WASHINGTON—Hackers working for the Chinese government compromised more than a dozen U.S. pipeline operators nearly a decade ago, the Biden administration revealed Tuesday while also issuing first-of-its-kind cybersecurity requirements on the pipeline industry.
This happened between 2011 and 2013, the report says, and was formerly classified—which may be even more concerning.
Participants in the 2020 Olympic Games will be subject to many COVID-19 rules. But social media posts and a news report falsely claim athletes will be sleeping on specially made, flimsy “anti-sex beds” to prevent intimacy and COVID-19 infection.
There's an article in the current issue of TIME (and on Apple News+ but not, seemingly, on the web) that lists The World's 100 Greatest Places.
I've been in eleven of them, and nine of those are in the U.S. Which seems like a disappointingly low score.
I've been close to several others, but not close enough for a cigar. So I think I really ought to travel more—or find more great stuff right where I am.
…built their airplane largely with spruce and muslin, wood that could have been used to build you a house and fabric that could have been used to clothe your children, or at least make flour sacks. They also used a gasoline powered engine, helping to kick off the climate-change crisis we find ourselves in.
But on balance, their project turned out pretty well.
And history is replete with explorers and adventurers who forged a way into the unknown on other people's money.
All this comes to mind with the current spate of sniping over Jeff Bezos' recent mini-trip into just-barely space. Yes, it's a little annoying to watch a billionaire pursue his private dreams with money that, as tax revenue, could have been used for all sorts of salutary things. (Or just as easily squandered on some pork-barrel project in Podunk.) But still. Maybe this is the start of something big.
Time will tell.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry criticized the decision on Monday as “a surrender to ongoing and aggressive pressure from extreme anti-Israel groups” and said the company was cooperating with “economic terrorism.”
“But humanity is not in a place where we can have that much power just accessible to anybody.”
The 546-yard course weaves its way around the food booths, then past the grandstand and Dole Building, turning for the homestretch between the barnyard and Roundhouse, with three different food checkpoints for participants to stop at mid-race.
And if you'd rather just eat, not run at all…well, that too.
"We have to begin to look at alternatives,” House Transportation Chair and bill sponsor Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) told POLITICO in the run-up to the bill's passage in June. "You can’t pave over the whole country."
Hey, congresscritters. I don't have a car. I don't need no highways. Why don't you just build me some decent railroads? I'm waiting.
