Det amerikanska senaten godkänner Chuck Hagel som ny försvarsminister, skriver nyhetsbyrån Reuters.

Den multiresistenta tarmbakterien ESBL carba har upptäckts hos en patient på länssjukhuset Ryhov, rapporterar TV4 Nyheterna Jönköping.

New submitter mynameiskhan writes "Major internet service providers today will start monitoring the internet traffic to their customers' computers and will warn them if they download copyrighted materials using peer to peer network. The article says, 'A person will be given up to six opportunities to stop before the Internet provider will take more drastic steps, such as temporarily slowing their connection, or redirecting Internet traffic until they acknowledge they received a notice or review educational materials about copyright law.' Furthermore, if you appeal the warning you will be required to pay $35 to state your case. Have the ISPs have had enough of RIAA pestering, or are they siding with RIAA?"

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Efter köttfuskskandalen och avslöjandena om att färdigrätter innehållit hästkött har försäljningssiffrorna för frysta hamburgare rasat med 43 procent i Storbritannien.

Ännu sent i kväll finns ingen säker tid för när förhandlingarna i Bryssel är klara mellan EU-ländernas fiskeansvariga om den stora fiskereform EU-parlamentet nyligen godkänt.

En hästtränare utsatte hästar för elektriska stötar i en så kallad skrittmaskin.

Nerval's Lobster writes "The Apache Hadoop open-source framework specializes in running data applications on large hardware clusters, making it a particular favorite among firms such as Facebook and IBM with a lot of backend infrastructure (and a whole ton of data) to manage. So it'd be hard to blame Intel for jumping into this particular arena. The chipmaker has produced its own distribution for Apache Hadoop, apparently built 'from the silicon up' to efficiently access and crunch massive datasets. The distribution takes advantage of Intel's work in hardware, backed by the Intel Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Instructions (Intel AES-NI) in the Intel Xeon processor. Intel also claims that a specialized Hadoop distribution riding on its hardware can analyze data at superior speeds—namely, one terabyte of data can be processed in seven minutes, versus hours for some other systems. The company faces a lot of competition in an arena crowded with other Hadoop players, but that won't stop it from trying to throw its muscle around."

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New submitter jollyrgr3 writes "If William Shatner gets his wish, one of Pluto's two new moons will be named Vulcan. The two small moons were discovered recently, and the SETI Institute launched an online poll to let people choose names. Captain Kirk himself suggested the names Vulcan and Romulus. Vulcan was accepted as a candidate, and Shatner exhorted his Twitter followers to vote. Vulcan ended up winning by a landslide, taking 174,000 of the 450,000 total responses. The next highest was Cerberus at just shy of 100,000. The names still have to be approved by the International Astronomical Union, as they have the final say. Leonard Nimoy approves."

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En av Svenska Afghanistankommitténs (SAK) kliniker blev tidigare i februari ockuperad av en Natoledd Isaf-styrka, uppger SAK.