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Attack on Fed Exposes Weak Patch Maintenance

2013-02-11 16:15:00| TechNewsWorld

While many Americans watched the wrap-up of the Super Bowl Feb. 3, the band of hackers called Anonymous broke into a Web-facing server at the Federal Reserve and pilfered a list of some 4000 people who work in the banking industry -- many of them ranking executives at banks and credit unions. Later in the week, the Fed acknowledged the break-in.

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Polar bears 'may need to be fed by humans'

2013-02-07 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: The day may soon come when some of the 19 polar bear populations in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Norway, and Russia will have to be fed by humans in order to keep them alive during an extended ice-free season or prevent them from roaming into northern communities. Some bears may have to be placed in temporary holding compounds until it is cold enough for them to go back onto the sea ice. In worst-case scenarios, polar bears from southern regions may have to be relocated to more northerly climes that...

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Fed up with 'emissions' from the gents? Change your toilet paper

2013-01-30 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: We suspect that many of you are, like the Tank, big fans of toilet paper - especially that brand with the dogs on it. If there's a cheaper way to decorate your walls, we've yet to find it. But our admiration for a product that gets the job done with the minimum of fuss has now extended even further, with the news Britain could save half a million tonnes of CO2 emissions every year if everybody switched to environmentally-friendly toilet paper. This is all according to one Green Steve, self-styled...

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Today's oil prices positive over US Fed meet, employment data

2013-01-28 01:00:00| Offshore Technology

Oil prices remained positive today, after investors showed further economic optimism ahead of a two-day US Federal Reserve policy meeting and key employment data due out this week, both of which are expected to show more signs of economic recovery in

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