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Two completed pilots of the more-than-US$5 billion project are being scrapped.

Name: Evan Cassidy

Anonymous first took credit for the DDOS attack that downed CIA.gov Friday, then said it was just reporting the outage, before discovering it had, actually, been behind the attack. CIA.gov is down again today, though it would be wise to wait to give credit this time.

Netflix has agreed to pay $9 million to settle a suit over its illegally long retention of customer rental records. It is now redoubling efforts to get law changed that keeps it from posting to Facebook lists of the things its customers are renting right now.

The FDA Friday said it monitored the private email accounts of nine agency whistleblowers starting in 2010 to determine whether any of them leaked confidential information to the public.

As part of an effort to get the American public involved in the search for terrorists, the FBI has distributed lists warning how a terrorist might behave in each of 25 different types of business. Some are good indicators; most are so generic anyone could be tapped as a terrorist.

Patent troll Eolas stumbles in first case as Texas jury rules patent invalid.

The former owner of two Illinois technology companies was sentenced Thursday to serve 30 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to defraud a U.S. Federal Communications Commission program to help schools and libraries in poor areas connect to the Internet, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Famous troll Eolas now says any "interaction with images inside a browser" is their patent.

Technology industry representatives -- looking to prevent an additional set of compliance requirements -- urge House subcommittee to avoid new cybersecurity regulations to shore up the nation's digital defenses.

A high-ranking federal official and aviation industry leaders called on Wednesday for rules to prevent future interference with GPS, looking beyond a proposal by would-be hybrid mobile operator LightSquared that may be doomed by broad opposition.

The FBI Tuesday reaffirmed its rule that all cloud products sold to to U.S. law enforcement agencies must comply with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Systems security requirements.