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Report: Amazon Is Building The CIA’s New Cloud-Computing System

The CIA has reportedly signed a massive cloud-computing deal with Amazon, worth up to $US600 million over the next 10 years. FCW reports that its sources have told it Amazon will build a private cloud infrastructure for the CIA, to help it “keep up with emerging technologies like big data in a cost-effective manner not possible under the CIA’s previous cloud efforts”.


A Moral Crisis: Gizmodo Talks Drones With Dennis Kucinich

There’s Foxconn, there’s torrented TV shows, there’s patent bickering. But for the use of right and wrong in technology, there’s one question that supersedes all others: Should the US be killing ordinary people with robotic soldiers in the sky?


How Gmail Took Down Philandering CIA Director David Petraeus

If you want to get away with something, don’t use Gmail. As David Petraeus and his sexytime lady friend Paula Broadwell learned, thanks to rich data that Google stores from every email, you will be found out.


The CIA Had A Stealthy Insectocopter Flying 40 Years Ago

Who knows what kind of craziness the CIA is working on now, but back in the 1970s, the goal was to perfect a robotic dragonfly. Now, 40 years later, you can see footage of the prototype in action.


This Memo Killed Osama Bin Laden

The pen is mightier than the Seal Team 6, or something like that. Read the letter that officially made Bin Laden a dead man, straight off of CIA letterhead.


The CIA’s Mach 3 Recon Drone

Gary Power’s failed sortie over Soviet Russia in 1960 prompted military brass to search for unmanned alternatives for performing recon over hostile territory. The D-21 drone was Lockheed’s solution — launched from a modified A-12, it spied on Red China at over 3218km/h.


CIA’s Secret Fear: High-Tech Border Checks Will Blow Spies’ Cover

When Tom Cruise had to break into police headquarters in Minority Report, the futuristic crime thriller, he got past the iris scanners with ease: He just swapped out his eyeballs.


Anonymous Explains CIA Takedown

It took a few days, but a representative of Anonymous (as far as there is such a thing) has given Gizmodo a manifesto of sorts, explaining Friday’s DDoS attack against the CIA.


Anonymous Says They’ve Killed The CIA’s Website

One of Anonymous’ Twitter mouthpieces claims the hacker collective just took down CIA.gov. It’s definitely down. If this is what it looks like, it could be Anon’s greatest hit so far.


The Secret Spy Toys Of The KGB

Ever since watching James Bond as a child, we’ve all dreamt about spy toys. Secret cameras, hidden guns, that kind of thing. Well here’s the real deal, straight out of the KGB vaults.