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Kunde ha blivit Europas högsta byggnad. Men Moskva har redan byggt högre.

Den nordirländska polisen ska utreda de nu 40 år gamla ”Bloody Sunday”-morden, då tretton obeväpnade demonstranter sköts ihjäl av brittiska fallskärmssoldater under en protestmarsch för medborgerliga rättigheter 1972.

Mentally unstable homeless man killed for allegedly burning pages of the Quran in Punjab city of Bahawalpur.

Foreign minister says his country is worried that extremists could threaten the stability of the entire region.

Widely expected quarter-percentage point cut intends to make both businesses and consumers borrow and spend more money.

Särskilda skatter för världens miljardärer, på koldioxidutsläpp, på valutaväxling och på finansiella transaktioner är några av de åtgärder FN efterlyser för att få ihop mer pengar till världens fattiga länder.

An anonymous reader writes "Last year, Japan criminalized virus creation and just saving a virus on the own computer. According to Yomiuri Shimbun, Kyoto police have arrested a 13-year-old (Japanese language original), second grade of junior high school student from Tokyo, for allegedly created a computer shutdown virus and operating an exchange board of hackers. Kyoto police also arrested 23-year-old construction worker for allegedly teaching a how to make a virus on their board and saved a virus on his computer."

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Widely expected quarter-percentage point cut intends to make both businesses and consumers borrow and spend more money.

Mentally unstable homeless man killed for allegedly burning pages of the Quran in Punjab city of Bahawalpur.

Foreign minister says his country is worried that extremists could threaten the stability of the entire region.

Security firm Kaspersky is reporting that a Trojan horse application called “Find and Call” somehow made it past Apple’s App Store approval process and was downloaded by a number of users before Apple woke up and pulled it. A similar piece of malware was also posted to — and pulled from — Google Play’s Android marketplace. Needless to say, if you downloaded this app but haven’t tried it yet, delete it immediately, before it can steal your contacts and spam them with SMS text messages. Clearly, Apple’s approval team blew it here, but at least they were able to pull the app fairly quickly. Whether the company will go further in removing the app from devices remains to be seen.

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Så viktigt är det för PR-folk att knyta kontakter.

skipkent tips a story at Wired's Danger Room, according to which "Pentagon-funded researchers have come up with a new plan for busting leakers: Spot them by how they search, and then entice the secret-spillers with decoy documents that will give them away. Computer scientists call it it 'Fog Computing' — a play on today's cloud computing craze. And in a recent paper for Darpa, the Pentagon's premiere research arm, researchers say they've built 'a prototype for automatically generating and distributing believable misinformation and then tracking access and attempted misuse of it. We call this "disinformation technology."'"