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California County Inching Toward Drone Deployment?
Will Alameda County become California's first local government to deploy a drone? If the decision were up to dozens of angry residents and several civil rights groups, the answer would be a resounding "No."...Obama nominates one insider, one outsider for top patent court
President Barack Obama has nominated two longtime government attorneys to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), the nation's top patent court. One of them, Raymond Chen, has been a lawyer...FCC invests $10M in new network security but leaves backdoor unlocked
In August of 2011, while in the middle of upgrading its network security monitoring, the Federal Communications Commission discovered it had already been hacked. Over the next month, the commission's IT staff and outside...Russia, in adding to new blacklist, blocks site used by dissidents
On Friday, a freedom of speech activist group reported that the Russian government has blocked access to a prominent blog-hosting service that carries many dissident voices from within the countries. Back in the fall,...Hollywood Asks Kiwi Prime Minister for Better “3 Strikes” Anti-Piracy Deal
Kiwi Prime Minister John Key has had more than his fair share of piracy-related woes in the past year. The Megaupload raids and subsequent fallout sucked him into controversy after controversy, eventually leading the...Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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