80 bomber och 29 skjutvapen funna i en underjordisk betongbunker.

Vad som helst kan hända nu, skriver Bitte Hammargren.

En chef i Kalix kommun sextrakasserade en kvinna genom sms och telefonsamtal.

The Mister Purple writes "There is a small initiative underway to combat Islamic militant recruiting on the Internet... by trolling them. Quoting the article: 'The program, called Viral Peace, seeks to occupy the virtual space that extremists fill, one thread or Twitter exchange at a time. Shahed Amanullah, a senior technology adviser to the State Department and Viral Peace's creator, tells Danger Room he wants to use "logic, humor, satire, [and] religious arguments, not just to confront [extremists], but to undermine and demoralize them." Think of it as strategic trolling, in pursuit of geopolitical pwnage.' So, does this mean that I'm promoting peace when I post YouTube comments?"

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Several readers sent word that Microsoft has selected a release date for Windows 8: October 26th. Steven Sinofsky made the announcement today at the company's annual sales meeting. The new version of the operating system will be sent to manufacturers next month, giving them plenty of time to prepare for general availability.

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benfrog writes "Facebook has lost what (by the standards of their userbase) is a modest number of users over the last six months, which is perhaps one of the causes of a fall in their stock price. In the meantime, a study shows that Google+ users are more satisfied with the site than Facebook users, who are (understandably) upset about the number of recent UI changes, the amount of advertising, and other elements, according to a statement accompanying the study. Figures also show dramatic growth in Google+ usage."

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Well the Knicks had something, and let it go.

I think next year I'll either be a Houston Rockets fan or just keep the fond memories of NY basketball in 2012. I was glad to get to go to one of the Linsanity games at the Garden, with three friends. The Knicks beat the Mavericks at the Garden, 104-97.

Read the NY Times account for a sense of the moment.

Jeremy Lin enters the pantheon of NY sports folklore.

No matter how the rest of his career turns out, he'll always have a place in our hearts. Alongside such great characters as Mookie Wilson, Casey Stengel, Marv Throneberry. And there's a little Jackie Robinson in there too.

Maybe it's good that we get to close the book on Jeremy Lin as a Knick, now -- before the story becomes more mundane and less heroic. Somehow it's gotta be good or it would be just plain heartbreaking sad.

En villa på Linnégatan i centrala Halmstad brann kraftigt under kvällen.

Amerikanska astronomer har upptäckt vad de tror är den hittills tidigaste spiralgalaxen i det tidiga universum.

En tjurkalv fick avlivas sedan den genomborrats av en metallpil.

Nerval's Lobster writes "In keeping with Microsoft's 'all-in' strategy with regard to the cloud, Office 2013 incorporates a good deal of cloud functionality: SkyDrive is now the default storage selection for documents, for example, and users' work is synced between devices connected to the Web. In conjunction with that, Microsoft is now offering a 'Cloud App Model' that incorporates Web standards, meant for developers interested in building apps that bring functionality into Office and SharePoint. The toolset for building within this 'Cloud App Model' is codenamed 'Napa.' Among the potential uses: developers can build mail apps for Office, which add content and functionality to Outlook items based on activation rules, content apps for Excel, which add content and functionality to Excel documents, and task pane apps for Office, which add functionality to Excel and Word documents in a task pane adjacent to the document."

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I'd like to propose a new acronym. TIJABP.

This. Is. Just. A. Blog. Post.

In other words, this is not the US Constitution or the Declaration of Independence.

Or the Treaty of Versailles or even legally binding.

It's not Hey Jude or Beethoven's 9th.

Not Catcher In The Rye or Annie Hall.

And it's definitely not the 10th inning of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. (Yo Mookie!)

It's just a blog post, so read it that way.

Twas written quickly, by one (busy) person, who then moved on to something else.

Thanks for the heads-up to our reader Bill, who pointed out that Snort 2.9.3 is just released, details are here ==http://blog.snort.org/2012/07/snort-2930-has-been-released.html
A couple of new features, and lots of changes to existing ones, the release notes are well worth the read !
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Rob VandenBrink

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