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Follow the sun | The Economist

Thu 14/04/2016 Piotr Geopolitics

Solar power is reshaping energy production in the developing world

Source: Follow the sun | The Economist

Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services

Fri 15/04/2016

TL;DR: short URLs produced by bit.ly, goo.gl, and similar services are so short that they can be scanned by brute force. Our scan discovered a large number of Microsoft OneDrive accounts with private documents. Many [...]

Disruption games: why are libertarians lining up with autocrats to undermine democracy?

Sun 19/11/2017

In the era of digital politics, an odd alliance has sprung up: anti-state campaigners and Moscow-backed nationalists are combining to disrupt liberal institutions Source: Disruption games: why are libertarians lining up with autocrats to undermine [...]

The Economist | South Korea’s working women: Of careers and carers

Sat 11/06/2016

The Economist | South Korea’s working women: Of careers and carers http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21700461-conservative-workplaces-are-holding-south-korean-women-back-careers-and-carers?frsc=dg%7Cd

20 minutes|More Germans leave Switzerland

Thu 28/04/2016

Well, the UDC is obtaining what it wants, on many levels: top professionals, from countries with full employment like Germany, leave because they can. Others go as soon as they can. So the only ones [...]

Is Hillary Clinton Good for Women? | Foreign Affairs

Wed 09/03/2016

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton transformed the way U.S. foreign-policy makers approach gender issues. But Clinton’s revolution in Washington produced only limited gains for women abroad, and her successors will have to confront the [...]