Reuters | Breaking Views | By: Richard Beales | Wed Jun 28, 2017 | 4:47pm EDT Who’d be in charge of a corporate IT network with hacks, phishing and now a double dose of so-called ransomware to contend with? This week’s cyber attack hit targets from Ukraine to the United Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Nick Kostov and Costas Paris | Updated June 28, 2017 5:27 p.m. ET: Shipping giant Maersk shuts terminals; ransomware was designed to spread within corporate networks running Microsoft’s Windows. Global firms scrambled to cope with fallout from a cyberattack that disrupted computers across Europe Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Aaron Karp | Jun 28, 2017: American Airlines has reached an agreement with technology firm Analogic to buy $6 million worth of computed tomography (CT) airport checkpoint screening machines that the carrier hopes to deploy at US airports later this year following US government certification Read more…
Zurich Insurance | By: Angela Skow | GPE – June 29, 2017: Challenges of our nation’s aging infrastructure: Our aging infrastructure costs millions in repairs, business interruption and supply chain risks. Whether P3 construction projects may sway the pendulum remains to be seen. There is a lot of buzz in Read more…
Video Above: “What Are Microgrids?” Greentech Media | By: Jeff St. John | June 27, 2017: One of the country’s biggest microgrid providers plans to share technologies and markets with one of California’s top BTM storage startups. Microgrids require a hefty combination of technologies to execute properly. They also require Read more…
Reuters | Wed Jun 28, 2017 | 2:42pm EDT: A German regulator has suspended the launch of a law obliging German telecom companies to keep telephone and Internet data for up to 10 weeks to help fight crime, citing a court ruling. The data retention law, which had been due Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: John Bray | June 28, 2017 at 8:18AM: How far is it feasible to apply a global compliance policy in widely differing regional markets? And to what extent should there be local policy exceptions? In Control Risks’ 2017 International Business Attitudes to Compliance survey, a Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Hamza Shaban and Brian Fung | June 27 at 12:07 PM: Google just got hit with a record $2.7 billion fine in Europe. The European Union’s head of antitrust enforcement announced a record $2.7 billion fine against Google on Tuesday, accusing the search engine for Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Steve Sawyer | June 21, 2017: ‘A remarkable achievement,’ is the only thing I can say about where the European offshore wind industry finds itself today. It has taken a lot longer and cost a lot more money and effort than we thought back in Read more…
The New York Times | By: Nicole Perlroth, Mark Scott and Sheera Frenkel | June 27, 2017: Computer systems from Ukraine to the United States were struck on Tuesday in an international cyberattack that was similar to a recent assault that crippled tens of thousands of machines worldwide. In Kiev, Read more…
Technology Decisions | By: Jonathan Nally | Tuesday, 27 June, 2017: Local governments around Australia are implementing strategic plans to place themselves at the forefront of the smart cities revolution. Twenty years ago, no-one had heard of smart cities. Today, the concept is rapidly growing all around us. And in Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: David Gauthier-Villars and Michael Amon | June 27, 2017 11:03 a.m. ET: Maersk, WPP Group and Rosneft all report significant intrusions on their computer systems. Global businesses, including shipping giant A.P. Moeller-Maersk AMKBY 0.62% A/S, advertising firm WPP Group WPPGY -0.95% PLC and Russian Read more…
Forester Network | By: Laura Sanchez | GPE – 28 June 2017: The charges recently brought against five Michigan officials in relation to Flint’s water contamination crisis, and the involuntary manslaughter and misconduct charges against director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Nick Lyon, made me reflect Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Sam Schechner | Updated June 27, 2017 7:08 a.m. ET: EU orders Google to treat rival comparison-shopping services equally in its search results. The European Union’s antitrust regulator on Tuesday fined Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL -1.42% Google a record €2.42 billion ($2.71 billion) for favoring Read more…
The Gallup Blog | By: Jon Clifton | June 27, 2017: Americans’ feeling of freedom is declining. In 2006, 91% of Americans were satisfied with the freedom in their lives. Today, it’s 75%. The 16-percentage-point decline is dramatic – but looking at how far the U.S. has fallen in comparison Read more…
LinkedIn | By: Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson | GPE – June 27, 2017: Over the past few years we’ve developed artificially intelligent machines that can do many things that used to require human minds: understanding speech, diagnosing disease, checking the terms of a contract, designing a mechanical part from Read more…
Kansas State University | Seeker | By: Glenn McDonald | GPE – June 27 2017: Kansas State University scientists stumble upon a surprisingly simple method for making industrial graphene: blowing stuff up. Apparently, when it comes to making graphene, the 21st-century “miracle material” taking manufacturing by storm, you can do Read more…
The University Of Manchester | GPE – June 27 2017: Newsfacts: Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water; New research shows graphene can filter common salts from water to make it safe to drink; Findings could lead to affordable desalination technology. About Graphene Membrane: Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention Read more…
Reuters | By: David Stanway | Mon Jun 26, 2017 | 9:27pm EDT: China has launched five pilot zones to promote “green finance” and help pay for a war on pollution that is expected to cost at least 3 trillion yuan ($440 billion) a year, according to notices published by Read more…
Engineering News | By: Terence Creamer | 26th June 2017: Recent renewable energy price reductions, together with sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA’s) formidable solar and wind resources, have made solar and wind technologies the cheapest sources of power in several countries, which carries significant implications, a newly published academic paper argues, for Read more…
CNN Money | By: Donna Borak | June 22, 2017 | 2:48 PM ET:
Seeking to provide some regulatory relief to community banks and other small financial institutions, bank regulators on Thursday asked Congress to consider several changes to the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform laws.
