En före detta FBI-anställd, Donald John Sachtleben, erkänner sig skyldig till att i fjol ha läckt hemliga uppgifter till nyhetsbyrån AP om en avvärjd terrorattack.

Hassan Nasrallah, ledare för shiamuslimska rörelsen Hizbollah i Libanon, riktade i dag en ”ärlig inbjudan” till muslimska länder som stöttar rebeller i Syrien att i stället stödja en politisk lösning av konflikten.

”Något måste göras åt den ökade diskrimineringen.”

En moped och en bil krockade i Skene i Västergötland på måndagskvällen.

Dputiger writes "Microsoft has unveiled both the Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro, updating the former with a Tegra 4 processor and the latter with a new Haswell chip. Among the additional improvements are a more comfortable kickstand with two height settings, 1080p displays for both devices, USB 3.0 support, better battery life, and a higher resolution camera. Pricing for the 32GB Surface without a Touch or Type Cover is set at $449"

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Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed tells Al Jazeera deadly mall siege is work of al-Qaeda, not al-Shabab.

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Bruce Schneier writes that lots of people discount the seriousness of the NSA's actions by saying that it's just metadata — after all the NSA isn't really listening in on everybody's calls — they're just keeping track of who you call. 'Imagine you hired a detective to eavesdrop on someone,' writes Schneier. 'He might plant a bug in their office. He might tap their phone.' That's the data. 'Now imagine you hired that same detective to surveil that person. The result would be details of what he did: where he went, who he talked to, what he looked at, what he purchased — how he spent his day. That's all metadata.' When the government collects metadata on the entire country, they put everyone under surveillance says Schneier. 'Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.'"

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En tysk domstol avslog i dag ett överklagande från den brittiske biskopen Richard Williamson, som dömdes till böter i Tyskland för att ha förnekat Förintelsen i en SVT-intervju 2009.

En läkare som ordinerat morötter som bot för en patients svinkoppor och kaffelavemang till ett barn med eksem får nu kritik av Hälso- och sjukvårdens ansvarsnämnd, rapporterar Helsingborgs Dagblad.

coondoggie writes "With an eye toward letting drones share the nation's common airspace, the Air Force has set out to find the technology that will let unmanned aircraft sense and avoid other airplanes in flight. The ability to sense and avoid — common on all manned aircraft that fly the national airspace — is one of the trickier issues for drones which do not support such technology. It will be a major hurdle to jump as drone vendors and others press for common drone access to national airspace."

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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a recent 56-page decision (PDF) in Capitol Records v. Vimeo, LLC, a federal court in Manhattan found Vimeo to be covered by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, rejecting Capitol Records' arguments that it was not entitled to the statute's "safe harbor". However, Vimeo is not yet out of the woods in this particular case, as the Court found factual issues — requiring a trial — as to 10 of the videos on the question of whether they were uploaded at the direction of Vimeo users, and as to 55 of the videos whether Vimeo had actual knowledge, or red flag knowledge, as the existence of an infringement."

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Scientists have said they are certain that greenhouse gases from human activities are heating the planet, despite a global pause in rising temperatures