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BBC: Americas Obama promotes infrastructure plan US President Barack Obama appeals for increased private investment in infrastructure, saying it will create jobs and boost the US economy. 29 Mar 2013 at 12:37pm 'HIV risk' for US dentist's patients Health officials in the US state of Oklahoma warn 7,000 patients their dentist may have exposed them to HIV and hepatitis, urging them to get tested. 29 Mar 2013 at 9:26am
Have you ever wondered about what life is like for a professional U.S. government eavesdropper? Well, you’re in luck. This month the National Security Agency (NSA) declassified 23 years’ worth of issues of “Cryptolog,” the newsletter written by and for the code-breakers, linguists, and computer scientists at the U.S. government’s most secretive intelligence organization. The issues span from 1974 to 1997. One article, from 1997, predicted a coming “cyber war,” complete with “worms, logic bombs, trojan horses” that could be “extremely destructive.” Other pieces introduced NSA employees to the inside workings of the agency’s own television network.