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Kim Dotcom has been teasing a big reveal for months, but he is an expert on creating hype. The wait is over, as MegaUpload's legal team has put together a white paper describing the alleged abuses of the US government in pursuing MegaUpload. The white paper goes into detail on how due process was bypassed and ... |
7 May 2013
08:40 GMT |
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The White House considers that while laws and practices relating to cybersecurity need to be modernized, this shouldn’t be done at the expense of privacy. This message from the White House comes as a response to an online petition that asked the Obama administration to stop the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and ... |
1 May 2013
07:55 GMT |
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The White House has been quite connected to the social web world recently, and for good reason. Now, it's adding another social network of sorts to the list of places it has a presence in, namely Tumblr. And before you ask, yes, there will be GIFs. "We see some great things here at the White House every day, a... |
27 April 2013
08:31 GMT |
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New developments arise in the Chandra Levy case, a White House intern who was killed in 2001. The testimony of a key witness in the convicted killer's trial could be thrown out, reports say. As we documented, Levy's case grabbed spotlights over her romantic involvement with former California Rep. Gary Cond... |
12 April 2013
04:30 GMT |
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Even the President of the United States, Barack Obama, has days when he dreams he could be more of a regular Joe instead of the most mediated and, according to some, most powerful, men on the planet.
Having an instantly recognizable face and so much security around him at all times does have its drawbacks, especiall... |
15 March 2013
02:53 GMT |
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On March 1, the White House Office of Management and Budget should have released a report about the security of federal government computer networks. The report has been put on hold and Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma believes it’s because it shows a lack of performance.
According to The Washington T... |
8 March 2013
18:01 GMT |
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The White House's decision to cancel tours due to the sequestration has caused an uproar among Republican lawmakers, who believe the measure is unnecessary.
According to Talk Radio News, White House reps have announced that visits will stop on March 9, 2013, as budget cuts have been made and keeping on staff wo... |
6 March 2013
05:20 GMT |
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This past Sunday, over 35,000 environmentalists gathered in front of the White House in Washington DC for the sole purpose of demanding that US President Barack Obama live up to his promises and take immediate measures against climate change and global warming.
The protesters who took the time to talk to the local ... |
18 February 2013
04:48 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Anonymous hackers revealed their intentions to make sure that there would be no State of the Union address on the web. They planned on blocking all the webcasts of US President Barack Obama’s speech. “Tonight, the President of the United States will appear before a joint session of Congress t... |
13 February 2013
03:16 GMT |
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This past Monday, several Hurricane Sandy survivors gathered in front of the White House, hoping to get Barack Obama's attention. Their sole goal was that of convincing the country's President to roll out strategies and policies aimed at tackling climate change and global warming as soon as possible. As... |
12 February 2013
16:41 GMT |
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This past February 4, Kickstarter witnessed the launch of a rather peculiar fundraising campaign. What makes this campaign so very special is the fact that, unlike others that mainly focus on trying to raise money to jump-start the large-scale manufacturing of various gadgets, it aims at gathering as much donations... |
6 February 2013
07:38 GMT |
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A group of gamers has started a special petition designed to attract the White House's attention to the practice of region locking in the video game industry as well as in the entertainment one as a whole.
Devices like home consoles can sometimes be region locked by manufacturers, meaning the devices sold in on... |
21 January 2013
11:41 GMT |
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The “We the People” petition tool created by the White House has certainly been popular. It hasn't been effective, since it hasn't actually resulted in any serious changes or any issues being addressed.
Well, it did get the White House to publish its secret beer recipe, but that's probably not what t... |
16 January 2013
08:31 GMT |
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Following their being asked and refusing to build a Death Star, high officials in the United States might soon have to decide whether or not they are ready and willing to list climate change and global warming as enemies of the state and treat them accordingly.
This is because, on January 13, actor Mark Rufallo sta... |
14 January 2013
08:41 GMT |
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About a month ago, the news that several American citizens had set up a petition hoping to raise enough signatures to convince the White House to build a Death Star cause quite a stir. Later on, the news that this petition actually managed to get all the signatures it needed in order to reach Barack Obama's de... |
12 January 2013
05:27 GMT |
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Unnamed US intelligence officials are unhappy with the fact that the Obama administration has not responded in any way to the cyberattacks allegedly launched by Iran against United States financial institutions. An official has told The Washington Free Beacon that the White House should do a better job in protectin... |
7 January 2013
07:32 GMT |
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It was only a few days back when the news that an online petition was asking the White House to commission the building of a Death Star as soon as possible made headlines.
