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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, points during an intense conversation with President Obama after he arrived at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Ariz. She has since made light of the incident in trying to rally support for a Medicaid expansion in the state.

In Arizona, An Unlikely Ally For Medicaid Expansion

The Arizona Legislature is debating whether to extend Medicaid to about 300,000 people in the state. The expansion is a requirement to get federal funding under the Affordable Care Act.

An activist of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena hold placards and roses outside the residence of Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal in New Delhi.

India's Techies Angered Over Internet Censorship Plan

Millions of India's young people are cutting edge when it comes to high-tech. Yet the country is still very conservative by Western standards, and a government minister recently said that offensive material on the web should be removed. The statement has angered the nation's tech community who say the idea infringes on democracy and is possibly illegal.

Technology Outpacing Policymakers, Needs Of NSA

The controversy over the National Security Agency's surveillance programs has exposed a problem in the oversight of those programs: The development of the relevant technology has outpaced the laws and policies that govern its use.

Cyberstalking victims often don't know they're being tracked through their own phone because spyware apps like mSpy use misleading labels [labeled "android.sys.process" here] and don't take up much data.

Smartphones Are Used To Stalk, Control Domestic Abuse Victims

Cyberstalking has transformed domestic abuse in the U.S. Tracking tools called spyware make it cheap and easy for someone to monitor a partner secretly, 24 hours a day.

Colleges Turn From In-House E-mail To Free Gmail

Universities are trading in their server-clogging in-house e-mail systems for Gmail, which Google offers to schools free. Colleges that make the switch save time, money and precious disc space. But at least one school has backed off, and a few students are asking, "What's the catch?"

The Torch Ginger (or the Porcelain Rose) is both beautiful and horrifying to my messed up brain.

Why The Rainforest Stokes My Bizarre Fear

The jungle is alive with anxiety. It's not the big cats or wild snakes that send me into fits. It's the tiny clusters of life clinging to every branch that send a hot wire through my brain.

The cover of one of the finalists for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year.

Book News: What Will 'Win' Oddest Title Of The Year?

Also: The U.K. issues Jane Austen postage stamps; in the U.S., biographer Paula Broadwell's promotion in the Army Reserves is suspended; it's Edward Gorey's birthday; and an anti-bullying poem goes viral.

Google said last week that it had experienced "a highly sophisticated and targeted" cyberattack in China.

Chinese Attack On Google Seen As Cybertheft

Someone is stealing the secrets of one of the most innovative companies on the planet. China experts say this may be the real story behind Google's threat to pull out of China.

The U.K., Canada and other countries have been using more-secure chip credit cards for years now. Why hasn't the U.S. caught up?

Outdated Magnetic Strips: How U.S. Credit Card Security Lags

Criminals may have stolen information from 40 million credit and debit cards used at Target. A possible weakness? The magnetic stripe on credit cards -- which fraudsters can pull credit card numbers and expiration dates from to make counterfeit cards.

How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans? In FRONTLINE’s “United States of Secrets,” a two-part series from Michael Kirk and Martin Smith, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the U.S. government’s massive and controversial post-9/11 secret surveillance program.

FRONTLINE: United States Of Secrets

Airs Tuesdays, May 13 & 20, 2014 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

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