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The research in G. Giguère and B.C. Love, "Limits in decision making arise from limits in memory retrieval," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences v. 19 (2013) has applications in training airport baggage screeners. Abstract: Some decisions, such as predicting the winner of a baseball game, are challenging in part because outcomes are probabilistic. When making such decisions, one...

Interesting report from the From the Pew Internet and American Life Project: Teens are sharing more information about themselves on their social media profiles than they did when we last surveyed in 2006: 91% post a photo of themselves, up from 79% in 2006. 71% post their school name, up from 49%. 71% post the city or town where they...

LinuxSecurity.com: As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange approaches the one-year anniversary of his confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a report released Wednesday reveals that donations to the secret-spilling site have dwindled to a trickle.

LinuxSecurity.com: The Samsung Galaxy S4 has been commercially available for about a month. In this time, 10 million devices have been sold - and at least one hack has been discovered. Security expert Dan Rosenberg identified a trivial design flaw in Samsung's secure bootloader concept that allows arbitrary operating systems to be booted.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

The Chinese hackers who broke into Google servers in 2009 and 2010 were able to gain access to Google's database of surveillance orders from the US government.......

After reports emerged earlier this year accusing China of launching persistent cyberattacks against US companies and government agencies, activity from the People's Liberation Army against US sites grew quiet for several months.......

An attack that exploits a known flaw in Microsoft Office has been detected on machines around the world.......

Italian police have arrested four people believed to be active members of the Anonymous hacking collective.......

In an attempt to block a website believed to be associated with a financial scam, the Australian government shut down 1,200 other sites that were unrelated to the targeted site expect for the fact that they were hosted on the same IP address.......

Federal contractors are asking the US General Services Administration (GSA) to temporarily suspend cybersecurity rulemaking until the government issues national guidelines later this year.......

David Strickland, Administrator of the US's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that he intends to look carefully at what security requirements need to be in place for automated cars and proposed vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) networks.......

Malware that targets Mac OS X has been found on the laptop of an Angolan human rights activist attending the Oslo Freedom Forum.......

A Romanian man currently serving a five-year prison sentence for his role in an ATM skimming operation, has developed a device that he says can prevent ATMs from succumbing to skimming devices.......

The US Defense Department has approved Apple iOS for use to connect to DOD networks.......