The regulators, which include the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., mapped out how Congress and regulators could tailor regulations on smaller banks to help spur economic growth.
“In terms of reducing the regulatory burden, the biggest bang for the buck is to reduce the burden on smaller financial institutions,” said FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg during a Senate Banking Committee hearing.
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Top policymakers stressed proposed changes to the Dodd-Frank law should not undermine the strength of reforms born from the 2008 recession and aimed at preventing another financial crisis.
Reuters | By: Jonathan Spicer | Mon Jun 26, 2017 | 11:10am EDT: The Federal Reserve’s little-known role housing the assets of other central banks comes with a unique benefit to the United States: It serves as a source of foreign intelligence for Washington. Senior officials from the U.S. Treasury Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Tony Osborne | Jun 23, 2017: China’s UAVs are selling well in Asia and the Middle East. It was not the most dynamic of exhibits on display at this year’s Paris Air Show, but the unexpected appearance of a Chinese-built armed UAV in Read more…
The Guardian | By: Damian Carrington | Saturday 24 June 2017 07.01 BST: Freedom-of-information data reveals threat of drought that would devastate wildlife, with government slow to act on water management. A quarter of England’s rivers are at risk of running dry, with devastating consequences for wildlife, according to data Read more…
Reuters | By: Eric Auchard | Fri Jun 23, 2017 | 1:13pm EDT: Adyen, one of Europe’s biggest fintech companies, has taken a pan-European banking licence that allows it to bypass banks and process cross-border payments directly for its merchant customers, including many of the world’s top ecommerce firms. Chief Read more…
Reuters | Mon Jun 26, 2017 | 6:22am EDT China and Canada have signed an agreement vowing not to conduct state-sponsored cyber attacks against each other aimed at stealing trade secrets or other confidential business information. The agreement was reached during talks between Canada’s national security and intelligence adviser, Daniel Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jim Carlton | June 23, 2017 8:00 a.m. ET: Project to replace decades-old structure near San Francisco Bay has seen delays and unexpected construction issues. The coastal mountains that frame the working-class city of Fremont, California – next to San Francisco Bay – harbor Read more…
Bloomberg | Financial Times | June 23, 2017 An investigation illustrates the risks for targets of takeover bids. A regulatory probe announced by China into the “systemic risk” of some of its biggest overseas acquirers is both welcome and troubling. Welcome because Beijing is raising a red flag over corporations Read more…
Reuters | By: Kate Holton | Jun 24, 2017 | 3:02pm EDT: Britain’s parliament was hit by a “sustained and determined” cyber attack on Saturday designed to identify weak email passwords, just over a month after a ransomware worm crippled parts of the country’s health service. The House of Commons Read more…
The Washington Times | By: Andrew Blake | Friday, June 23, 2017: Russian lawmakers on Friday unanimously approved the first reading of legislation outlawing virtual private network (VPN) services and other technologies that let internet users bypass Moscow’s ever-expanding blacklist of banned websites. Lawmakers in the State Duma, the lower Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jack Nicas | June 23, 2017 | 3:45 p.m. ET: Tech giant says move is to bring free Gmail service in line with corporate offering. Google said its computers will soon stop reading the emails of its Gmail users to personalize their ads, a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Betsy Morris Updated June 23, 2017 8:56 a.m. ET: Apple’s iPhone gave rise to whole new industries and laid waste to others. As the device turns 10, we take stock of its impact on everything from cameras to telecoms. Ten years ago, hailing a Read more…
Capital Ideas | Online Articles: Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative and disruptive advancement since the Industrial Revolution. After decades of hype and disappointment, AI is poised to fuel the next wave of innovation, and potentially provide unprecedented opportunities for companies and investors. “The world is on the cusp Read more…
Renewable Energy Magazine | Panorama | Friday, 23 June 2017: The investment facility (of ADB) supports a series of renewable energy projects and sector reforms in the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, the Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Read more…
IBM | Security Intelligence | By: Christophe Veltsos | Originally Published May 22, 2017: “There are over 5 million jobs open in this country. The reason they are not filled is skills.” — Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO, speaking to Fox Business about new collar jobs. Organizations are suffering from an Read more…
