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En 43-årig man åtalades på torsdagen för bombattentatet i Omagh på Nordirland 1998, den dödligaste attacken under konflikten där. Han åtalas för morden på de 29 personer som dog när en 230 kilo tung hemmagjord bomb detonerade i stadens centrum.

EU kommer att övervaka det kommande egyptiska presidentvalet. Det meddelar EU:s utrikespolitiske representant Catherine Ashton och den egyptiske utrikesministern, Nabil Fahmy, i ett skriftligt uttalande.

Regeringen vill att flera tidsbegränsade lagar om hemliga tvångsmedel ska vara kvar, bland annat gäller det buggning.

På åtta år har den borgerliga alliansen höjt snusskatten med 290 procent. Samtidigt har skatten på cigaretter bara höjts med 50 procent trots att regeringen motiverar sina skattehöjningar med att man vill "främja folkhälsan". ”Det är inte av omsorg om folkhälsan som man höjer på det här viset”, säger tidigare cancerläkare Lars Erik Rutqvist som nu arbetar på Swedish Match.

An anonymous reader writes "I recently posted this article with a few vizualizations and a bit of analysis about the risks associated with open data sets. Thought it might be of interest of Slashdot readers: 'This article is about a publicly available dataset of bicycle journey data that contains enough information to track the movements of individual cyclists across London, for a six month period just over a year ago.'"

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Addresses a handful of bugs. ($49.99 new, free update, 45 MB)

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A brand-new version of the powerful calculator brings over features from iOS, as well as the capability to sync to its iOS counterpart through iCloud. ($9.99 new, free update)

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Maintenance release brings a number of tweaks and bug fixes. ($299 new, free update, 571.1 MB)

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Both text editors squash a variety of bugs. ($49.99/free new, free updates, 13/9.4 MB)

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TechDirt has a story calling Dropbox "tone-deaf" for adding Condoleezza Rice to their board of directors, given that she played a central role in creating the surveillance state that we now find ourselves in. (Yesterday Ed Bott said the same on Twitter. I argued with him. A more detailed version of the argument follows.)

Tone-deaf is an interesting idea. Literally it means that someone can't carry a tune. It's an integrity issue. Dropbox seems to be a company we can trust to fight the government on our behalf. Hiring Rice seems contrary to the interests of its users.

But it's only tone-deaf if you were expecting a different tune. I think it's refreshingly honest and open. It tells the users that it's very important for Dropbox to have a way to communicate with governments at a very high level. Someone has to rep the company at meetings that are now taking place regularly where new rules are being created to govern the Internet. Private rules that we may not know anything about.

The net never was as open and liberal as it seemed to the users. That's what we learned from Snowden's leaks. Every large tech company is quickly becoming part of the governmental structure of the world. Eric Schmidt, for example, travels with a former aide to the US Secretary of State. I'm sure at times when he meets with world leaders he's carrying messages for our government and vice versa.

That's the reality. Dropbox could have tried to hide it from users, but they chose not to. That appears to be in harmony with other rich tech companies. We may not like the song they're singing, but it's not tone-deaf.

Tony Arnold has some tips on cleaning up your projects with Xcode 5. One is to delete the Frameworks group — link frameworks automatically.

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has staged a minor coup over coalition energy policy, says Roger Harrabin.

UNESCO warns of an education crisis as the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals draws closer.