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Polisen har gripit en 42-årig man som misstänks för mord vid en campingplats i Sundbyberg i närheten av Solvalla travbana. Den 16 april upptäckte en polispatrull en knivskadad man i en bil som skulle kontrolleras vid campingplatsen. Han hade skador i bröstet och avled senare.

jones_supa (887896) writes "Neowin reports how Microsoft made a rare weekend post on its Security Response Center blog to announce an advisory that affects all currently supported versions of Internet Explorer (versions 6 to 11). The issue is based on a newly discovered exploit that could be used against the web browser. The vulnerability exists in the way that IE accesses an object in memory that has been deleted or has not been properly allocated. Memory may be corrupted in a way that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. Microsoft is aware of 'limited, targeted attacks' that have used the exploit. IE 10 and 11 are protected against attacks using this exploit if they have their Enhanced Protected Mode turned on. Also, PCs that have either the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.1 or the EMET 5.0 Technical Preview installed are also secured against this security hole. Microsoft will take the appropriate action to protect its customers by delivering a security update."

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En man skadades svårt under ett motionslopp för cyklister i Ekerö utanför Stockholm vid lunchtid på söndagen. Mannen var tillsammans med en grupp på omkring 60 andra cyklister på en väg vid Skå Edeby flygfält när han krockade med en mötande bil, skriver dn.se.

Den sydafrikanske fredspristagaren och förre ärkebiskopen Desmond Tutu lägger en bredsida mot det rådande politiska klimatet i Sydafrika.

Sänkt pensionärsskatt - som betalas av dem som tjänar över 60 000 kronor i månaden föreslog nyligen Magdalena Andersson, ekonomisk-politisk talesperson för Socialdemokraterna.

Death toll from the disease reaches 102, spreading panic across the kingdom.

First time accepted submitter Parseval (3632761) writes "The NSA and GCHQ need mathematicians in order to function — they are some of the biggest employers of mathematicians in the world. This New Scientist article by a mathematician describes some of the math behind mass surveillance, and calls on other mathematicians to refuse to cooperate with the NSA/GCHQ while they continue to surveil the entire population. From the article: 'Mathematicians seldom face ethical questions. We enjoy the feeling that what we do is separate from the everyday world. As the number theorist G. H. Hardy wrote in 1940: "I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world." That idea is now untenable. Mathematics clearly has practical applications that are highly relevant to the modern world, not least internet encryption.'"

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First time accepted submitter Parseval (3632761) writes "The NSA and GCHQ need mathematicians in order to function — they are some of the biggest employers of mathematicians in the world. This New Scientist article by a mathematician describes some of the math behind mass surveillance, and calls on other mathematicians to refuse to cooperate with the NSA/GCHQ while they continue to surveil the entire population. From the article: 'Mathematicians seldom face ethical questions. We enjoy the feeling that what we do is separate from the everyday world. As the number theorist G. H. Hardy wrote in 1940: "I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world." That idea is now untenable. Mathematics clearly has practical applications that are highly relevant to the modern world, not least internet encryption.'"