The New York Times is considering options to create an in-house submission system that could make it easier for would-be leakers to provide large files to the paper.

FORBES: The Times Plans an 'EZ Pass Lane for Leakers'

There is little sign lawmakers and advocacy groups on either side of the debate are willing to alter their stances, though room for agreement may exist in some areas, such as requiring states to increase their submission of mental-health records to the background-check system used to screen people buying guns from federally licensed dealers.

WSJ: Biden Meets With Gun-Safety Groups

With the CRU-email situation, the best evidence is that they were leaked through incompetence: evidence suggests that someone (probably a system administrator based on the file structure) left a giant file prepared for FOIA submission on an open website, and it was snatched up and parceled out.

FORBES: Political Graft Shrouds Climate Debate

The training provided the participants with the overview of the grid network, the architecture of the gLite middleware, an introduction to job submission, data management and grid workflows, the concept of virtual organizations and the virtual organisation management system, as well as practical exercises on the use of gLite on the GILDA testbed.

UNESCO: Education