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Tysk polis har gripit två misstänkta män sedan en ung kvinna fått allvarliga brännskador efter att ha utsatts för en syraattack i sitt hem i Hilde.

När kvinnan cyklade i ett bostadsområde i Kalmar i kväll blev hon jagad av ett stort vildsvin, skriver Östran.

tearmeapart writes "The teams at FreeBSD have reached another great achievement with FreeBSD 9.1, with improvements to the already fantastic zfs features, more VM improvements (helping bringing FreeBSD to the next generation of VMs), and improvements in speed to many parts of the network system. Support FreeBSD via the FreeBSD mall or download/upgrade FreeBSD from a mirror. Unfortunately, the torrent server is still down due to the previous security incident." And new submitter northar writes "The other day the NetBSD project released their first update to the 6.x series, 6.0.1. They also (rather discreetly) announced a fund drive targeting 60.000 USD before the end of 2012 in the release notes. They better get going if their donation page is anything like recently updated."

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very fast base to base conversion

Wrappers for Term::ReadLine's new event_loop model.

Release 2 of Marpa

An interface to the BackPAN index

Object-oriented interfaces for HTML.

ÖB svarar för första gången i klartext.

Övergreppen i Syrien tydliga.

Under dagen har tre laviner gått i Åre och en i Tegefjällsområdet, rapporterar lokala medier.

Location services can be useful and fun, but, depending on how paranoid ("cautious") you are, you might already dislike the idea of a social-network dashboard keeping track of where you are at a given moment. After all, bad guys can use computers, too. Now, Foursquare may up your level of caution just a bit: CNET reports that "Beginning January 28, 2013, users' 'full names' will be displayed across the check-in service and venue owners will have increased access to users' check-in data, the company announced in an e-mail sent to users late last night." Users, though, "will still have control of the name displayed by altering their 'full name' in their settings," and can opt out of the increased flow of data to business owners. For users' sake, I hope Foursquare doesn't go in for the "real names" fetish to the extent that both Google and Facebook have.