The NSA and its partners developed a top-secret method to infect smartphones with spyware through Google and Samsung app servers, Snowden documents reveal. Source: NSA >>>

Captured drones appear to be further evidence of Russia’s involvement in Ukraine conflict Source: Ukrainian forces says two drones shot down over war zone are >>>

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Letter signed by more than 250 companies demands greater transparency and says ‘dangerously vague’ language would criminalise whistleblowers Source: Hundreds of tech companies line up >>>

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Last night, protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV for the first time. These test collisions were to set up systems >>>

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