wjcofkc writes “In an ironic but welcome twist, the author of the Patriot Act, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), is introducing the USA FREEDOM Act, a bill specifically aimed at countering the portions of the Patriot Act that were interpreted to let the NSA collect telephone metadata in bulk. The congressman has been a vocal opponent…

A swell in diesel cars offered in the U.S. means more high-mileage options for buyers. Here are four diesel-engined cars recently reviewed by CNET…….

WordPress version 3.6 suffers from multiple URL redirection restriction bypass vulnerabilities…….

WordPress Cart66 plugin version 1.5.1.14 suffers from cross site request forgery and cross site scripting vulnerabilities…….

The CIA suspected that then-employee Edward Snowden wanted to break into classified computer files, a new report says. But that didn’t prevent Snowden from moving on to a job as a contractor with the NSA…….

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An anonymous reader writes “According to Wired, ‘Today’s big data is noisy, unstructured, and dynamic rather than static. It may also be corrupted or incomplete. … researchers need new mathematical tools in order to glean useful information from the data sets. “Either you need a more sophisticated way to translate it into vectors, or you…

A group of Australian Legend of Zelda fans have taken to the bush for a glorious reinterpretation of the Lost Woods…….