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Russian Anti-Virus Firm Plans Secure Operating System to Combat Stuxnet

Photo: Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives / Flickr Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab announced Tuesday that it plans to develop a secure operating system to protect critical infrastructure systems from online attacks. Kaspersky hopes to...

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Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Bad financial algorithm leads to severe stock market disarray

A stock-trading algorithm gone awry appears to have thrown American stock markets into chaos on Wednesday, following a surge of volatile trading after the opening bell. Many of the country’s biggest companies were...

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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

The Battle Over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Continues

While the threat of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) potentially causing absolute chaos on internet and innovation may have been postponed for now, that doesn't necessarily mean that the fight to save the...

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Monday, May 14th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Feature: How the Aussie government "invented WiFi" and sued its way to $430 million

US consumers will be making a multimillion dollar donation to an Australian government agency in the near future, whether they like it or not. The great majority won't even know about it—the fee...

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Thursday, April 5th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Wi-Fi patent case results in $229M payment to Australian government

Tech vendors including Lenovo, Acer, Sony, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile will reportedly pay an Australian scientific research agency $229 million in a patent settlement over use of Wi-Fi technology. The Commonwealth Scientific and...

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Monday, April 2nd, 2012 Net News No Comments