The Cabinet Secretariat has reportedly introduced administrative scorecards for Secretaries in the Central government. This is the first time departments are being assessed on a set of quantifiable ...

Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA has begun cutting crude production because it is running out of storage capacity due to an ongoing US oil blockade that has reduced exports to zero, piling more ...

Beware these dangerous Windows LNK files. Update, June 9, 2025: This story, originally published on June 8, has been updated with a statement from Microsoft regarding the latest ongoing cyberattacks ...

Direct File, the Internal Revenue Service’s long-promised free tax filing software, might be at risk of being killed off by the Trump administration, but the code that made the service possible will ...

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 13: A sign for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seen outside its building on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Members of Elon Musk's Department of Government ...

More than 70 journals are trialling a publishing model called subscribe to open (S2O), in which libraries pay an annual subscription fee to make paywalled journals open access. The trial, set to start ...

Much of the focus in the oil market has been on the Middle East for months — but on Monday, attention was turning to North Africa, with reports that Libya’s eastern government had halted crude exports ...

The Japanese government is pushing ahead with a plan to make Japan’s publicly funded research output free to read. In June, the science ministry will assign funding to universities to build the ...

MOSCOW, May 23 (Reuters) - Russia, in a rare admission of oil overproduction, said overnight that it exceeded its OPEC+ production quota in April for "technical reasons", a surprise move that analysts ...