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Canada government websites taken down in cyber attack

June 17, 2015 creative binary-code, cabinet, code-on-man, general-website, government, intelligence, man-holding, picture-shows, treasury, twitter

Several Canadian government websites and servers were taken down in a cyber attack on Wednesday, the government said, with the hacking group Anonymous taking responsibility in what it said was retaliation for a new anti-terrorism law passed by Canada's lawmakers. The general website for government services, canada.ca, as well as the site of Canada's spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), were among those affected.

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India IT behemoths revamp culture to attract young talent, battle start-ups

June 17, 2015 creative 147-billion, 1990s, binary-code, code-on-man, holding-coding, india, indian, man-holding, outsourcing, the-outsourcing, treasury, twitter

By Nivedita Bhattacharjee MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s oldest and most distinguished IT firms are doing what would have been almost sacrilegious a few years ago – holding coding marathons to develop innovative fixes and deploying “commando” units to resolve clients’ IT woes within hours. Infosys , Wipro and other Indian IT giants, which rose to prominence during the outsourcing boom in the 1990s and 2000s, have struggled to keep pace with mushrooming start-ups. Client demands are similarly changing in India’s $147 billion IT outsourcing industry.

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U.S. visa system not expected to be on-line before next week: State Department

June 17, 2015 creative bureau, clock, consular, indian, man-holding, next-week, outsourcing, state-department, the-clock, treasury, twitter

The U.S. State Department does not expect to resolve a technical problem affecting travel visas before next week, a spokesman said on Wednesday

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A third of world’s aquifers are being sucked dry: NASA data

June 17, 2015 creative california, chris-arsenault, man-holding, rome, the-clock, twitter, university, water-resources

By Chris Arsenault ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Human water use is sucking dry around a third of the world’s largest underground water basins at an alarming rate, with potentially risky consequences for farmers and other consumers, researchers said. Eight of the planet’s 37 biggest aquifers are classified as “overstressed” because they have almost no new water flowing in to offset usage, according to two studies from the University of California based on NASA satellite data