Reuters | Fri Jun 23, 2017 | 5:30am EDT: Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyber attacks on the West, a Read more…
GPE Original Article | By: Ray Murray | 23rd June 2017: In May 2016, an article was published on the BBC Global News website, “BBC Capital”. The article by Renuka Rayasamon was entitled, “Even Desert City Dubai Imports Its Sand. This Is Why.” Some of the key points which the Read more…
Reuters | By: Byron Kaye and Jamie Freed | Fri Jun 23, 2017 | 2:27am EDT: A second Australian state on Friday said it was open to charging its own bank tax, raising fears the federal government has opened a “Pandora’s box” by slapping a A$6.2 billion ($4.7 billion) levy Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Jim Robbins | June 20, 2017: Vast amounts of river-borne sediment are trapped behind the world’s large dams, depriving areas downstream of material that is badly needed to build up the marshes and wetlands that act as a buffer against rising seas. In September 2011, Read more…
National Election Defense Coalition: June 21, 2017: Dear Member of Congress: Faith in American democracy rests on the integrity of our elections. So it stands to reason that lawmakers and administrators from both political parties should prioritize efforts to minimize election security risks. While there has been encouraging progress to Read more…
Abstract | Kuran, Timur and Sunstein, Cass R. | Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation | Stanford Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, 1999 | U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 181 | U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 384: An availability cascade is a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Gregor Stuart Hunter | Updated June 21, 2017 1:12 a.m. ET: Inclusion of mainland China markets in major benchmark indexes is expected to lead to global investors focusing on corporate governance. MSCI Inc.’s decision to include mainland Chinese shares in its global benchmarks for Read more…
Phys.Org | June 20, 2017: Rain or shine has new meaning thanks to an innovative, inexpensive and simple tactic developed by researchers at Florida Atlantic University that will really change how people think about watering their lawns. The tactic? A straightforward road sign. Outdoor water restrictions are a common water Read more…
LinkedIn | Wall Street Journal | By: Nick Elliott (WSJ Editor) & Rob Sloan | June 20, 2017: Trust is normally considered a virtue in business but as the National Security Agency looks across the landscape of cybersecurity threats it sees trusted relationships as a major weakness for companies. These Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 8:28AM: What’s the biggest change in the compliance landscape? It’s the deep engagement of boards and senior management. Today they understand the risks of reputational damage and want to stay a step ahead of the compliance Read more…
The Financial Times | 21st June 2017: Offshore companies’ funds more than double the IMF’s estimate in 2010. Offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands have assets of more than $1.5tn, more than twice the sum estimated in 2010. Two-thirds of the offshore companies registered in the BVI are used Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Brian Fung, Craig Timberg and Matea Gold | June 19 2017 | 2:42 PM: Detailed information on nearly every U.S. voter — including in some cases their ethnicity, religion and views on political issues — was left exposed online for two weeks by a political Read more…
Reuters | By: Anna Irrera | Mon Jun 19, 2017 | 1:40pm EDT: Accenture Plc and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to build a digital ID network using blockchain technology, as part of a United Nations-supported project to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people worldwide with no official documents. Read more…
Reuters | China Daily | Mon Jun 19, 2017 | 9:08pm EDT: State-owned China Railway Group (601390.SS) has signed a $2.5 billion memorandum of understanding with Russia to build a high-speed railway in the country, the China Daily reported on Tuesday. President Xi Jinping has championed what China calls the Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Melanie Evans | June 18, 2017 3:30 p.m. ET: Some breaches at hospitals involving ransomware don’t have to be made public, a loophole some are trying to close. A cyberattack last year paralyzed MedStar Health computers, forcing the Maryland operator of 10 hospitals and Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By David Schoenbrod | June 18, 2017 5:35 p.m. ET: Lawmakers seek credit for benefits while evading blame for burdens. Change will require them to act. Candidate Donald Trump vowed to spur economic growth by freeing businesses from burdensome regulation. President Trump has fallen short Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Shane Harris and Kate Fazzini | June 19, 2017 9:00 a.m. ET: UpGuard says information on nearly 200 million American voters was available on a public server. A computer-security company said that a proprietary data set containing personal information on nearly 200 million American Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Nektaria Stamouli and William Wilkes | June 19, 2017 1:06 p.m. ET: Greece’s blockage of EU rebuke shows how China’s investments in bloc’s strapped economies pay off. Greece’s recent veto of a European Union statement condemning Chinese human-rights violations shows the return Beijing is Read more…
