U.S. military researchers are working on a technology that would use wearable computing and digital imaging technologies to render troops and their gear invisible.
A campaign to reach out and touch the Iraqi people through e-mail apparently hasn't been as successful as the United States had hoped, because the Iraqi government censors all e-mail coming into the country.
New research holds promise for controlling the spread of internet viruses by reducing infected machine's ability to inflict damage.
A new great wall is being built, this time across the Internet. Constructed by frustrated systems administrators and intended only to stop spam, the wall could eventually cut off much of the e-mail communications between the East and the West. One system administrator notes that "Europe and the U.S. are closing the doors fast on China's IP space, and at the rate this is happening the problem is going to almost certainly go diplomatic within months."
In an experiment that sounds like a science-fiction film plot but is actually as close to real life as artificial intelligence can get, several dozen "predator" and "prey" robots will be released next month into a prepared habitat at the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in the north of England.
Tools used to detect computer viruses and stop malicious hack attacks may not be as effective as they could be because they lack the human touch. Security experts contend that protecting computers from people-created plagues and problems requires technology based on human biology and behavior.
Some government agency workers charged with protecting critical computer systems are increasingly becoming entangled in counterproductive, time-wasting power plays, according to sources inside and outside of the agencies.
A new tool for network administrators lures and traps rampaging internet worms into a virtual 'tar pit', preventing them from scanning or infecting other computers. The tool indicates a shift in the computer security community away from purely defensive to a more offensive stance against infected computers.
Researchers have attached electrodes to a locust and attached it to a robotic cart to see if their wing motions could be used to steer the vehicle.