DARPA asks tech companies for cyber war ideas

The Pentagon is inviting tech companies to show how they can help the military win a cyber war.

The research agency DARPA is hosting a daylong event Monday on its upcoming “Plan X”.

The new program focuses on building solid attack strategies and tools.

DARPA says Plan X will create revolutionary technologies for cyber offensives and will help the military develop winning strategies and tactics.

Contractors will develop tools that deploy weapons and monitor battle damage in a cyber war.

DARPA plans to announce Plan X formally by the end of next month.

This story is part of Federal News Radio’s daily Cybersecurity Update. For more cybersecurity news,click here.

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A town hall spy on every corner: Pursuing smokers, stalking dog owners… 9,600 ‘missions’ of council snoopers

  • Surveillance operations exploiting controversial anti-terror laws
  • Offences such as dog fouling and dropping litter are being targetted
  • Council officers carried out ‘test purchases’ at local escort agencies
  • Hidden cameras used to catch people putting rubbish out early
  • Civil liberties campaigners say powers are being abused
  • BBC refuses to reveal how it traps licence-fee evaders
Surveillance operations: Town halls have launched an astonishing 9,600 spying missions on the public in the past three years

Town halls have launched an astonishing 9,600 spying missions on the public in the past three years.

The surveillance operations exploit anti-terror laws but many are targeting minor offences such as flouting the smoking ban, dog fouling and dropping litter.

Council officers have also gone undercover to carry out ‘test purchases’ at local escort agencies, it was revealed last night.

In other cases, tactics included obtaining phone records and trapping householders putting out rubbish early by using motion-activated cameras on lampposts and inside tin cans.

Families suspected of cheating school catchment area rules have been followed by council ‘spies’.

Civil liberties campaigners said was clear the hugely controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act was being abused.

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Darpa Has Seen the Future of Computing … And It’s Analog

By definition, a computer is a machine that processes and stores data as ones and zeroes. But the U.S. Department of Defense wants to tear up that definition and start from scratch.

Through its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the DoD is funding a new program called UPSIDE, short for Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data Exploitation. Basically, the program will investigate a brand-new way of doing computing without the digital processors that have come to define computing as we know it.

The aim is to build computer chips that are a whole lot more power-efficient than today’s processors — even if they make mistakes every now and then.

The way Darpa sees it, today’s computers — especially those used by mobile spy cameras in drones and helicopters that have to do a lot of image processing — are starting to hit a dead end. The problem isn’t processing. It’s power, says Daniel Hammerstrom, the Darpa program manager behind UPSIDE. And it’s been brewing for more than a decade.

“One of the things that’s happened in the last 10 to 15 years is that power-scaling has stopped,” he says. Moore’s law — the maxim that processing power will double every 18 months or so — continues, but battery lives just haven’t kept up. “The efficiency of computation is not increasing very rapidly,” he says.

Hammerstom, who helped build chips for Intel back in the 1980s, wants the UPSIDE chips to do computing in a whole different way. He’s looking for an alternative to straight-up boolean logic, where the voltage in a chip’s transistor represents a zero or a one. Hammerstrom wants chipmakers to build analog processors that can do probabilistic math without forcing transistors into an absolute one-or-zero state, a technique that burns energy.

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Syria crisis: Russia warns Obama against ‘violation’ of international law

Russia rebuffed President Barack Obama’s threat of unilateral action against Syria Tuesday, as officials said 2,500 refugees fled across the border into Turkey in just 24 hours – one of the highest daily refugee flows of recent weeks.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking after meeting China’s top diplomat, said Moscow and Beijing were committed to “the need to strictly adhere to the norms of international law … and not to allow their violation”.

Obama draws ‘red line’ for Syria on chemical and biological weapons

Obama on Monday threatened “enormous consequences” if his Syrian counterpart used chemical or biological arms or even moved them in a menacing way.

The president used some of his strongest language yet to warn Assad not to use chemical or biological weapons – after Syria acknowledged for the first time that it had such weapons and could use them if foreign countries attacked it.

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‘God is in control’: Obama gets really religious in new interview

US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama along with their daughters Malia (centre) and Sasha (back) walk out of the St John's Church back to the White House in Washington, DC
Not renowned for openly discussing his religious beliefs, President Obama has taken the opportunity in an interview with the Washington National Cathedral magazine to declare that at the end of the day, ‘God is in control.’

Used to a skeptical public doubting the strength of his Christian faith, the president reaffirmed his belief in God just as the election campaign enters its most critical months.

‘First and foremost, my Christian faith gives me a perspective and security that I don’t think I would have otherwise: that I am loved. That, at the end of the day, God is in control,’ said Mr. Obama.

With a new poll by the Pew Research Center indicating that under half of those asked could name Obama’s religion, 60 percent correctly identified Republican opponent Mitt Romney as a Mormon.

The same poll stated that 30 percent of voters interviewed did not know the president’s religion while 17 percent replied they believed their president was Muslim.

Both candidates religious views have come under difficult scrutiny over their time in public service and there is a marked difference between the ease with which former President George W. Bush spoke about his faith.