Reuters | By: Elias Glenn | Sun Jun 18, 2017 | 2:14am EDT: Leaders of the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank touted its growing membership and commitment to sustainable development at its annual meeting, even as environmental groups were disappointed by its openness to investing in coal projects. The AIIB, Read more…
Nextgov | By: Keith Collins | June 17, 2017: For the past four months, WikiLeaks has been slowly publishing a series of documents that describe a plethora of hacking tools, which the anti-secrecy organization says belong to the Central Intelligence Agency. The latest release, published June 15, is a batch Read more…
Defense One | By: Michael Breen and Sherri Goodman | June 16, 2017: In the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the historic Paris Climate Agreement, governors, mayors, businesses, and people across the country have declared that they still support the agreement. They know Read more…
Nextgov | By: Mohana Ravindranath | June 16, 2017: The (US) Energy Department is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in researching powerful but energy-efficient computers. The department is awarding $258 million in research contracts to six companies developing supercomputing technology. Over the next three years, those companies are expected Read more…
Circle Of Blue | The Stream | The Global Rundown | June 19, 2017: Leaders in Africa say more must be done to fight desertification, improve agricultural opportunities, and create green jobs to prevent the continent’s youth from migrating or becoming radicalized. Flint, Michigan must approve a new long-term contract Read more…
Sageret | Verosvres (France)| 2 June 2017 (AFP): In an immense warehouse, an ocean of blond wood. Raised by winches, huge wooden beams will soon support higher and higher buildings and ambitious buildings such as the Cité du Vin de Bordeaux or the cathedral of Créteil. Here, “glued-laminated” beams are Read more…
Sageret | Paris | June 13, 2017 (AFP): The inquiry into the Franco-Swiss cement manufacturer Lafarge Holcim, which was accused of having indirectly financed armed groups in Syria, was handed over to three investigating judges, the court said on Tuesday. The judicial inquiry, opened on 9 June, targeted the heads Read more…
Reuters | Financial Times | June 19 2017: Agents pursue ‘leavers’ who moved Swiss bank accounts to other offshore centres. US tax authorities are intensifying their efforts to find tax evaders and the bankers who assist them, deploying agents to examine reams of data collected from the Panama Papers, Swiss Read more…
The Financial Times | June 18 2017: Fears of Russian influence revive drive to track corporations’ true owners. US lawmakers are launching a fresh effort to outlaw “shell companies” amid fears that Russia is exploiting such opaque corporate vehicles to spread its influence. Charles Grassley, Senate judiciary committee chairman, and Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Natalia Drozdiak | Updated June 16, 2017 4:50 a.m. ET: Penalty could reach as high as 10% of annual revenue, which was more than $90 billion in 2016. The European Union’s antitrust watchdog in the coming weeks is set to hit Alphabet Inc.’s Google Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Josh Chin Updated June 15, 2017 11:11 p.m. ET: Team beams particles from space in advance for quantum communications. Chinese scientists have succeeded in sending specially linked pairs of light particles from space to Earth, an achievement experts in the field say gives China Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Sam Schechner Updated June 15, 2017 3:57 p.m. ET: New software is tasked with identifying videos, photos, language and users that need to be removed, at times without human moderators. Under intense political pressure to better block terrorist propaganda on the internet, Facebook Inc. Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Susan Carey | Updated June 14, 2017 4:07 p.m. ET: Head of European Aviation Safety Agency highlights potential fire hazards with U.S. plans to relegate passenger laptops to cargo holds. Europe’s top air-safety regulator issued the most explicit criticism yet of U.S. proposals to Read more…
Video By IBM – Blockchain Explained. Reuters | Technology News | By: Suzanne Barlyn | Wed Jun 14, 2017 | 7:55pm EDT: Insurer American International Group Inc (AIG.N) has partnered with International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) to develop a “smart” insurance policy that uses blockchain to manage complex international coverage, Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Robert McMillan | Updated June 12, 2017 4:05 p.m. ET: Crashoverride took out electricity in Ukraine’s capital last year and could be repurposed to target U.S. systems. Computer-security researchers said Sunday they have discovered the malicious software that knocked out electricity in Ukraine’s capital Read more…
