WHO findings on weed killer will not speed up EU safety review

WHO findings on weed killer will not speed up EU safety review

By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU regulators will not accelerate a decision on whether to restrict use of the world’s most widely used weed killer, even though it has been linked to cancer by the World Health Organization (WHO), officials said on Tuesday. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the WHO, said in March that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic to humans”. Glyphosate is the active

$2 trillion: That's what data breaches will cost us (apparently)

Data breaches could cost the global economy a lot of money by 2019 according to research carried out by Juniper. In its “Future of Cybercrime and Security” report, the analyst firm claimed that up to $2.1 trillion could be spent to clear out the mess caused by cyber-criminality. $2.1 trillion (around £1.35 trillion, or AU$2.6 trillion) is about four times the estimated damage that data breaches will cost in 2015,

Microsoft boosts investment in undersea cables to secure SaaS future

Microsoft has teamed up with half a dozen Asian telecommunication companies to deploy more than 13,000km of fibre optic cables that will link Hillsboro, Oregon in the west coast of the US, with Chongming, Nanhui, and Lingang on the Chinese mainland; Busan, South Korea; Maruyama, Japan; and finally Toucheng, Taiwan. In a blog post, Microsoft’s Managing Director, Network Enablement, David Crowley, noted that the company had been investing “significantly” in