Security

Samsung stands accused of putting keylogging software on their retail laptops. Samsung, not surprisingly, denies this... eventually.

It's a slingshot. That fires machetes. I don't think it can be made any more clear than that.

A team of researchers at Harvard have devised that putting a thin coat of a sticky substance on the body of a car could help prevent serious damage/injury in an accident.

To help combat the growing concern of space debris in orbit around Earth, NASA is pondering the construction of a giant laser that could help knock potentially harmful chunks of debris from the sky.

Researchers at China's Southeast University of Nanjing have moved closer to cloaking technology by being able to alter an object's appearance on radar scopes.

Rumors are swirling that Sony, still embattled with hacker George Hotz over his release of the PS3 rootkey, is working on a "hack-proof" SKU.

The United States Navy's Office of Naval Research fired a laser that penetrated through twenty feet of solid steel. Now they hope to have a full-fledged weapons system by 2015.

The United States Department of Defense has pledged $500 Million to research new ways to defend themselves from cyber attacks.

The Sunday New York Times' thrilling coverage of the uncovering of the Stuxnet worm prompts questions that complicate images of the coming Internet of Things.

Slavoj �i�ek says that Wikileaks is hated not because of the secrets it has revealed, but because it exposed the cynicism of a system that has long stopped believing in the values it imagines itself to uphold. It's a problem not only for diplomacy and governance, but for the eroding distinction between public and private life.