The FCPA BLog | Artificial Intelligence | By: Dan Adamson | Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 9:08AM: Just 15 years ago, due diligence researchers might spend hours retrieving documents from courthouses and sifting through microfiche at libraries. As recently as 2010, they could go through six to 12 months of Read more…
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Zurich Report | Environmental risks | Global risks | May 26, 2017: This deep dive outlines the risks associated with water scarcity – and advises on how to mitigate those or adapt to them. Recent research shows that water scarcity is an even bigger problem than previously thought. The World Read more…
Bank Of International Settlements | June 2017: Being aware of the risks incurred by banks of being used, intentionally or unintentionally, for criminal activities, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is issuing these guidelines to describe how banks should include money laundering (ML) and financing of terrorism (FT) risks within Read more…
Circle Of Blue | WaterNews | By: Brett Walton | June 20, 2016: Flint lead scandal a factor in stirring action for other contaminants. Teflon — “Nothing messes with it,” reads the tagline on the latest ad campaign for the famed nonstick cookware. A fried egg, sunny side up, vaults Read more…
USA Today Network | By: Keith Matheny | Detroit Free Press | 2:20 p.m. ET June 8, 2017: They come from everyday products ranging from nonstick pan surfaces, carpet stain-proofing and water-resistant clothing. And they’re in almost every American’s blood: highly fluorinated toxic chemicals known as perfluorochemicals, or PFCs. They’re Read more…
Reuters | By: Julia Fioretti | Thu Jun 8, 2017 | 1:18pm EDT: The European Union wants to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to get electronic evidence directly from tech companies, such as Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, even when stored in another European country. Read more…
Harvard Business Review | HBR Ideacast | July 2017: Mihir Desai, professor at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, argues for re-humanizing finance. He says the practice of finance, with increasing quantification, has lost touch with its foundations. But he says finance can be principled, ethical, even life-affirming. And Read more…
Wall Street Journal | By: Yang Jie and Josh Chin | June 7, 2017 9:38 a.m. ET: Foreign technology companies said they were uncertain how the new law would affect their operations. BEIJING—A week after China’s first cybersecurity law took effect, an investigation over the alleged theft and sale of Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Mike Cherney | June 7, 2017 | 10:01 a.m. ET: In Cambodia, monkeys destroyed its equipment. ULURU, Australia—Google is coming across some unusual challenges as it seeks to capture eye-level imagery of the most remote parts of the globe. In a recent foray into Read more…
Accenture Consulting | June 2017: Distributed generation is playing an increasingly important role in energy systems across the world, driven by the sustainability agenda, energy independence concerns and increasingly favorable economics. There is overwhelming evidence that this trend will continue. We are seeing consumers showing growing interest in installing renewable Read more…
Rand Corporation | By: John S. Davis II, Benjamin Adam Boudreaux, Jonathan William Welburn, Jair Aguirre, Cordaye Ogletree, Geoffrey McGovern, Michael Chase: The public attribution of a malicious cyber incident consists of identifying the responsible party behind the activity. A cyber attribution finding is a necessary prerequisite for holding actors Read more…
Financial Times | 6th June 2017: Lack of investment in renewables threatens national security, warns military think-tank. The US is falling behind other countries in advanced energy technologies, threatening national security and undermining its global influence, former generals and admirals in the US military are warning the Trump administration. The Read more…
Financial Times | 7th June 2017: Deal to abolish ‘treaty shopping’ hailed as a turning point. Some 70 countries will sign a pact on Wednesday to crack down on international tax avoidance, with changes that backers say will increase the worldwide corporate tax take by up to 10 per cent. Read more…
The Washington Post | By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. June 6 at 1:07 PM: For the small fraternity of people who make their living coaxing musical notes out of vulnerable pieces of wood and metal, few things are more terrifying than seeing an expensive, defenseless instrument disappear on that little Read more…
Reuters | Business News | By: Roslan Khasawneh and Oleg Vukmanovic | Tue Jun 6, 2017 | 2:39pm EDT: A campaign by leading Arab powers to isolate Qatar is disrupting trade in commodities from crude oil to metals and food, and deepening fears of a possible jolt to the global Read more…
