"The new technology, known as the Driver Alcohol Detection Systems for Safety, would use sensors that would measure blood alcohol content of the driver in two possible ways, by analysing a driver's breath or through the skin, using sophisticated touch-based sensors situated in places like steering wheels and door locks."

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"EFF has uncovered widespread violations stemming from FBI intelligence investigations from 2001 - 2008. In a report released today, EFF documents alarming trends in the Bureau’s intelligence investigation practices, suggesting that FBI intelligence investigations have compromised the civil liberties of American citizens far more frequently, and to a greater extent, than was previously assumed."

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 Think about it...

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"The iHealth Alliance, a coalition of industry stakeholders, has recently launched an electronic health record safety reporting Web site, which is called EHRevent.org."

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"Just as Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters evolved from financial news outlets to comprehensive national financial networks with information, analytics and trading platforms, a handful of health information networks will emerge with national scope to connect regional information exchanges and transactions processing platforms."

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"More than one-third of SMEs have no offsite backup and disaster recovery strategy in place, citing a lack of budget and resources as the primary reasons why it is not more of a priority, revealed the poll of 3,000 SMEs by disaster recovery company Acronis."

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Ah, using the old impression inflation scheme...tricky.  Wha?

"While fake cost-per-click rates declined in the fourth quarter, a new form of impression inflation has emerged, finds online advertising audit firm."

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Clearly we don't hear of these brave "Anonymous" entities attacking the FBI for their efforts against WikiLeaks...or do we?

"Police agencies worldwide are turning up the heat on a loosely organized group of WikiLeaks activists. On Thursday U.K. police arrested five people, and U.S. authorities said more than 40 search warants have been executed in the U.S. in connection with last month's Web-based attacks against companies that had severed ties with WikiLeaks."

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What exactly does this mean for governments trying to protect their interests when such services operate within their borders?

"Research In Motion (RIM) has said it cannot give the Indian government a means of monitoring its corporate mail service running on the firm's Blackberry handsets."

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Is Dmitry Rogozin suggesting a cyber-attack was the cause of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear facility? Hmm, I wonder...ya know, it was 1986.

"Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, says the destructive Stuxnet computer worm could have caused the control system of Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor to malfunction, leading to the release of poisonous radioactive dust into the atmosphere, as happened in Chernobyl. He is urging NATO to join Moscow in investigating the cyberattack."

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"What was originally a distance- learning phenomenon no longer is, as most of the growth is increasingly occurring in blended-learning environments, in which students learn online in an adult-supervised environment at least part of the time. As this happens, online learning has the potential to transform America’s education system by serving as the backbone of a system that offers more personalized learning approaches for all students."

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"Independent test lab AV-Test today counted its 50 millionth virus today, and reports that nearly 20 million new viruses and other malicious software were discovered in 2010."

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Fear of another Africanized honey bee experiment gone bad...Opps!

"Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into a forest in the first experiment of its kind in Asia aimed at curbing dengue fever."

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"In other words, awareness and responses to risks vary wildly across industries and risk categories. In fact, many organizations are not addressing the most serious risks they face."

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"Agriculture Department grants program will also support network connectivity and distance learning technologies."

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