An anonymous reader writes "Version 1.4 of the Wayland protocol and Weston reference compositor have been released. The Wayland/Weston 1.4 release delivers on many features and includes promoting the sub-surface protocol to official Wayland, improved touch screen support, a crop/scale protocol within Weston, security improvements, and other fixes."

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An anonymous reader writes "TechCrunch is reporting on an interesting Gmail bug. Apparently, if you run a Google search for Gmail while logged in and click one of the top (and correct) results, it brings up a Compose window with an email address already filled in: the Hotmail account of a Fresno, CA man. He says he's been receiving hundreds every hour, most of which are blank, since yesterday. The article says the bug is related to the Gmail outage from earlier this afternoon."

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The prospect of genetically-modified purple tomatoes reaching the shelves has come a step closer, with large-scale production under way.

”Dagens Egypten är polariserat, fyllt av fruktan och hat.”

En lastbilschaufför blev i kväll påkörd i Kungsängen nordväst om Stockholm, troligen i samband med ett däckbyte.

Flera maskerade män rånade en restaurang i Gävle strax före klockan 20 i kväll.

eggboard writes "The Internet Archive has copies of Web pages corresponding to 378 billion URLs. It's working on several efforts, some of them quite recent, to help deter or assist with link rot, when links go bad. Through an API for developers, WordPress integration, a Chrome plug-in, and a JavaScript lookup, the Archive hopes to help people find at least the most recent copy of a missing or deleted page. More ambitiously, they instantly cache any link added to Wikipedia, and want to become integrated into browsers as a fallback rather than showing a 404 page."

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Joseph Kalite hacked to death by machete-wielding men as killing and looting continues in the capital Bangui.

Platon Lebedev, former oil tycoon's associate, released from jail after Russia's Supreme Court orders his early release.

Flera människor omkom i dag då ett blixtnedslag antände ett militärt ammunitionsförråd i staden Mbuji-Mayi i mellersta Kongo-Kinshasa.