President Obama has revived cybersecurity legislation that has been stalled over the past few years after the recent hack of Sony and the US Central Command’s Twitter account. The most interesting part of the proposal, which Obama is working on with Republicans, is to increase sharing information on cyber threats from the private sector in a collaboration between government and …

Cartoon images of Muhammad from Charlie Hebdo have inspired deadly retaliation by the Paris terrorist attackers that killed 12 people at the weekly, but CNN, the BBC, New York Times and other institutional media have faced the issue of whether or not to republish the new cover of Charlie Hebdo with similar artwork. We discuss the mixed signals being sent …

Social Security disability payments could be cut after Republicans bound themselves to a reform of the federal disability insurance program last week, on the first day of the new Congress. Essentially, the two Social Security components, the disability insurance program and the much larger Old Age and Survivors Insurance program, are treated as one system with money moving between the …

Big data and algorithms of money making have proved to be a seductive–but flawed–system of doing business that has been shown to lead to financial collapse. Long Term Capital Management, Mortgage Backed Derivatives, and the lure of gaming the economy through manipulating algorithms to user benefit is explained by Jaron Lanier in this excerpt from the Talk Show interview, hosted …

Charlie Hebdo has released a new cover cartoon featuring Muhammad, and we discuss the free speech controversy around the publication a week after the terrorist attack in Paris, and we also discuss the Nigerian crisis with Boko Haram killing thousands in the last few weeks, including a brazen “suicide” attack using a young girl to blow up a crowded market. …

A serial killer nurse in Germany has confessed to killing 30 patients by injecting them with an overdose of heart medication and then trying to resuscitate them in an attempt to gain credit for saving lives. Now, Kurt Schwender, a doctor who investigated the deaths, is claiming that the 38-year-old nurse named ‘Niels H’ might have killed more than 100 …

The Anonymous hacker group has released a video on their Belgian Twitter account condemning the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were murdered. In the video, a figure wearing a Guy Fawkes mask declares war on terrorists saying that the hacktivists will track down and close all terrorist accounts on social networks. We take a look at the …