The U.S. government agency leading an effort to create a voluntary cybersecurity framework for companies operating critical infrastructure wants to hear ideas about what to include in those standards. The U.S. National Institute of ...
Despite assurances from the White House and little traction from Democrats in US Congress, a key Republican senator believes that a carbon tax is President Barack Obama's top priority. "That is the ultimate goal of this president," said ...
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APPLE has issued an apology to Chinese consumers after government media attacked its repair policies for two weeks in a campaign that reeked of economic nationalism. A statement Apple posted in Chinese on its website on Monday said the ...
US oil, natural gas and coal industries are bracing for the release of new standards that could derail, postpone or at least create new legal hurdles for some of the country's largest planned energy projects, including interstate pipelines, ...
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The US government is to introduce a "cyber espionage review" process into future purchases of IT after the measures were passed in a new funding law signed this week by President Obama. It follows reports in the press since the beginning ...
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US Representative Kevin Cramer, a Republican and North Dakota's lone House member, believes that hardline, pro-drilling arguments from his own party may be hindering the chances of bipartisan support for increasing oil and gas production on ...
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A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Friday questioned whether it or a federal district court should properly hear the American Petroleum Institute's challenge of a Securities and Exchange ...
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US President Barack Obama’s black Cadillac limousine has broken down in Israel after a member of the Secret Service reportedly filled its tank with diesel rather than petrol by mistake. The Telegraph newspaper in the UK reports the ...
The US government plans to reinforce its cybersecurity programme by expanding web monitoring, using a process which currently scans traffic going in and out of defence contractors and expanding it to private firms. That means employees of ...
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Bing is incorporating more information from outside social networks such as Facebook and Twitter into how it displays search results involving people. The changes are designed to give users at-a-glance answers to their search queries ...
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A site that published the private information and credit reports of several celebrities and other public figures last week went offline on Sunday. The last person to have his alleged private information exposed on the site was CIA director ...
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The European Commission today agreed the draft mandate for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement with the United States, effectively firing the starting gun for what is hoped to be a relatively quick negotiation. The ...
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At the close of the 16th Round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, chief negotiators reported that they had achieved the goal set for the round: to put the negotiations on an accelerated track toward conclusion of a ...
Cyberattacks are near the top of the list of most serious threats facing the U.S., with the rivaling concerns about terrorism and North Korea, intelligence officials with President Barack Obama's administration said. James Clapper, the ...
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China has offered to open discussions with the US on the issue of cyber security, following tit-for-tat accusations by both sides of hacking and stealing data from government and corporate websites. The Chinese offer follows comments by ...
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