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Ungerns premiärminister Viktor Orban beskyller i en tidningsintervju EU-kommissionen för att sakna ”demokratisk legitimitet”.

Victory seems certain for current prime minister, despite wave of protests, economic problems and tension with the West.

New submitter dr_blurb writes "After reading about last year's hoax report 'Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage' I realized I was in fact already running a real live experiment measuring number skills: a site were you can solve Calcudoku number puzzles. I analyzed two years' worth of data, consisting of over 1 million solved puzzles. This included puzzles solved 'against the clock,' of three different sizes. For each size, Chrome users were the fastest solvers, Firefox users came second, and IE users were the slowest. The number of abandoned puzzles (started but never finished) was also significantly higher for IE users. Analysis shows that the differences are statistically significant: in other words, they did not happen by chance. I put up more details and some graphs, and also wrote a paper about it (PDF)."

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New accusations leveled against captain who has already been held up to condemnation and ridicule around the world.

Splinter group takes responsibility for wounding dozens of people in suicide assault on military base in Tamanrasset.

Lower house speaker criticises "flagrant interference" behind Cairo's decision to release NGO workers.

Söndagens ryska presidentval har redan startat i Fjärran östern.

Storbrand i femvåningshus. Boende evakuerade.

dsinc sends this quote from a Symantec report: "In 2011, dozens of Anonymous members who participated in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in support of Anonymous hacktivism causes were arrested. In these DDoS attacks, supporters using the Low Orbit Ion Cannon denial-of-service (DoS) tool would voluntarily include their computer in a botnet for attacks in support of Anonymous. In the wake Anonymous member arrests this week, it is worth highlighting how Anonymous supporters have been deceived into installing Zeus botnet clients purportedly for the purpose of DoS attacks. The Zeus client does perform DoS attacks, but it doesn’t stop there. It also steals the users' online banking credentials, webmail credentials, and cookies. The deception of Anonymous supporters began on January 20, 2012, the day of the FBI Megaupload raid."