White House: Small satellites bring “Moore’s Law” into space

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Oct 25, 2016
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White House: Small satellites bring “Moore’s Law” into space

Looking to bolster that notion, the White House recently revealed a number of program that it says will help drive the use of smallsats even further. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced what it called the “Harnessing the Small Satellite Revolution” initiative, which basically brings together National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Defense, the Department of Commerce, and other Federal agencies, to promote and support government and private use of small satellites for remote sensing, communications, science, and the exploration of space.  Read More

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SnapChat, Skype among worst messaging apps for not respecting users’ right to privacy

Amnesty International ranked 11 tech companies and their messaging apps. Facebook had the best privacy, while SnapChat and Skype were among the worst. Read More

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Does Southwest’s new ‘password’ commercial need to get away?

If you watched any football yesterday, chances are you saw the latest in Southwest Airlines’ “Wanna get away?” commercial series, this one featuring a military general and his comical willingness to surrender his network access password. Read More

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Cybersecurity, business and IT relationships

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Answers to ‘Is the internet broken?’ and other Dyn DDoS questions

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Physical RAM attack can root Android and possibly other devices

Researchers have devised a new way to fully compromise Android devices without exploiting any software vulnerability and instead taking advantage of a physical design weakness in RAM chips. Read More

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Bots may be trumping online polls

Poll results are supposed to be driven by opinions, but marketers, politicians and others know opinions can be driven by polls. Hence the rising use of bots to skew perceptions in favor of a product, a celebrity or, at this time of year, a candidate. Read More

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