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Search engines and Islamic terrorism

  Google will point Web searches toward anti-radicalization Web sites after a study shows more clearly than before  the role of the search engine, rather than social media, in drawing people to extremist material on the Web. The study is one of the first to...

Experts had warned Democrats about cybersecurity gaps

  Bloomberg reported July 27  that experts had warned the Democratic National Committee  last fall that its computer network was open to attacks by state-sponsored and other hackers but it didn’t follow the  cyberexperts' security advice. The revelation is...

Risk managers worry about cybersecurity in self-driving cars

  Bloomberg reports that cybersecurity "is the biggest concern for companies evaluating risk in the nascent self-driving vehicle industry, according to a survey conducted by Munich Re.'' The  reinsurer found that "55 percent of corporate risk managers surveyed...

Preparations begin for Japanese emperor’s abdication

  Emperor Akihito. The Japanese government has begun work to revise the law governing the imperial family system  to permit an emperor to abdicate. Emperor Akihito wants to abdicate, government sources have said. He has been treated for prostate cancer and heart...

Expert talks about U.S.-Chinese cyber issues

  Here's a Wall Street Journal interview with  cyberspace expert Tim Maurer on the future of Chinese-U.S. cybersecurity relations and Beijing's ambitions for managing the Internet. He says data-stealing is his greatest fear for the Internet: "The vast majority of...