Source: The Register
AOL’s sale of ICQ messaging software to Russian firm Digital Sky Technologies might yet be blocked by US authorities, which fear losing access to transcripts from the criminal fraternity’s favoured messaging product.
AOL sold ICQ for $187.5m to DST back in April – a pittance compared to the $400m it paid for the [...]
Russia needs “to develop offensive weapons systems” to counter US missile defences and maintain the strategic balance, PM Vladimir Putin says.
Otherwise, the United States would feel “completely protected” and able to “do whatever they want”.
The US this year dropped controversial plans for missile defence bases in the Czech Republic and Poland, but said it would develop [...]
It’s emerged that virulent H5N1 bird flu was sent out by accident from an Austrian lab last year and given to ferrets in the Czech Republic before anyone realised. As well as the risk of it escaping into the wild, the H5N1 got mixed with a human strain, which might have spawned a hybrid that [...]
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Source: The Times of India
It’s emerged that virulent H5N1 bird flu was sent out by accident from an Austrian lab last year and given to ferrets in the Czech Republic before anyone realised. As well as the risk of it escaping into the wild, the H5N1 got mixed with a human strain, which might [...]