Reuters | Business News | By: Victoria Bryan | Tue Jun 6, 2017 | 7:30pm EDT: Feeling the heat from customer complaints amplified by social media, airline executives meeting in Mexico this week said they need to apologize and explain more quickly when things go wrong. In the past few Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Aarti Maharaj | Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 8:22AM: A new survey found that Chief Compliance and Ethics Officers are struggling to effectively aggregate and analyze data due in part to outdated technology and a lack of available tools at their disposal. The 2017 Ethics Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 7:18AM: The U.S. Supreme Court Monday ruled 9-0 to limit the Securities and Exchange Commission’s legal authority to recover ill-gotten profits from defendants. The Supreme Court in Kokesh v. SEC said the SEC’s use of the Read more…
Wall Street Journal | By: Betsy Morris June 5, 2017 8:00 a.m. ET: While consumer sales remain low, industries from construction to medicine are using the technology to train for risky jobs. Gary Steinberg, Stanford University’s head of neurosurgery, has been operating on brains for more than three decades. Only Read more…
La Ligne | Issue 625 | May 2017: On 21 March, to the surprise of all, the US Department of Homeland Security issued a security directive requiring passengers flying between certain airports from the Near / Middle East or North Africa to the United States to store any electronic device Read more…
La Ligne | Issue 625 | May 2017: The delicate management of a global phenomenon. (Loosely translated from the original French): Planes diverted, passengers disembarked, threats, violent behavior, intoxication … such are the situations regularly experienced by many travellers, resulting from the acts of a minority of passengers. However, the Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology News | By: Philip J. Jasper | May 25 2017: Recently, the U.S. Defense Department stepped up its outreach to commercial technology companies to ensure that its warfighters have access to the latest innovation and capabilities. Based on my experience, U.S. commercial industry enthusiastically supports Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Michael Bruno | May 5 2017: Data Crunch: All the talk is about the rise of big data at aerospace industry gatherings. Forget about new pilots, engines and maintainers—apparently what the aerospace and defense world needs most is data scientists. Big data—the mining, Read more…
Reuters | By: Tim Hepher | Sun Jun 4, 2017 | 7:36pm EDT: Airlines are being urged to train more flight attendants to help prevent human trafficking, placing cabin crew on the front line of the fight against sexual exploitation and slavery. Airline leaders meeting in Mexico will be briefed Read more…
Wall Street Journal | By: Liyan Qi and Chao Deng | June 2, 2017 4:48 a.m. ET: China is facing increased capital-outflow pressures. China’s foreign-exchange regulator said it would launch a new system to monitor overseas spending using domestic bank cards, the latest move in a broader effort to curb Read more…
FRA – European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights: Mapping Member States’ legal frameworks. Protecting the public from genuine threats to security and safeguarding fundamental rights involves a delicate balance, and has become a particularly complex challenge in recent years. Terror attacks worldwide have triggered broad measures allowing intelligence services to Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Hayley Tsukayama | June 1 2017: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg faced sharp criticism Thursday during the company’s annual shareholders meeting about how the company operates, deals with violence and handles fake news. Shareholders submitted five proposals critical of the company’s top-heavy structure, as well Read more…
The New York Times | By: Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Kate Kelly | June 3, 2017: WASHINGTON — President Trump will lay out a vision this coming week for sharply curtailing the federal government’s funding of the nation’s infrastructure and calling upon states, cities and corporations to shoulder most of Read more…
Renewable Energy World / Sustainable Capital Finance | By: Maggie Parkhurst | May 30 2017: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been a hot topic for the past few years, with numerous Fortune 500 companies announcing aggressive goals relating to their clean energy usage. To many of these companies, transitioning their Read more…
Mining Weekly | By Keith Campbell | 2nd June 2017: JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – At last month’s International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, held at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in Pretoria, one of the very many topics addressed was the use of remote sensing, particularly Read more…
Gallup | By: Frank Newport | June 02 2017: President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the strongly negative reaction by some groups regarding that decision are focused mainly on trade-offs and questions about the data used in evaluating those Read more…