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Ej bindande resolution röstades igenom.

Tre tunisiska journalister ska ställas inför rätta för att ha förolämpat allmän moral.

Restaurangpriserna sjönk en bråkdel.

En man från Nyköping döms till två och ett halvt års fängelse för grovt bokföringsbrott och grovt skattebrott.

Muslim Brotherhood says it may review its 1979 peace deal with Israel if US cuts aid to Egypt over recent NGO dispute.

Two sets of researchers revealed that insufficiently random choices of the prime numbers from which encryption keys are derived for Web site SSL/TLS certificates mean that the private parts of the keys can be derived. Fortunately, it's not a flaw in an algorithm, and seems to affect only a small number of sites. Read the whole explanation in Glenn Fleishman's account at Boing Boing.

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Porträtt av al-Assad. Tvivel om vem som har kommandot.

ananyo writes with this snippet from Nature (for which this earlier Nature article is also background): "'The courthouse in L'Aquila, Italy, yesterday hosted a highly anticipated hearing in the trial of six seismologists and one government official indicted for manslaughter over their reassurances to the public ahead of a deadly earthquake in 2009. .... During the hearing, the former head of the Italian Department of Civil Protection turned from key witness into defendant, and a seismologist from California criticized Italy's top earthquake experts.' Lalliana Mualchin, former chief seismologist for the Department of Transportation in California, criticized the Italian analysis, which he says was based on a poor model. If the court agrees with Mualchin, the defendants could face up to 12 years in jail."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

General assembly passes resolution calling for president to abide by Arab League plan, as violence continues.

Den 36-årige man som rymde i bara strumplästen från arresten i Ljungby i går fick en kort tid i frihet.

Sportlovsfirare och andra som åker skoter på isarna måste vara extra försiktiga.

Lucas123 writes "A new study by the University of California and Microsoft shows that NAND flash memory experiences significant performance degradation as die sizes shrink in size. Over the next dozen years latency will double as the circuitry size shrinks from 25 nanometers today, to 6.5nm, the research showed. Speaking at the Usenix Conference on File and Storage Technologies in San Jose this week, Laura Grupp, a graduate student at the University of California, said tests of 45 different types of NAND flash chips from six vendors using 72nm to 25nm lithography techniques showed performance degraded across the board and error rates increased as die sizes shrunk. Triple-Level NAND performed the worst, followed by Multi-Level Cell NAND and Single-Level Cell. The researchers said MLC NAND-based SSDs won't be able to go beyond 4TB and TLC-based SSDs won't be able to scale past 16TB because of the performance degradation, so it appears the end of the road for SSDs will be 2024."