redletterdave writes "At next week's WWDC 2012 in San Francisco, Apple is expected to unveil new laptops, desktops, accessories, and software features for its Mac OS X platform. But on Friday afternoon, several pictures surfaced on Twitter showing banners released around Moscone West in San Francisco, saying 'iOS 6: The world's most advanced mobile operating system.'"

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What happens if someday the Internet goes down for all of NYC. How lost will everyone be?

Sju medlemmar av FN:s fredsbevarande styrka i Elfenbenskusten dödades i ett bakhåll.

Amnestys researcher tar sig in via hemliga vägar. SvD har pratat med en av dem.

En domstol i USA dömde på på fredagen jamaicanske knarkkungen Christopher ”Dudus” Coke till 23 års fängelse för narkotikabrott och misshandel.

Två personer på moped avlossade flera skott.

TheGift73 sends this excerpt from TorrentFreak: "With nearly 4 million downloads per episode, the HBO hit series Game of Thrones is the most pirated TV-show of the season. Worldwide hype combined with restricted availability are the key ingredients for the staggering number of unauthorized downloads. How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory complete the top three, albeit with significantly fewer downloads than the chart topper. ... While there are many reasons for people to download TV-shows through BitTorrent, airing delays and HBO's choice not to make it widely available online are two of the top reasons."

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Seven Nigerian peacekeepers killed in ambush in west of country, according to UN spokesman.

snydeq writes "After hearing objections from developers, Microsoft will offer a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 package for desktop application development after all. The company had previously announced that Express 2012 editions, which are free, platform-specific versions of the Visual Studio 2012 IDE, would be limited to Windows 8 Metro-style development as well as development for the Windows Azure cloud platform, Windows Phone, and Web applications. 'We heard from our community that developers want to have for Windows desktop development the same great experience and access to the latest Visual Studio 2012 features at the Express level. ... And it will enable developers working on open source applications to target existing and previous versions of Windows.'"

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Important but simple message to people with websites with feeds.

The browsers are one-by-one removing information about feeds from the user interface, so it's become harder for people to find your feed.

To compensate, you should make your feed easy to find in your web content.

It just struck me as I was looking for the feed on the Rootstrikers site. I started to do a View Source and realized that of course most people wouldn't think to do that, or necessarily know how to find the feed in the source.

So if you want people to know about your feed, make sure you're showing it to them.

Yoshihiko Noda angers anti-nuclear lobby with call for two reactors to be restarted to head off energy crisis.

Lack of deal to increase access casts shadow over upcoming Moscow meeting between Iran and six world powers.

It ends one point, one goal and one red card apiece in the Euro 2012 opener between hosts Poland and Greece.

Brottet: Svor högt på gatan.

Harperdog writes "Scott Kemp writes about the similarities between the nuclear arms race and the use of cyberweaponry for offensive purposes. As the article points out, offensive cyberwarfare leaves a nation's own citizenry vulnerable to attack as government agencies seek to keep weaknesses in operating systems (such as Windows) secret. Quoting: 'In the world of armaments, cyber weapons may require the fewest national resources to build. That is not to say that highly developed nations are not without their advantages during early stages. Countries like Israel and the United States may have more money and more talented hackers. Their software engineers may be more skilled and exhibit more creativity and critical thinking owing to better training and education. However, each new cyberattack becomes a template for other nations — or sub-national actors — looking for ideas.'"

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