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U.S. bill seeks more Wi-Fi airwaves alongside smart cars

February 10, 2015 publisher california, chinese, defense, florida, from-various, more-spectrum, president, president-david, senators-marco, the-wireless, unprepared

(Reuters) – Two U.S. senators on Tuesday revived legislation that seeks to allocate more airwaves to public Wi-Fi by requiring regulators to quickly test how shared radio frequencies could coexist alongside those used for communications among smart cars. The bill by Senators Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, and Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, would direct the Federal Communications Commission to study how more spectrum can be freed up for public use without interfering with connected vehicles, which are incumbent users.

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U.S. creates new agency to lead cyberthreat tracking

February 10, 2015 admin california, cyber, cyber-threat, employees-work, florida, from-various, more-spectrum, national, obama, president, senators-marco, the-information, the-wireless, wilson-center

By Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Calling the destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures “a game changer,” a top White House official on Tuesday announced a new intelligence unit to coordinate analysis of cyberthreats, modeled on similar U.S. government efforts to fight terrorism. Lisa Monaco, President Barack Obama's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, said the new agency will rapidly pool and disseminate data on cyberbreaches, which she said are ballooning in size and sophistication, to U.S