NSA
Study: NSA Spying Fallout Extends Beyond Cloud
U.S. National Security Agency digital surveillance programs that were previously estimated to cost U.S. cloud vendors as much as $35 billion in sales by 2016 could "far exceed" that ...Full Article
Russia Launches ARM Chip Effort To End X86 Dependence
The Russian government is reportedly preparing to say "nyet" to American-made microprocessors, planning instead to replace Intel and AMD chips with a homegrown CPU based on an alternative architecture ...Full Article
NSA Uses Wastewater To Cool Massive Datacenter
A massive National Security Agency datacenter under construction at its Fort Meade, Maryland headquarters is going a bit greener than it otherwise would by securing a huge volume of ...Full Article
Some Like IT Cold: Intelligence Agencies Push for Low-Power Exascale
Like the rest of the research world, intelligence agencies are facing some difficult challenges when it comes to fielding the next generation of supercomputers. To help usher in a ...Full Article
The Environmental Cost of Data Snooping
While much has been made of the privacy implications of the NSA's data profiling project, PRISM, there are also ecological impacts to consider.Full Article
