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Shark-like “Invictus” is Bell’s bid for Army’s future attack-recon aircraft

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Enlarge / It’s a bird! It’s a shark! It’s Invictus, Bell’s proposed Army scout helicopter. Bell-Textron Bell Textron has unveiled the design for the company’s entrant into the US Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program: a single-rotor helicopter called the Bell 360 Invictus. The shark-like design, which uses rotor technology developed for the Bell […]

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The broken record: Why Barr’s call against end-to-end encryption is nuts

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Enlarge / The US, UK, and Australia want Facebook to hold off on end-to-end encrypting Messenger until they have a way to inject themselves into the conversation. picture alliance / Getty Images Here we go again. US Attorney General William Barr is leading a charge to press Facebook and other Internet services to terminate end-to-end

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US, UK and Australia want Facebook build a back door into messaging apps

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The governments of the U.S., the U.K. and Australia want Facebook Inc. to allow a back door into the company’s messaging apps citing safety concerns, it was revealed Thursday. In an open letter, U.K. home secretary Priti Patel, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, acting U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan and Australian Minister for Home

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Feds say Boeing 737 needs to be better designed for humans

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The two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and led to what is, so far, a six-month grounding of the jet, stemmed in part from Boeing’s failure to accurately anticipate how pilots would respond to a malfunctioning feature that pointed the jets toward the ground. That’s the key finding from a report the National

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Nonprofit fights TV networks in court to keep free TV service alive

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Getty Images | Jacobo Zanella A nonprofit organization that provides free online access to broadcast TV stations has accused TV networks of colluding to limit access to those channels. The nonprofit that runs Locast, the free TV service, made the allegations in an answer to a lawsuit filed by ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. The

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Russian national confesses to biggest bank hack in US history

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A Russian national has admitted to carrying out the largest-known computer hack on a US bank. His 2014 breach of JPMorgan Chase generated hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit revenue and stole the data of more than 80 million JPMorgan clients. Andrei Tyurin, 35, whose last name is also spelled Tiurin, also pleaded guilty

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Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps in ongoing privacy investigation

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Facebook—the social media company that has been under intense public criticism for not adequately safeguarding the personal information of its 2 billion users—has suspended tens of thousands of apps for a variety of violations, including improperly sharing private data. In a post published on Friday, Facebook VP of Product Partnerships Ime Archibong said the move

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Millions of Americans’ medical images and data are available on the Internet

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Enlarge / Dislocated cervical vertebrae (traumatic lesion of cervical vertebrae C1-C2). X-ray in profile. (Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) BSIP | GettyImages ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Medical images and health data belonging to

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Missiles and drones that hit Saudi oil fields: Made in Iran, but fired by whom?

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Enlarge / Smoke billows from Saudi Aramco’s oil processing plants in Abqaiq and Khurais, Saudi Arabia, after attacks on September 14—attacks that used drones and possibly cruise missiles built in Iran. The US government has stopped short of officially blaming Iran for launching drones and cruise missiles against Saudi Arabian oil production facilities. But Secretary

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