Tågstrulet mellan Stockholm och Uppsala är inne på sin sjätte dag och har påverkat tiotusentals resenärer. De senaste åren har 260 olyckor, fel och tillbud rapporterats i Stockholms och Uppsala län. Facket är kritiskt och menar att det förebyggande ­underhållsarbetet inte fungerar. Enligt Trafikverket jobbar man ­aktivt för ett systematiskt underhåll, särskilt i storstäderna.

Arbetarna som bygger SVT:s VM-studio i Brasilien pressas hårt för att den ska bli färdig i tid. Det rapporterar Metro som har talat med en byggnadsarbetare som arbetar över 80 timmar i veckan för motsvarande 15 kronor i timmen. Det globala byggfacket säger att arbetsförhållanden är i strid med brasiliansk lag.

All trafik med Öresundståg stoppades i morse på grund av strejk. SvD reder ut vilka avgångar som påverkas och vad som gäller för köpta biljetter.

msm1267 (2804139) writes "A cryptanalysis of TrueCrypt will proceed as planned, said organizers of the Open Crypto Audit Project who announced the technical leads of the second phase of the audit and that there will be a crowdsourcing aspect to phase two. The next phase of the audit, which will include an examination of everything including the random number generators, cipher suites, crypto protocols and more, could be wrapped up by the end of the summer."

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En plan på att sänka växthusgasutsläppen i USA ger hopp om en vändning i landets klimatpolitik. Dessutom tillkännager Kanada sin önskan att samarbeta med USA i klimatfrågorna.

snydeq (1272828) writes "Insecure by design and trusted by default, embedded systems present security concerns that could prove crippling if not addressed by fabricators, vendors, and customers alike, InfoWorld reports. Routers, smart refrigerators, in-pavement traffic-monitoring systems, or crop-monitoring drones — 'the trend toward systems and devices that, once deployed, stubbornly "keep on ticking" regardless of the wishes of those who deploy them is fast becoming an IT security nightmare made real, affecting everything from mom-and-pop shops to power stations. This unpatchable hell is a problem with many fathers, from recalcitrant vendors to customers wary of — or hostile to — change. But with the number and diversity of connected endpoints expected to skyrocket in the next decade, radical measures are fast becoming necessary to ensure that today's "smart" devices and embedded systems don't haunt us for years down the line.'"

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itwbennett (1594911) writes "ActiveLink, which is 80% owned by Panasonic, is building heavy-duty strength-boosting suits that the company says can help workers shoulder the burden of heavy gear and protective clothing and could be useful at nuclear plants. 'Our powered suits could be used to assist and support remote-controlled robots in emergencies,' ActiveLink President Hiromichi Fujimoto said in an interview. 'Workers could wear the suits to carry PackBots to their deployment point and to work in low-radiation areas.'"

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A crowd of protesters set alight shops belonging to Coptic Christians in Luxor ahead of a controversial blasphemy trial.

A former Pentagon official tells AP news agency that Bowe Bergdahl, a Taliban captive for five years, was "delusional".