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After Profits, Defense Contractor Faces the Pitfalls of Cybersecurity
— WASHINGTON — When the United Arab Emirates wanted to create its own version of the National Security Agency, it turned to Booz Allen Hamilton to replicate the world's largest and most powerful spy agency in the sands of Abu Dhabi.
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A Tablet That Doubles as a Desktop, or Vice Versa
— The big breakthrough was the iPad: a flat, thin, beautiful, nearly buttonless computer, all touch screen. But that was three years ago. — Ever since then, Apple's rivals have churned out iPad clones in different sizes. Ten inches diagonal?
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A.C.L.U. Sues to Bar ‘Dragnet’ Collection of Phone Records
— WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its “dragnet” collection of logs of domestic phone calls, contending that the once-secret program …
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How Edward J. Snowden Orchestrated a Blockbuster Story
— WASHINGTON — The source had instructed his media contacts to come to Hong Kong, visit a particular out-of-the-way corner of a certain hotel, and ask — loudly — for directions to another part of the hotel.
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Hong Kong Seen as Likely to Extradite Leaker if U.S. Asked
— HONG KONG — In choosing Hong Kong as an initial place to take refuge from the United States government, the National Security Agency contractor who has acknowledged leaking documents has selected a jurisdiction where it may be possible …
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How the U.S. Uses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly
— WASHINGTON — When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new ways to comb through the troves of phone records, e-mails and other data piling up as digital communications exploded over the past decade, they turned …
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U.S. and China, Seeking to Ease Tensions, Pledge New Model of Cooperation
— PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China said that they were building “a new model” of more cooperative relations after 40 years of diplomatic ups and downs as they wound down a second …
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.