Oscar Wilde once wrote,

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Lord Darlington, Act III
The Austrians have just turned away.
Austria has announced that it will withdraw from CERN, Europe's premier high-energy physics laboratory... The announcement — just months before the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator — has left Austrian physicists stunned. "It is a black day for Austrian science," says Christian Fabjan, who heads the Institute for High Energy Physics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna... Fabjan says the timing of the decision — roughly six months before the beginning of the LHC's first science run — couldn't be worse. "We have invested heavily in the construction of the LHC," he says. "It's bizarre."
Also of concern:
Recent "phishing" attacks. Over the last few weeks there has been a marked increase in the number of attacks on CERN made by cybercriminals. Typical attacks arrive in the form of e-mail messages purporting to come from the CERN Help Desk, Mail Service, or some similarly official-sounding entity and suggest that there is a problem with your account, such as it being over-quota. They then ask you to click on a link or to reply and give your password. Please don’t!