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Facebook tracks your every move, even after logging out

(Natural News) The social media empire Facebook has unveiled some new “features” on its platform in recent days that many allege are a total and compete privacy-breaching nightmare. But one hidden feature, discovered by Nik Cubrilovic, an Australian entrepreneur and writer, that few people are aware of is the fact that Facebook now monitors your online activity, even when you are not logged in to the service.

With each new change Facebook makes, users’ privacy becomes a little less … nonexistent, if you will. The most recent “News Feed” modifications, for example, display everything you say and do on the site to all of your “friends,” and even to the public. And now, even after logging out of Facebook, permanent “cookies” track all your movements on websites that contain Facebook buttons or widgets.

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The NSA Is Building An Artificial Intelligence System That Can Read Minds

Source: businessinsider.com
The NSA is working on a computer system that can predict what people are thinking.

“Think of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the most memorable character, HAL 9000, having a conversation with David. We are essentially building this system. We are building HAL. The system can answer the question, ‘What does X think about Y?’”

These are the words of an unnamed researcher who discussed an amazing artificial intelligence system she was building at the NSA.

It sounds like something right out of science fiction — a system that can literally read thoughts like a magician.

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Pentagon hit by huge cyber theft

Source: english.aljazera.net
A top Pentagon official has admitted that a massive amount of data related to new defence technologies were stolen earlier this year.

“It was 24,000 files, which is a lot, but I don’t think it’s the largest we’ve seen,” William Lynn, the US deputy defence secretary, said on Thursday.

Lynn revealed the theft as he unveiled a new Pentagon cybersecurity strategy that designates cyberspace as an “operational domain”, alongside sea, air and land, where US forces will practice, train and prepare to defend against attacks.
Critics say Pentagon cyber strategy does not have enough bite to counter breaches in defence networks

He said the theft occurred in March and targeted files at a defence contractor developing weapons systems and defence equipment.

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128 feared dead in Russian river boat accident

Source: msnbc.msn.com
Russia said there was little hope of finding any more people alive on
Monday after an overloaded tourist boat sank in the Volga River, killing
as many as 128 people in Russia’s worst river accident in three
decades.

Eighty people were rescued on Sunday after the Bulgaria, a
double-decker river cruiser built in 1955, sank 2 miles from shore in a
broad stretch of the river in Tatarstan.

Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Dmitry
Medvedev that there was little hope of finding more survivors as divers
brought up dozens of bodies from the vessel.

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