US oil industry hit by cyberattacks: Was China involved? 26 Jan 2010 02:56 GMT

.. cyberespionage to help do that,” says Greg Garcia, assistant secretary for cybersecurity at the Department (ODCI) … nonprofit venture capital firm funded by the Central Intelligence Agency. The new cyberwarfare has become complex enough … At least three US oil companies were the target of a series of previously undisclosed cyberattacks that may have…

European Commission says survival of euro at risk

According to a report in Germany’s news magazine Der Spiegel the European Commission warned that the euro area’s chances of survival would depend criticially on adjusting the internal imbalances. The reported quoted from a paper by DG Ecfin, accourding to which internal imbalances would weaken confidence in the euro and endanger the cohesion of the…

Cokes New Bottle Update

PART PLANT Coke, under fire from environmentalists for using plastic bottles, has introduced a new packaging material made partly from plants. The container has “the same weight, the same feel, the same chemistry, and functions exactly the same way” as a regular plastic bottle, a Coke spokeswoman says. Coke isn’t the only beverage concern trying…

Page 2 of 2 Drone surge: Today, tomorrow and 2047

Page 2 of 2 Drone surge: Today, tomorrow and 2047 By Nick Turse As a start, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, the Pentagon’s blue skies research outfit, is already looking into radically improving on Gorgon Stare with an “Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance-Infrared (ARGUS-IR) System”. In the obtuse language of military research…

Page 1 of 2 Drone Surge: Today, Tomorrow and 2047

Page 1 of 2 Drone surge: Today, tomorrow and 2047 (Used by permission Tomdispatch) Asia Times contributor Nick Turse One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a missile blasted a home, killing 13 people. Days later, the same increasingly…

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Sundance: New Trails To Finding An Audience

PARK CITY, Utah — The starkest picture to emerge from the opening days of this year’s Sundance Film Festival may be of an independent film business forced to stretch in untested directions because its old distribution model no longer works. Times Topics: Sundance Film Festival (Park City, Utah Standard operating procedure over the years at…

Fox Wins Studio War

Our Thanks, To Nikki Finke EXCLUSIVE: The auction ended late Friday night and I’ve been putting together what happened ever since. Certainly you’ll recall the big cool quotient around Machete, that famously fake trailer by Robert Rodriguez from Grindhouse. It was considered the single best thing about that Weinstein Co double-feature flop that also included…