Back then, most newspapers assumed that, all things considered, it was highly unlikely that this peculiar petition would raise the 25,000 signat... |
14 December 2012
07:05 GMT |
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An online petition that has gathered more than 16,000 signatures asks that the White House seriously start looking into the possibility of designing and manufacturing a Death Star.
As far as the people who signed this petition are concerned, construction activities should debut in 2016 at the latest, and by then, t... |
11 December 2012
07:59 GMT |
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It's official, Pinterest has grown up, now that the White House has set up shop there. The White House on the one hand and Barack Obama on the other have been extending their reach online.
The White House has official accounts on most social networks and is quick to adopt new ones as they become popular.
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10 December 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Only yesterday, about 3,000 protesters gathered in Washington DC and marched around the White House, hoping to collect on a promise made by President Obama during his first term.
Thus, these protesters want the US President to pull the plug on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, both because this project targets fa... |
19 November 2012
05:13 GMT |
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Just hours after Barack Obama got re-elected as president, green-oriented group 350.org has made it public news that on November 18 they are to take over Washington DC's Freedom Plaza and then march towards the White House in yet another attempt to protest the Keystone pipeline.
The climate group also hopes th... |
8 November 2012
16:31 GMT |
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The US House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee wasn’t the only one who analyzed telecoms companies Huawei and ZTE to see if they were spying for the Chinese government. The White House has also ordered an inquiry and the results are completely different compared to the initial report.
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18 October 2012
10:55 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano revealed that the executive order that seeks to create best cybersecurity practices for organizations in charge of handling the United States’ critical infrastructures is close to completion. However, as it turns out, the White House decided no... |
8 October 2012
05:19 GMT |
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Representatives of the United States White House have confirmed that Chinese hackers have penetrated their networks, but they claim that it’s not as bad as it seems.
Initially, it was believed that the hackers accessed the computer networks in charge of handling the government’s most sensitive systems, i... |
2 October 2012
02:55 GMT |
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A computer system utilized by the White House Military Office (WHMO) for nuclear commands has been breached by cybercriminals using servers located in China.
According to the official WHMO website, the agency “provides military support for White House functions, including food service, Presidential transporta... |
1 October 2012
03:23 GMT |
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From all we know, sustainable development usually goes hand in hand with supporting small-scale businesses and local entrepreneurs. Therefore, it should not come as a surprise that US President Barack Obama, who seems to be very keen on green living, is also quite committed to making his own beer. Truth be told, ... |
4 September 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Barack Obama has been pretty busy recently, what with the big elections coming in just a couple of months. Even so, he's been making some time to spend with "the internet," his Reddit AMA blew away traffic records for the site and generated a lot of attention. Well, if there's one thing Reddit likes more t... |
3 September 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Just yesterday, the White House housed a conference intended to analyze the ways in which America's sports industry might help bring down this country's ecological footprint.
Since massive amounts of money revolve around football, baseball, basketball and the like in most of this country's states, it... |
20 July 2012
05:52 GMT |
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Politicians might demonize video games in order to score political points with concerned parents and other categories, but the United States of America federal governments seems to have embraced them as important tools for economic and social development.
Constance Steinkuehler Squire, the policy advisor at the Whit... |
15 June 2012
09:34 GMT |
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The White House has finally come to realize that botnets represent a serious threat to both consumers and governments and as a result it launched a public-private partnership that’s aimed at combating the phenomenon.
Trade associations and nonprofit organizations that represent thousands of companies will for... |
31 May 2012
09:30 GMT |
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During a ceremony held at the White House yesterday, May 29, the first American astronaut to reach Earth's orbit was awarded the Medal of Freedom by US President Barack Obama. The honor is the highest civilian award that can be received in the United States.
It is awarded for “an especially meritorious co... |
30 May 2012
05:00 GMT |
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Howard Schmidt has decided to step down from the cyber security adviser position he has been occupying for almost two and a half years at the White House. He wants to dedicate his time to his family and to teaching IT security. According to The Washington Post, Schmidt, who is now 62, took the job at the beginning ... |
18 May 2012
08:19 GMT |
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Administrators of the official White House website rushed to address a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability after being notified by security researcher Ucha Gobejishvili.
According to his personal blog, the Georgian security expert identified the flaw on March 21 and immediately notified White House representati... |
24 March 2012
07:43 GMT |
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The budget presented by the White House today proposes that the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receive a 3 percent boost in overall funding for fiscal year 2013. This would bring the total funds made available to the organization to $5.06 billion (€3.85 billion).
