Early Warning

Unbelievable : Personally, I thought the Internet was already quite insecure without the US government spending large amounts of money to...

There's a fascinating report in the Washington Post about the dimensions of US offensive cyber-operations. Here are a few excerpts. ...

Edward Snowden impersonated top level NSA officials to steal documents.  Fits my hypothesis  about him. Indian government to ban use of U...

Libyan oil exports have apparently plunged by 70% due to unrest in that country. The utility industry plans to hold large exercises to s...

This detention of Glenn Greenwald's partner under British anti-terrorism laws, while flying from Germany to Brazil, is absolutely and ...

The European economy grew  very slightly  in Q2. The graph of European (and US) GDP is above.  I think it's too soon to be certain th...

The above is European unemployment.  Is that a slight hint of improvement, finally, there at the end?  Or just noise?  Too soon to tell. ...

Apparently INEOS Bio has created some cellulosic ethanol.  Not clear how much. Claims that there was a near miss solar flare event a few...

Glenn Greenwald at the Guardian has written another very interesting article on XKeyscore, an NSA intelligence program to search huge amoun...

The above map shows the likelihood of a child from the bottom fifth of the income distribution rising into the top fifth, and is from a ...

The above is New York's real-time wholesale electricity prices showing the effect of the current heat wave in the North East. The c...

The above is European industrial production.  Things were looking a bit more positive for a few months, but the last month's data is ...