Aziz Ahmad jobbar som glassförsäljare och berättar att han tjänar omkring 100 afghani om dagen, vilket motsvarar knappt 15 kronor. En del av glassen han säljer kommer från Herat Ice-Cream.

En man som tvingats smuggla nästan 20 kilo cannabis döms av Malmö tingsrätt till 3,5 års fängelse.

En av Moderaternas riksdagsledamöter har polisanmälts för sexuellt ofredande av en kvinna, skriver expressen.

En okänd gärningsman avlossade i kväll minst tre skott mot fönster till en lägenhet i stadsdelen Hyllie i Malmö.

En man fördes till sjukhus efter att ha hittats skadad vid 20-tiden i kväll i området Tjärna Ängar i Borlänge.

Slashdot visited Fort Wayne, Indiana, during its 2013 Maker Faire. We brought back videos of R2D2 model makers in all their bleeping glory, Mad Sasquatch Rocketry launching rockets, and functioning home-made jet engines, which no Maker Faire should be without. Since Fort Wayne has a strong industrial history, it is not surprising that this Maker Faire had more industrial-scale exhibits than most maker-type events Slashdot has attended. The noise level in much of the event area was industrial scale, too, which is why this video sounds the way it does. But we love large, noisy machinery, not just computers so quiet you can't hear their fans (if, indeed, they *have* fans), so we're happy to enjoy some good Industrial Sound and check out some of Mark Phenicie's steampunk creations now and then.

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Just in time for the holiday season, and as expected, Apple has announced a thinner, lighter, faster iPad Air with a full-sized 9.7-inch Retina display, along with a similarly specced new iPad mini with Retina display.

 

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At a special event, Apple released OS X 10.9 Mavericks, dropping the bombshell that the operating system upgrade would be free.

 

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Moçambiques president Armando Guebuza och rebellrörelsen Renamos ledare Afonso Dhlakama tycktes villiga att starta en dialog efter att i dag ha träffat en oberoende medlare.

Miljöpartiet har flera knep för att få fart på användandet i Stockholm.

beerdragoon writes "One of Canada's biggest mobile and TV providers will soon begin collecting detailed information on usage patterns of its subscribers. Starting November 16th, Bell plans on using this information to provide targeted ads for subscribers. According to Bell this policy will allow customers 'to receive Internet advertising that's relevant to them rather than the random online advertising they're receiving now.' Customers have until the 16th to opt out of the targeted ads, but there doesn't appear to be a way to opt out of the data collection. Apparently this is not illegal, but it is certainly considered unethical by many."

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Kyle Jacoby writes "The NSA was right when it postulated that the mere knowledge of the existence of their program could weaken its ability to function. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which serve to mask the source and destination of data by routing it through a third-party server, have been a popular method for maintaining internet anonymity for the paranoid and prudent. However, the all-but-silent fall of secure email server Lavabit, and VPN provider CryptoSeal, have shown us just how pervasive the government's eye on our communications is. These companies chose to fold rather than to divulge customer data entrusted to them, which raises the million-dollar question: how many have chosen to remain open and silently hand over the keys to your data? Google has decided to put the private back in VPN by supporting uProxy, a project developed at the University of Washington with help from Brave New Software. Still using a VPN schema, their aim is to keep the VPN amongst friends (literally). Of course, you'll need a friend who is willing to let you route your net through their tubes. Their simple integration into Firefox and Chrome will lower the barrier, creating a decentralized VPN architecture that would make sweeping pen register orders more difficult, and would also make blocking VPNs a rather difficult task for countries like China, who block citizens' access to numerous websites. On a related note, when will the public finally demand that communications which pass encrypted through a third party still retain an reasonable expectation of privacy (rendering them pen register order-resistant)?"

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Perl module to automatically format columnar data.

Catmandu modules for working with MAB2 data.