FN kan tvingas skära ner på matransonerna till fyra miljoner människor som lever i det krigshärjade Syrien med 40 procent i oktober på grund av bristande finansiering. Detta trots att FN:s organ för koordinering av humanitära insatser, Ocha, nu har bättre tillgång till utsatta områden, enligt en högt uppsatt biståndschef på FN.

Säkerhetspolis i Australien genomför razzior mot hem i nordvästra Sydney och Brisbane i vad som beskrivs som den största anti-terroroperationen i landets historia, skriver the Daily Telegraph.

Finansborgarrådet Sten Nordin (M) tänker inte ställa upp som borgarråd i Stockholm, skriver Dagens Nyheter. Beslutet kommer som en konsekvens av valförlusten i Stockholm där de rödgröna nu tar över.

Minst tre för tidigt födda spädbarn på neonatalavdelningen i Lund har smittats av multiresistenta MRSA-bakterier, meticillinresistenta gula stafylokocker, skriver Sydsvenskan på nätet.

itwbennett (1594911) writes "The use of forced labor is so prevalent in the Malaysian electronics manufacturing industry that there is hardly a major brand name that isn't touched by the illegal practice, according to a report funded by the U.S. Department of Labor and undertaken by Verité, a nonprofit organization focused on labor issues. The two-year study surveyed more than 500 migrant workers at around 200 companies in Malaysia's IT manufacturing sector and found one in three were working under conditions of forced labor."

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VPN app fixes issue with custom DNS settings, improves reliability on slow networks. (Free, 23.7 MB)

 

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The Apple TV has been updated with a sleek new look and the introduction of Apple’s recently acquired Beats Music service.

 

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Att vara staden i den absoluta mitten av Storbritannien är populärt. Så populärt att flera olika städer hävdar att just de har äran. Men om skottarna röstar ja till självständighet på torsdag tvingas de alla ge upp titeln till fördel för High Ercall i grevskapet Shropshire, enligt det brittiska lantmäteriet Ordnance Survey (OS). Den absoluta mitten kommer egentligen ligga i en åker precis utanför byn, skriver BBC.

Att vara staden i den absoluta mitten av Storbritannien är populärt. Så populärt att flera olika städer hävdar att just de har äran. Men om skottarna röstar ja till självständighet på torsdag tvingas de alla ge upp titeln till fördel för High Ercall i grevskapet Shropshire, enligt det brittiska lantmäteriet Ordnance Survey (OS). Den absoluta mitten kommer egentligen ligga i en åker precis utanför byn, skriver BBC.

mrspoonsi points out this BBC story about an eBay breach that was directing users to a spoof site. "eBay has been compromised so that people who clicked on some of its links were automatically diverted to a site designed to steal their credentials. The spoof site had been set up to look like the online marketplace's welcome page. The firm was alerted to the hack on Wednesday night but removed the listings only after a follow-up call from the BBC more than 12 hours later. One security expert said he was surprised by the length of time taken. 'EBay is a large company and it should have a 24/7 response team to deal with this — and this case is unambiguously bad,' said Dr Steven Murdoch from University College London's Information Security Research Group. The security researcher was able to analyze the listing involved before eBay removed it. He said that the technique used was known as a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack."

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