Remember being in grade school when a classmate’s rabble rousing would ruin it for everybody, and the teacher would hold back the class from going to recess? The other students would moan and groan and justifiably feel that punishing the entire class for one person’s misdeeds was unfair. This is [...]
The International Herald Tribune has an interesting article on the Dot Com Archive, an archive at the University of Maryland documenting “what did and didn't work during the flurry of business activity around the new technology called the Internet.” Yahoo!Tech reports that “fewer young Americans have Internet access than their [...]
On Friday, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) issued its final regulations governing national security reviews of foreign investments in U.S. businesses. These regulations formally implement amendments adopted by the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA) to the Exon-Florio Amendment to the Defense [...]
The Los Angeles Times reveals that, “[t]he John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has a message for parents worried about their children's use of the Internet: Chill out. A new study to be released today found that most teenagers steer clear of dangerous sites and use the Web only [...]
The Register reports that “[t]he European Commission has launched a consultation on how it can strengthen the European Union's response to computer attacks. The Commission is canvassing views ahead of a debate early next year about an EU-wide coordination of computer security. A statement from the Commission said that responses [...]