Collaborate Disseminate
Leaked data from the capital’s health insurance broker exposes sensitive data belonging to the city’s powerbrokers.
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The myth that goldfish have only a three-second memory might be giving us an unfair view of their mental capabilities. A new study has shown that some fish can recognize themselves in a photograph, meaning they join a pretty exclusive club of animals k… Continue reading Fish can recognize themselves in a photo, says new study
A compelling new study published in JAMA Network Open suggests there may be some cognitive benefits associated with playing video games. The research looked at around 2,000 children and found those that regularly play video games performed better on so… Continue reading Children may get a cognitive boost from playing video games
A compelling new study published in JAMA Network Open suggests there may be some cognitive benefits associated with playing video games. The research looked at around 2,000 children and found those that regularly play video games performed better on so… Continue reading Children may get a cognitive boost from playing video games
The new strategy focuses on improving the State Department’s intelligence bureau’s cybersecurity so that it can better protect the top secret information it collects.
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Screen time of any kind is generally considered to be a negative influence on a child’s development but a new study from a team of European researchers makes a strikingly different case, presenting evidence that playing video games may actually boost a… Continue reading Could video games be making kids smarter? A new study says yes
Sen. Mark Warner discussed American intelligence successes and information warfare at a Washington think tank Monday.
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Some data belonging to Americans was swept up in a secret CIA mass surveillance program that operated under atypical legal authority for such an operation, according to a letter released Thursday night by two Democratic members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The unnamed program operates “entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection, and without any of the judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight” that otherwise would apply, according to the letter from Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. The senators said the “secret bulk collection program” was authorized under presidential Executive Order 12333 from the early 1980s, which covers some activities of U.S. intelligence agencies. Many of the intelligence community’s surveillance programs are covered under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which involves a special court that secretly reviews requests for spying. The information released by the senators does not […]
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Amy Zegart has a new book: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. Wired has an excerpt:
In short, data volume and accessibility are revolutionizing sensemaking. The intelligence playing field is leveling — and not in a good way. Intelligence collectors are everywhere, and government spy agencies are drowning in data. This is a radical new world and intelligence agencies are struggling to adapt to it. While secrets once conferred a huge advantage, today open source information increasingly does. Intelligence used to be a race for insight where great powers were the only ones with the capabilities to access secrets. Now everyone is racing for insight and the internet gives them tools to do it. Secrets still matter, but whoever can harness all this data better and faster will win…
A German activist is trying to track down a secret government intelligence agency. One of her research techniques is to mail Apple AirTags to see where they actually end up:
Wittmann says that everyone she spoke to denied being part of this intelligence agency. But what she describes as a “good indicator,” would be if she could prove that the postal address for this “federal authority” actually leads to the intelligence service’s apparent offices.
“To understand where mail ends up,” she writes (in translation), “[you can do] a lot of manual research. Or you can simply send a small device that regularly transmits its current position (a so-called AirTag) and see where it lands.”…
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