Concern Over Colin Powell’s Hacked Emails Becomes a Fear of Being Next

WASHINGTON — A panicked network anchor went home and deleted his entire personal Gmail account. A Democratic senator began rethinking the virtues of a flip phone. And a former national security official gave silent thanks that he is now living on the West Coast.The digital queasiness has settled heavily on the nation’s capital and its secretive political combatants this week as yet another victim, former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, fell prey to the embarrassment of seeing his personal musings distributed on the internet and highlighted in news reports.“There but for the grace of God go all of us,” said Tommy Vietor, a former National Security Council spokesman for President Obama who now works in San Francisco. He said thinking about his own email exchanges in Washington made him cringe, even now.

How a group of industry veterans rescued the National Videogame Arcade

In August it looked like game over. The National Videogame Arcade, a fascinating institution that opened in March 2015 to promote the cultural and economic significance of games, was facing closure. Although the large building in Nottingham’s creative quarter attracted plenty of visitors with its mix of classic arcade machines, specialist interactive installations and events, it was not turning a profit. Meanwhile there were 40 staff to pay and a large rented building in central Nottingham to maintain. Over the summer, directors Iain Simons and Jonathan Smith made the decision to call in an insolvency firm.

“It became horribly clear, horribly suddenly, that we weren’t going to be able to pay salaries,” says Simons, who has been creative director of the GameCity festival, whoch spawned the NVA, since it began a decade ago. “We sat down with everyone individually and told them. We asked everyone if they would work for deferred payment in order for us to get a plan together. This was in the middle of the summer season, our busiest time – and every single member of staff came back to work. We stayed open seamlessly while this all took place; the only reason we’ve been able to survive is because the staff cared about it so much.”