En stor räddningsinsats sattes i gång strax före klockan 22 i vattnen utanför Ekerö, väster om Stockholm.

En stor räddningsinsats sattes i gång strax före klockan 22 i vattnen utanför Ekerö, väster om Stockholm.

Justin Driscoll explains how he deals with UIView subclasses and Swift properties:

Now the compiler’s off your back and and you can move on with your life, or at least what’s left of it after choosing software development as a career.

Vita huset drabbades av ett intrång i torsdags och tvingades försegla fastigheten av säkerhetsskäl. Den kortväxta inkräktaren identifierades dock snabbt - en bebis hade lyckats klämma sig in genom grindarna.

Jihadistgruppen Islamiska staten har inom loppet av två månader ritat om den politiska kartan i Irak – bokstavligen. Ett utbrett missnöje med regeringen har underlättat IS brutala framfart i norra Irak. Men även en utstuderad politisk strategi, menar experter.

An anonymous reader writes Have you heard of personalized postage stamps? You pay the value of the stamps plus a fee and the post office prints official stamps usable for postage which show (almost) anything you can put into a jpeg file. An Austrian Tibet supporter found out what 'almost' means. He submitted a picture of the Dalai Lama with the text 'His Holiness the Dalai Lama,' but the Austrian post office refused to produce these stamps. Stampnews and the Neue Zuercher Zeitung (autotranslation) reported that this had been due to pressure from the Chinese embassy in Vienna. Now there is a video showing how visual cryptography has been used to get around this attempt at censorship [caution: organ music] .

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

An anonymous reader writes Have you heard of personalized postage stamps? You pay the value of the stamps plus a fee and the post office prints official stamps usable for postage which show (almost) anything you can put into a jpeg file. An Austrian Tibet supporter found out what 'almost' means. He submitted a picture of the Dalai Lama with the text 'His Holiness the Dalai Lama,' but the Austrian post office refused to produce these stamps. Stampnews and the Neue Zuercher Zeitung (autotranslation) reported that this had been due to pressure from the Chinese embassy in Vienna. Now there is a video showing how visual cryptography has been used to get around this attempt at censorship [caution: organ music] .

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

An anonymous reader writes "The dam break which flooded toxic mining sediments into Quesnel Lake, British Columbia will affect the food web of a very important fisheries ecosystem for many years to come. Here is the challenge; I am asking the people here to come up with suggestions for new and inventive ways to monitor and or help mitigate this horrendous ecological disaster. A large portion of a huge world famous food and sport fishery is at stake. The challenges ahead will take thinking outside the box and might not just be effectively done by conventional means." What would you do, and what kind of budget would it take?

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

An anonymous reader writes "The dam break which flooded toxic mining sediments into Quesnel Lake, British Columbia will affect the food web of a very important fisheries ecosystem for many years to come. Here is the challenge; I am asking the people here to come up with suggestions for new and inventive ways to monitor and or help mitigate this horrendous ecological disaster. A large portion of a huge world famous food and sport fishery is at stake. The challenges ahead will take thinking outside the box and might not just be effectively done by conventional means." What would you do, and what kind of budget would it take?

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Polisens dödsskjutning av en obeväpnad tonåring i en förort i amerikanska delstaten Missouri i lördags har lett till upprörda stämningar i området, som har huvudsakligen svart befolkning.

En 26-årig mc-förare skadades svårt i en olycka i centrala Västerås strax efter klockan 19 på söndagen.

En 26-årig mc-förare skadades svårt i en olycka i centrala Västerås strax efter klockan 19 på söndagen.

Rallies have been held in Tripoli and Benghazi, both for and against the new parliament.

Rallies have been held in Tripoli and Benghazi, both for and against the new parliament.