In talks to ‘wind down the relationship’……

Newly declassified info details the NSA’s surveillance of US antiwar figures. Meanwhile, present-day critics of the agency speak of misuse of powers, and the NSA’s director defends his people…….

PCWorld reports that “[a] U.S. surveillance court has given the National Security Agency no limit on the number of U.S. telephone records it collects in the name of fighting terrorism, the NSA director said Thursday. The NSA intends to collect all U.S. telephone records and put them in a searchable ‘lock box’ in the interest…

Researchers from MIT and Harvard create a new form of matter and teach us all a lesson about the power of quantum friendship…….

Power Ventures and its CEO were found liable for sending 60,627 spam e-mail messages to Facebook members…….

‘Eye candy really is as bad as classical candy is for the teeth,’ writes one……

kthreadd writes “Version 3.10 of the GNOME software collection has been released. New in this release is improved support for Wayland, the upcoming X replacement. The system status menus have been consolidated into one single menu. Many of the applications in GNOME now features header bars instead of title bars, which merges the titlebar and…

15 years after Google was founded, the search giant is announcing a major update of its search engine: Hummingbird…….

The first analysis of soil dug up by the Curiosity rover has revealed new insights into the red planet’s propensity for retaining water beneath its surface…….

An anonymous reader writes “Sparkfun has published their entire catalog of over 500 open hardware designs on Upverter. Anyone can now leverage Sparkfun’s designs in their own projects by creating forks and customizing to their heart’s desire.”……