News Brief: South Korea Hacking Update, Highway Pileup, Cyprus, Quantum Computing
by Tony Longworth on March 22, 2013Leave a comment
- Starbucks CEO: We support marriage equality ,”and if you don’t like it, sell your stock.”
- Chicago plans to close dozens of schools to combat a billion dollar deficit. The closures effect up to 10% of Chicago area schools.
- An embarrassed South Korea admitted today that hacking attack on several banks and media companies systems was actually an inside job, not China .
- A 60 car pileup caused chaos, yesterday, on a Canadian Highway following a sudden snowstorm in Alberta. 100 people were injured, mostly minor, but one serious.
- The Eurozone is scrambling to contain a possible collapse of the Cypriot economy.
- Scottish independence referendum given firm date: 18 September, 2014.
- A Kuwaiti man who insulted the Emir on Twitter has had his prison sentence extended to five years
- The Northeast United States is about to be hit by a plague of locusts . Probably my fault somehow.
- A Quantum Leap forward in computing power : Lockheed Martin is about to commercially deploy a new computing system based on quantum mechanics.
- Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy under formal investigation for campaign funding fraud .
- China returns defecting soldiers back to North Korea .
- Anti-Taliban uprisings spread among Afghan Villages .
- Al-Qaeda in Northen Africa have beheaded a French hostage in Africa in retaliation for military action in Mali. Philippe Verdon, a French Geologist, has been held since his capture in November, 2011. French authorities are still seeking confirmation of Verdon’s death.
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