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Topics include governments disrupting two major cyberattack systems, eBay facing investigations into a huge data breach, practical applications emerging for the Internet of Things, the EU's top court supporting the "right to be forgotten," police arresting malware suspects in an international cyberc...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 47; no. 7; pp. 16 - 22
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Jul2014
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Summary:Topics include governments disrupting two major cyberattack systems, eBay facing investigations into a huge data breach, practical applications emerging for the Internet of Things, the EU's top court supporting the "right to be forgotten," police arresting malware suspects in an international cybercrime crackdown, a study showing that facial-recognition algorithms are improving rapidly, MIT using lasers and telescopes to bring high-speed communications to lunar satellite, IBM experimenting with "electronic blood" to power and cool supercomputers, a researcher developing a new technique for baking robot components to make them self-assemble, and Google replacing Apple as the world's most valuable brand.