Security

To help combat the growing concern of space debris in orbit around Earth, NASA is pondering the construction of a giant laser that could help knock potentially harmful chunks of debris from the sky.

Researchers at China's Southeast University of Nanjing have moved closer to cloaking technology by being able to alter an object's appearance on radar scopes.

Rumors are swirling that Sony, still embattled with hacker George Hotz over his release of the PS3 rootkey, is working on a "hack-proof" SKU.

The United States Navy's Office of Naval Research fired a laser that penetrated through twenty feet of solid steel. Now they hope to have a full-fledged weapons system by 2015.

The United States Department of Defense has pledged $500 Million to research new ways to defend themselves from cyber attacks.

The Sunday New York Times' thrilling coverage of the uncovering of the Stuxnet worm prompts questions that complicate images of the coming Internet of Things.

Slavoj �i�ek says that Wikileaks is hated not because of the secrets it has revealed, but because it exposed the cynicism of a system that has long stopped believing in the values it imagines itself to uphold. It's a problem not only for diplomacy and governance, but for the eroding distinction between public and private life.

Obsolescing 2G networks furnish security loopholes in mobile networks, which malicious hackers may find easy to exploit.

In 2010, the Electronic Frontier Foundation fought copyright monopolies, walled-garden mobile phone formats, and privacy invasion in the social media, helping keep the Internet safe�even for 8-bit nostalgia. Video after the jump.

With Julian Assange now free on bail in England, we should ask what the plight of his forsaken source has to say about the Wikileaks moment.