▼ Author Community Vote 106 days ago Noah Shachtman Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets - — America's spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. — In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community … -- 159 days ago Noah Shachtman Danger Room in Afghanistan: A Close Fight, and a Couple of Miracles - — MIANPOSHTEH, Afghanistan — For seven hours, the Marine sniper team waited, crouching behind a concrete block in a dusty courtyard, at the edge of an adobe compound. They were pretty sure that a group of local Taliban militants … -- 182 days ago Noah Shachtman Marines Ban Twitter, MySpace, Facebook - — The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately. — “These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due … -- 187 days ago Noah Shachtman Military May Ban Twitter, Facebook as Security 'Headaches' - — The U.S. military is strongly considering a near-total ban on Twitter, Facebook, and all other social networking sites throughout the Department of Defense, multiple sources within the armed forces tell Danger Room. -- 189 days ago Noah Shachtman Exclusive Interview: Pirate on When to Negotiate, Kill Hostages - — For his story on the economics of Somali piracy, WIRED contributing editor Scott Carney spoke to one of the ocean-going hijackers. They talked about how to negotiate a ransom, when to kill a hostage, and how to avoid the Navy. -- 199 days ago Noah Shachtman Company Denies its Robots Feed on the Dead - — I never imagined I'd print a press release in full. Then, an hour ago, Howard Lovy e-mailed me the most incredible press release of all time... POMPANO BEACH, Fla.- In response to rumors circulating the internet on sites such as FoxNews.com … -- 200 days ago Noah Shachtman Gates: Future Jet Supporters are Risking Today's Troops - — At a speech today in Chicago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates lashed out at members of Congress, at the “defense and aerospace industry,” and at the “institutional military itself” for trying to keep ultra-expensive, often-useless weapons programs in the Pentagon budget. -- 301 days ago Noah Shachtman Pentagon Chief: Why I Tore Up the Army's 'Future' - — Of all the hard choices Defense Secretary Robert Gates had to make in his radical overhaul of the Pentagon's arsenal, the toughest, he tells Danger Room, was the decision to gut Future Combat Systems, the Army's $200 billion effort to design … -- 348 days ago Noah Shachtman Google Earth Shows U.S. Drones at Pakistani Base? - — Don't take a Senator's word for it. Old Google Earth satellite photos, dug up by the News of Pakistan, show U.S. drones, parked on a Pakistani runway, back in 2006. — The paper ID's the robotic planes as massive Global Hawk drones — unlikely, the shape's all wrong. -- 354 days ago Noah Shachtman Blackwater Takes Our Advice, Adopts Inscrutable, Opaque Name - — They never picked up on our Hello Kitty-style logos. But finally, after a godawful year and a half, the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide is taking Danger Room's advice, and changing its name to something opaque and hard-to-pronounce. --