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Cybersecurity
The CIA Didn't Trust Snowden, Even Back in 2009
Edward Snowden had a negative report placed in his CIA personnel file, but that red flag didn't keep him out of NSA's highly classified computer network.
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Navy Yard Responders Say Rescue Was Hampered by Bad Radios
Radios reportedly weren't powerful enough to reach transmitters outside the building.
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NSA Searches Some Americans' Emails for Any Mention of Foreign Suspects
Agents are reportedly combing over thousands and thousands of emails without warrants.
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Mastermind of 9/11 Attacks Designed a Vacuum Cleaner From His CIA Prison
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, captured in 2003, was allowed to spend time designing a new appliance.
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What Did Tech Companies Know About the NSA and When Did they Know It?
Tech giants have denied they were in on the surveillance plan.
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This Stem-Cell Cloning Breakthrough Is Going to Revive the Same Old Debate
Researchers in Oregon are creating perfectly matched human tissues through the process of cell cloning.
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An Air Force Unit Controlling Our Nuclear Weapons Is Filled with 'Rot'
An internal inspection at the Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota found the unit that oversees nuclear missile launches to be so woefully unprepared.
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We're One Step Closer to On-Demand Organ Transplants
Scientists say they have successfully "grown" a kidney in a laboratory environment and transplanted it back into a healthy animal.
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Half of All U.S. Rivers Are Too Polluted for Our Health
A new report by the EPA found that the majority of rivers and streams in this country can't support healthy aquatic life.
Data
New 'Cosmic Blueprint' Lets Us Look at the Earliest Days of the Universe
The new map of cosmic radiation shows us the universe at 380,000 years old.
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Is the CIA Getting Out of the Drone Business?
The White House plans to take the power to launch drone strikes away from the CIA and make the program the exclusive to the Defense Department, according to reports.
Cybersecurity
South Korean Websites Taken Down In Possible Cyberattack From North Korea
The web servers of three television networks and three major banks in South Korea were brought down.
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Obama Says Iran Is a Year Away from a Nuke
The President tried to reassure Israelis that the need for a preemptive strike against is still a long way off.
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North Korea Shuts Off Its Emergency Hotline to Seoul
The hotline was the only formal communication between Pyongyang and Seoul.
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North Korea Is Now Threatening a Preemptive Nuclear Attack
The threats come as the U.N. condemns North Korea's latest nuclear test.
IT Modernization
Pro-Assad Hackers Take Over AFP's Twitter with Syrian Propaganda Photos
The account is an odd choice for a hack, since the account has about 3,600 followers.
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Inspectors Find Major Iran Nuclear Move Ahead of Talks
The rogue state has been installing new centrifuges.
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North Korea's Nuclear Negotiating Game Has It All Backwards
The rogue state says it wants to conduct one or two more nuclear tests.
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Nuclear Negotiations with Iran Fail... Again
Herman Nackaerts of the IAEA arrived in Vienna this morning to report that no progress had been made on an agreement to inspect Iran's nuclear energy sites.
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