The good news is that the cr... |
14 February 2012
11:05 GMT |
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The US Department of Commerce's (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will receive a total of $857 million (€651.92 million) for the fiscal year 2013. This represents a 14 percent increase from FY2012 levels, and sets the Institute on target for a budget doubling by 2016.
The funding... |
14 February 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Two planetary exploration missions headed for Mars may have to go on without the participation of the American space agency, if analysts' predictions come true. They say that the budgets NASA gets for planetary exploration will receive deep cuts in fiscal year 2013.
US President Barack Obama's federal bud... |
10 February 2012
03:35 GMT |
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It seems that the 'danger' has passed, after losing much of its momentum in the past few weeks, the White House has dealt a final blow to the much-maligned SOPA bill, by saying that it, which means President Barack Obama, will not support a bill that "reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity r... |
16 January 2012
09:01 GMT |
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The White House and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have awarded Microsoft an accolade for a video the company produced part of a campaign designed to boost Internet security awareness.
The award was presented by White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano,... |
28 June 2011
07:10 GMT |
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On April 8, the US Congress and the White House managed to reach a compromise on how the 2011 budget should look like. In a statement posted on the House Appropriations Committee website on April 12, the official budget for the American space agency was $18.485 billion.This represents a 1.3 percent decreased from 201... |
14 April 2011
04:36 GMT |
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In a bid to save more money for the federal budget, the White House has just ordered the American space agency to cancel two important satellites for climate science, that were only last year approved to launch in 2017.These missions could have produced reliable scientific data about the changes our planet is going t... |
8 March 2011
02:51 GMT |
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According to the 2012 budget request that the White House and the Obama Administration proposed, a host of federal agencies in the United States, including NASA, will have their spendings maintained at 2010 levels in the coming year.
The new document proposes that NASA get about $18.7 billion in 2012, a $300 mill... |
15 February 2011
02:57 GMT |
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An email spam campaign pushing fake greeting cards sent by the White House, tricked employees in government-related organizations to infect themselves with a trojan that stole sensitive documents.The rogue emails were sent out on December 23, had a subject of "Merry Christmas!" and purported to come from a jeff.jones... |
4 January 2011
03:57 GMT |
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Congress has recently been asked to increase fundings for the planned Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) mission to Earth's orbit. NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) want to build the new civilian weather satellite for studying global warming and related issues.At this point,... |
10 December 2010
03:47 GMT |
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In a November 17 ceremony, US President Barack Obama awarded ten of the top scientific minds in the country with the highest distinction that the nation can offer, the National Medal of Science. The National Science Foundation (NSF) manages the NMS for the White House. The medal was instated in 1959, and has been awa... |
24 November 2010
04:50 GMT |
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On his way to a fund raising dinner at the Palo Alto home of Google executive Marissa Mayer, United States President Barack Obama met with Apple CEO Steve Jobs to have a 45-minute private conversation on the presumed topic of technology, education, and job creation.MercuryNews.com reports that Obama’s private m... |
22 October 2010
03:21 GMT |
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On Thursday, October 14, US President Barack Obama announced the names of the 10 researchers that will receive the National Medal of Science. Additionally, three scientists and a research team will be awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. These two awards are the highest distinctions that the US go... |
16 October 2010
05:35 GMT |
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Officials in Washington announced that the White House will get a new set of solar panels on its roof, as well as a solar hot water heater, as part of ongoing efforts to raise awareness on the fact that alternative energy is readily available. At this point, solar panels are no longer prohibitively expensive, and an ... |
6 October 2010
05:43 GMT |
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The White House and science educators are currently criticizing the US National Science Foundation (NSF) severely, for a less-than-usual editorial decision. In its latest report for the government, the federally funded agency failed to list polls showing how Americans viewed highly sensitive issues such as the beginn... |
10 April 2010
07:03 GMT |
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One of the most interesting initiatives presented at the Game Developers Conference, which took place in San Francisco, has been that Apps for Healthy Kids program that the White House initiated, aiming to use videogames as a direct and powerful way of educating a young audience about the way they should eat and exer... |
15 March 2010
04:38 GMT |
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The Obama Administration has announced officially that it plans to change its approach to space exploration. This means that Project Constellation, the American project to return to the Moon by 2020, will be canceled, and that emphasis will be placed on providing funding for the private space sector. NASA is to again... |
2 February 2010
02:38 GMT |
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