Indeed, the perception of Mr. Obama’s religious convictions have actually changed dramatically since he first ran for president in 2008.

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Parents Fear Cafeteria palm scanners will implant ‘Mark of the Beast’ on children’s hands

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A Louisiana public school’s decision to purchase palm scanners to speed up lunch lines and payments has been met with religious opposition.

Mother Mamie Sonnier said that she will not allow her children to participate in the scanner payment program, alleging that the technology would imprint the mark of the beast, or 666, on their hands.

Moss Bluff Elementary School principal Charles Caldarera says the system will reduce errors and is optional, but that wasn’t enough of an argument for Mrs Sonnier, who has taken the program to be a sign of the apocalypse.

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Cops Interrogate Family For Allowing Kids To Play Outside

Now its still a human being inside that uniform…I wonder how long it will take before it’s a life-naut or act-roid.

How long will it take for armed drones watch over your children.

 

 

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

A family has been harassed by social services and police for the egregious crime of allowing their children to play outside in another example of how the nanny state is running wild in America.

Lenore Skenazy, editor of the Free Range Kids website, was contacted by a mother in Virginia who related her story of how she was interrogated by police four times and visited by social services twice after her children were spotted playing outside unsupervised.

The mother said that despite the fact she is careful about allowing her kids to stay over at other people’s houses because of a related childhood trauma of her own, she is being harassed by authorities because she is “one of only two families that allows my children to play outside at all in our neighborhood (which is very safe).”

“Just today, I allowed all four of my children (they were all together) to go play in the field adjacent to my house. I could literally see them outside my kitchen window. My 10 year old ran home to tell my husband and I that a cop had stopped and was interrogating my oldest daughter,” the mother writes.

“No, this was not after dark, it was at 4pm on a Saturday. So my husband walked out to see what was going on, and the police officer even wrote up a report, stating that the children were left outside unsupervised.”

Although she makes her children carry cellphones and check in every 30 minutes, the mother was told by her neighbors that “it just isn’t safe anymore to allow your kids to play outside.”

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Apple becomes biggest company in U.S. history as its stock reaches $623 BILLION

Apple has become the most valuable company in American history. 

On Monday, its surging stock propelled the company’s value to $623 billion, beating the record for market capitalization set by Microsoft Corp. in the heady days of the Internet boom.

Apple’s stock has hit new highs recently because of optimism around what is believed to be the impending launch of the iPhone 5, and possibly a smaller, cheaper iPad.

Apple Inc. has been the world’s most valuable company since the end of last year.

It is now worth 53 percent more than No. 2 Exxon Mobil Corp. 

Apple’s stock hit $664.74 in midday trading before retreating slightly to $663. That was $14.98, or 2.3 percent, higher than Friday’s close. 

Microsoft’s 1999 peak was $620.58 billion, according to Standard & Poor’s. 

The comparison to Microsoft does not take inflation into account. In inflation-adjusted dollars, the software giant was worth about $850 billion on Dec. 30, 1999.
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs before his death last year. Apple today became the biggest U.S. firm in history

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The beginning of the end for Facebook? The PayPal billionaire who was its first investor sells 20 MILLION shares

  • Peter Thiel invested $500,000 in Facebook in 2004
  • Believed to have made around over $1bn from cashing in his Facebook stock since the firm went public
  • Also recently invested in firm aiming to grow steaks in the lab
Peter Thiel, one of Facebook's first investors. Today it was revealed he has sold over 20 million of his shares in the firm as its stock price plunges.

One of Facebook’s first investors has bailed out of the firm and sold 20 million shares.

PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel, one of Facebook’s earliest investors and a member of its board, was among the insiders selling stock in the social network after a lockup expired last week, it has emerged.

As one of Facebook’s initial investors, he invested $500,000 in the company in 2004.

A regulatory filing said that Thiel, a former CEO at PayPal sold about 20 million shares of Facebook through affiliates such as his Founders Fund and other firms last week.

Thiel invest in dozens of startups through Founders Fund, and also recently back a firm planing to grow steaks in the lab.

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Are oceans the future of nuclear power? Scientists move closer to extracting uranium from seawater

Extracting uranium from seawater is closer to becoming an economic reality which could guarantee the future of nuclear power, scientists said today.

The world’s oceans hold at least four billion tons of the precious metal.
But for the past four decades, the goal of mining seawater for uranium has remained a dream because of the technical difficulties and high cost.

Today, a report presented to a scientific meeting showed that fast progress is being made towards turning the oceans into a uranium reservoir.

Improvements to the extraction technology have almost halved production costs from around 560 dollars (£355) per pound of uranium to 300 dollars (£190).

Dr Robin Rogers, from the University of Alabama, told the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia: ‘Estimates indicate that the oceans are a mother lode of uranium, with far more uranium dissolved in seawater than in all the known terrestrial deposits that can be mined.

‘The difficulty has always been that the concentration is just very, very low, making the cost of extraction high.

‘But we are gaining on that challenge.’

The standard extraction technique, developed in Japan, uses mats of braided plastic fibres embedded with compounds that capture uranium atoms.

Each mat is 50 to 100 yards long and suspended 100 to 200 yards under the water.

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