Thinks Troves of Personal Data Pose a National Security Threat.” If the Big …
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The NSA is Commandeering the Internet It turns out that the NSA’s domestic and world-wide surveillance apparatus is even more extensive than we thought. Bluntly: The government has commandeered the Internet. Most of the largest Internet companies provide information to the NSA, betraying their users. Some, as we’ve learned, fight and lose. Others cooperate, either …
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Open source has won, let’s look to the future Mark Hinkle My nearly 11 minute keynote at OSCON 2013 this year, felt long enough when I gave it, but in terms of what I have to say about the future of open source, it wasn’t even close. Here I expand on the lessons I’ve learned …
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New Computer Programming Language Imitates The Human Brain As we pointed out earlier this week, we’re still far from being able to replicate the awesome power of the human brain. So rather than use traditional models of computing, IBM has decided to design an entirely new computer architecture — one that’s taking inspiration from nature. …
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US Consortium Forming on Industrial Internet As many as ten companies including AT&T, Cisco Systems, GE, IBM, and Intel are working with US government representatives to form a consortium to drive the so-called Industrial Internet. Their goal is to define an architectural framework for open industry standards that would serve a broad swath of market …
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Free Software Supporter Issue 64, July 2013 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 68,680 other activists. TABLE OF CONTENTS FSF, other groups join EFF to sue NSA over unconstitutional surveillance Donate to Replicant and support free software on mobile …
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I have no connection to the below, thought it worth sharing. INNOVATION | TECHNOLOGY | POLICY SHAPING THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET Sponsored by Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET) Our next DC event offers a high-level briefing and discussion of questions of profound significance to both policymakers and corporate America. Join us on Wednesday August …
