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Feds Charge $522K for FOIA Request

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By David Kravets - Nov. 11 (News Report) - The Treasury Department is charging more than $500,000 to process a single Freedom of Information Act request, about as much as it charged to process thousands of such requests last year.

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Judge OKs Challenge to Human Gene Patents

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Nov. 03 (News Report) - A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and a research company awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast or ovarian cancer. The first-of-its-kind lawsuit

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Medical Records: Stored in the Cloud, Sold on the Open Market

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Kim Zetter - Oct. 20 (Special Report) - Obama's stimulus package includes incentives for health care providers to translate paper health records into digital ones. But some software vendors that make programs to collect and manage such records are selling them.

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Missed Kicks Make Brain See Smaller Goal Post

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Hadley Legget - Oct. 16 (Research) - Flubbing a field goal kick doesn’t just bruise your ego — new research shows it may actually change how your brain sees the goal posts.

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Rumor: Apple To Switch On Sleeping FM Radio in iPhone, iPod Touch | Gadget Lab

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Charlie Sorrel - Oct. 14 (Comment) - Rumor site 9to5Mac reports that Apple is on the cusp of releasing an FM radio application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. And get this: it will be for the current models, not for some new hardware revision. According to the rumor, Apple will awaken the

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Data-Mining Medical Records Could Predict Domestic Violence

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Frederik Joelving - Oct. 02 (Special Report) - To a busy emergency physician, a split lip or a case of poisoning is just one of those things they deal with. But to a computer mining the patient’s medical history, it could be the last diagnosis needed to decipher a pattern of domestic violence.

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How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Clive Thompson - Sep. 23 (Special Report) - ... the real-time Web behaves in the opposite fashion. It's all about "trending topics"—zOMG a plane crash!—which by their very nature generate a massive number of links and postings within minutes. And a search engine can't spend days deciding what is the most crucial site or posting; people want to know immediately.

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12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - Warning: The people's ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble.

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The Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine. It’s Still Working.

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Nicholas Thompson - Sep. 22 (Special Report) - In the 1980s, the Soviets built a Doomsday Machine — and it’s still active. I learned about it while researching my new book, The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War. It’s also the subject of a story in the current issue of WIRED.

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Save the Slums

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Stewart Brand - Sep. 22 (Interview) - People are trying desperately to get out of poverty, so there's a lot of creativity; they collaborate in ways that we've completely forgotten how to do in regular cities. And there's a transition: People come in from the countryside, enter the rickshaw economy, and work for almost nothing. But after a while, they move uptown, into the formal economy. The United Nations did extensive field research and flipped from seeing squatter cities as the world's great problem to realizing these slums are actually the world's great solution to poverty.

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Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Nicholas Thompson - Sep. 21 (Special Report) - "The Perimeter system is very, very nice," he says. "We remove unique responsibility from high politicians and the military." He looks around again. Yarynich is talking about Russia's doomsday machine. That's right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called "the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination." Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.

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The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Julian Dibbell - Sep. 21 (Special Report) - In the evening of January 15, 2008, a 31-year-old tech consultant named Gregg Housh sat down at the computer and paid a visit to one of his favorite Web sites, the message board known as 4chan . Like most of the 5.9 million people who visit the site every month, Housh was looking for a few cheap laughs. Filled with hundreds of thousands of brief, anonymous messages and crude graphics uploaded by the site?s mostly male, mostly twentysomething users, 4chan is a fountainhead of twisted, scatological, absurd, and sometimes brilliant low-brow humor. It was the source of the lolcat craze (affixing captions like "I Can Has Cheezburger?" to photos of felines), the rickrolling phenomenon (tricking people into clicking on links to Rick Astley?s ghastly ...

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A Killer App for Green Drivers

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Tony Borroz - Aug. 25 (News) - I Drive Green gives you everything you need to be a greener, safer and faster driver.

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Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Gary Wolf - Aug. 24 (Special Report) - Craigslist is old-fashioned in any number of ways. It relies on email and the telephone in an era of SMS and social networks. It sticks to traceless transactions in an industry that makes its living collecting data from every touch. And just as people who run technical companies are reaching an apex of confidence in their ability to invent new forms of community based on sharing everything, craigslist still treats social life as dangerously complex, deserving the most jaded caution.

