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Like it or not, the web is getting some built-in padlocks. The World Wide Web Consortium has decided to publish Encrypted Media Extensions, a standard for hooking copy protection into web-based streaming video, without making significant changes to a version agreed to in March. While it’s not perfect, the W3C argues (you still need to […]
A co-founder of Berlin’s first ‘liberal mosque’, which has allowed both men and women, including members of the LGBT community, to pray together since opening last month, has been placed under 24-hour protection after receiving hundreds of death threats. Speaking to RT, Seyran Ates, a women’s rights activist and lawyer who is one of the […]
Investigators in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have questioned the account of a woman who said that she had been attacked with acid by her alleged gang rapists for a fifth time despite police protection, hours after the story of the attack made worldwide headlines. Following previous allegations, the 35-year-old woman, whose name has […]
Booking holidays online can cause travellers a lot of problems. From card scams to fraudulent websites, it can easily ruin a holiday before it even begins. However, new legislation could be brought in which will give holidaymaker more protection if a travel firm goes bust. It is to be the first Bill to be debated […]
Shutterstock Isolated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean at 11,135 feet above sea level, two silent machines perched on the upper north face of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano print out a number every hour. That figure — a measure of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere — has become the global standard for tracking […]
Evan Vucci/Associated Press The Memphis VA medical center fired whistleblower Sean Higgins on Thursday, the day before President Donald Trump signed into law major accountability and whistleblower protection legislation, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. In a letter dated Thursday and received by Higgins on Friday, Memphis VA medical center director David K. Dunning […]
Russian lower house lawmakers and the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) have discussed the information security strategy and agreed on the primary importance of joint measures to defend national sovereignty in cyberspace. The Friday discussion between lawmakers and FSB director Aleksandr Bortnikov was closed to the press, but some of the participants of […]
The Golden Knights draft process has officially begun. The NHL’s 31st team has received the list of protected players – those who won’t be exposed to the expansion draft – on the rosters of the other 30 NHL franchises and Vegas has until 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday to inform the league of its player selections. The […]
Fledgling insurance startup Sure has raised $ 8 million in a series A round of funding led by IA Capital, with contributions from Menlo Ventures, FF Venture Capital, Nationwide Ventures, Assurant, and AmTrust. Founded out of New York in 2014, Sure is one of a number of insurtech startups to come to the fore in recent […]
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