What the Enron Emails Say About Us
Scholars have spent years analyzing the corporation’s vast digital archive. What have they discovered?

July 18, 2017 at 07:06AM
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A Myspace Security Flaw Let Anyone Take Over Any Account
Anyone could have taken over any Myspace account if they had the account owner’s listed name, username, and date of birth. Whoops!

July 18, 2017 at 12:38AM
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Sad Security Robot Drowns Itself In DC Office Building
​According to tech leaders from Elon Musk to Bill Gates, the robots are coming for our jobs. Luckily for us, they might not be smart enough to get past your office lobby.

July 17, 2017 at 03:19PM
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Even your manager thinks it’s OK to use emoji at work
According to a 2014 survey by mobile messaging app Cotap, 76 percent of American workers have used emoji in a professional setting. A majority of them — 64 percent — used happy face emoji.

July 17, 2017 at 02:17PM
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IBM’s Plan To Encrypt Unthinkable Amounts of Sensitive Data
IBM says it has a way to encrypt every level of a network, from applications to local databases and cloud services, thanks to a new mainframe that can power 12 billion encrypted transactions per day.

July 17, 2017 at 10:04AM
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Please Prove You’re Not a Robot
Posing as humans, today’s bots are different from what science fiction writers imagined, but they represent a serious threat to democracy.

July 17, 2017 at 06:09AM
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The Blind Gamer Playing ‘Street Fighter 5’ at a Pro Level
“I think gaming is the thing that kept me going when I went blind.”

July 16, 2017 at 07:52PM
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When Companies Get Hacked, Should They Be Allowed to Hack Back?
It’s an idea that resurfaces after high-profile cyberattacks, despite most firms’ lack of enthusiasm about it.

July 16, 2017 at 05:33PM
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Robots and AI are going to make social inequality even worse, says new report
Rich people are going to find it easier to adapt to automation.

July 16, 2017 at 02:05PM
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SoundCloud was great, until it wasn’t
The streaming service is reportedly in its final days. Perhaps it’s for the best.

July 16, 2017 at 11:52AM
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