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FBI Paid Right-Wing Blogger Charged With Threats

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Kravets - Aug. 20 (News Report) - A notorious New Jersey hate blogger was an FBI "agent provocateur," paid tens of thousands of dollars for years to spew rhetoric, his lawyers says. Now the government has turned the tables on Hal Turner, charging that his online rants amounted to an invitation to kill judges and ...

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Diebold Quietly Patches Security Flaw in Vote Counting Software

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Kim Zetter - Aug. 12 (News) - Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold, has patched a serious security weakness in its election tabulation software used in the majority of states, according to a lab that tested the new version and a federal commission that certified it.

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Freaky Sleep Paralysis: Being Awake in Your Nightmares

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Alexis Madrigal - Aug. 09 (News Report) - You wake up, but you can’t move a muscle. Lying in bed, you’re totally conscious, and you realize that strange things are happening. There’s a crushing weight on your chest that’s humanoid. And it’s evil. You’ve awakened into the dream world. This is not the conceit for a new horror movie starring a ragged middle-aged Freddie Prinze Jr., it’s a standard description of the experience of a real medical condition: sleep paralysis. It’s a strange phenomenon that seems to happen to about half the population at least once.

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10 Worst Evolutionary Designs

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Wolman - Jul. 30 (Review) - 1 Sea mammal blowhole. Any animal that spends appreciable time in the ocean should be able to extract oxygen from water via gills. Enlarging the lungs and moving a nostril to the back of the head is a poor work-around. 2 Hyena clitoris. When engorged, this "pseudopenis," which doubles as the birth canal, becomes so hard it can crush babies to death during exit. 3 Kangaroo teat. In order to nurse, the just-born joey, a frail and squishy jellybean, must clamber up Mom?s torso and into her pouch for a nipple. 4 Giraffe birth canal. Mama giraffes stand up while giving birth, so baby?s entry into the world is a 5-foot drop. Wheeee! Crack. 5 Goliath bird-eating spider exoskeleton. This giant spider can climb trees to hunt very mobile ...

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Shield Law Overturns Warrant for Student Photographer

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Brendan Seibel - Jul. 23 (News Report) - A San Francisco Superior Court recognizes journalistic entitlements of a student photojournalist who invoked shield law. The decision strengthens support for freelance photographers and journalists who want to protect their sources and notes.

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Free the Patents and Laws, Activist Tells Feds

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Ryan Singel - Jul. 23 (News Report) - What’s worse than being a government agency targeted by a gadfly who wants data to be free and is willing to plead, sue, reverse-engineer, grandstand and shame his way into freeing government data? Well, try being a government agency on the receiving end of that in an administration that has pledged allegiance to transparency and openness.

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Contact High: Lenses That Deliver Drugs

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Hadley Leggett - Jul. 22 (News Report) - A contact lens that can deliver drugs to the eye steadily for a month could make eye drops unnecessary for glaucoma patients and others.

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Why Is Obama's Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google?

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Fred Vogelstein - Jul. 21 (Special Report) - recently, Google's size and ambitions have begun to obscure its halo. Advertisers have watched nervously as the company's share of the search-advertising market has jumped to 75 percent from 50 percent over the past three years. In 2007, Google attracted a yearlong antitrust review from US and European regulators after it announced plans to acquire online ad firm DoubleClick. In 2008, the DOJ swatted down a search-ad deal Google had made with Yahoo, arguing that it "would have furthered [Google's] monopoly." The company is currently under investigation by the DOJ for its ambitious book-scanning project, which aims to make every book ever published searchable on Google. And the Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether the Apple board seats held by Google CEO Eric Schmidt and board member Arthur Levinson violate federal antitrust law.

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40 Years After Apollo 11, NASA Maps Out the Future

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Alexis Madrigal - Jul. 20 (Special Report) - Forty years ago, NASA put a man on the moon. What does the next 40 years hold for the world's premiere space agency?

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Spy Memo Author to America: No Apologies for Tapping You

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Kim Zetter - Jul. 17 (News Report) - John Yoo, the beleaguered former Justice Department official, hits back at a report slamming the memos he wrote justifying the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance programs.

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Spy Satellite Sea Ice Images Finally Made Public

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Alexis Madrigal - Jul. 17 (News Report) - Super high-resolution spy satellites have been imaging sea ice at the poles for the last decade on behalf of earth scientists. But the images has been kept from the public and nearly all scientists, too. Over the last ten years, a tiny group of

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