Thanks to David Padgham (and USACM’s spiffy new blog) for pointing out this Wired story with the latest on sputtering talks to reach a compromise on the Induce Act. It appears the tech community and the entertainment industry are still far apart on consensus language for the bill — originally designed to create a new […]
Wired reports that the Senate could enable, as part of it’s National Intelligence Reform Act, work on a system “that would let government counter-terrorist investigators instantly query a massive system of interconnected commercial and government databases that hold billions of records on Americans.” The proposed network is based on the Markle Foundation Task Force’s December […]
Thanks to Tom Jones for pointing out this story in the Financial Times on the increasing attention paid to supercomputing in the wake of the Japanese Earth Simulator’s 2 year reign at the top of the Top500. Here’s a bit: Hard drive by lobbyists helps US take supercomputer lead By Simon London An almost audible […]
Thanks to Rodney Peterson of Educause for pointing this out: U.S. cybersecurity chief abruptly resigns, cites frustration By TED BRIDIS, AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The government’s cybersecurity chief has abruptly resigned after one year with the Department of Homeland Security, confiding to industry colleagues his frustration over what he considers a lack of attention […]
