Computer worms are changing from an acute condition to a chronic disease
Source: Malware: The number is no longer in service | The Economist
Month: May 2012
Selling Software That Kills | TechCrunch
Imagine an authoritarian nation where everyone has a phone running a government-customized version of Android — indeed, is required to have one, because every phone is an eye and ear of the national surveillance network. … Right now, carrier bloatware and device control is just an irritation, but look just a little ways into the future, and it’s worryingly easy to envision it actually becoming a serious human rights problem … especially if Western companies keep on selling their oppression technology to all comers.
New Normal: Majority Of Unemployed Attended College | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis – IBD
For the first time in history, the number of jobless workers age 25 and up who have attended some college now exceeds the ranks of those who settled for a high school diploma or less.
Source: New Normal: Majority Of Unemployed Attended College | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis – IBD
How much of this is simply because of the rising percentage of college-educated US adults?
FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit – CNET
CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications.
Source: FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit – CNET
The New Economics of Happiness – The Atlantic
Some awesome new findings — including a report on the happiest countries on the planet — — suggest that developing a theory of “happynomics” is harder than you might think