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Den regionala regeringen i Katalonien i Spanien har beslutat att inte genomföra någon omröstning om att omvandla regionen till en självständig stat.

Skolan och förskolan behöver 150 000 nya lärare inom tio år enligt Sveriges kommuner och landsting (SKL), 40 000 fler än en prognos för två år sedan. Men någon lärarbrist tror inte SKL på:

Mr D from 63 points out that watching Netflix in Ultra high-definition is going to cost you a little extra per month. A higher-resolution, 4K stream from Netflix will cost more. The company has boosted its monthly price for streaming ultrahigh-definition television and movies to $11.99 per month, citing the higher expenses associated with that content. In May, Netflix announced that its original series, such as House of Cards, would be available to stream in the 4K format, which offers roughly four times the resolution of current high-def TVs.

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Som 15-åring sköt Kjell-Ingvar Svensson sin första älg.

En 20-årig man från Alvesta dömdes på måndagen till ett års fängelse för våldtäkt på en jämnårig kvinna. Mannen ska dessutom betala 115 000 kronor i skadestånd, uppger Smålandsposten på nätet.

First time accepted submitter Dadoo writes By now, everyone who reads Slashdot regularly has seen the XKCD comic discussing how to choose a more secure password, but at least one security researcher rejects that theory, asserting that password managers are the most important technology people can use to keep their accounts safe. He says, "In this post, I'm going to make the following arguments: 1) Choosing a password should be something you do very infrequently. 2) Our focus should be on protecting passwords against informed statistical attacks and not brute-force attacks. 3) When you do have to choose a password, one of the most important selection criteria should be how many other people have also chosen that same password. 4) One of the most impactful things that we can do as a security community is to change password strength meters and disallow the use of common passwords."

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Lax- och torskkvoterna minskar i Östersjön - om än inte så mycket som Sverige hade velat.

Ett ämne som finns i broccoli lindrar symtomen vid autism. Forskarna hoppas nu på den första behandlingen av tillståndet.

En 26-årig man som arbetade med att fälla träd i Vallsta utanför Bollnäs omkom på måndagsförmiddagen i en olycka, uppger Gävleborgspolisen på sin hemsida.

schwit1 writes After twenty-two months in orbit, on its second space mission, the Air Force plans to bring the X-37B back to Earth this coming Tuesday. From the article: "The exact time and date will depend on weather and technical factors, the Air Force said in a statement released on Friday. The X-37B space plane, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, blasted off for its second mission aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Dec. 11, 2012. The 29-foot-long (9-meter) robotic spaceship, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, is an experimental vehicle that first flew in April 2010. It returned after eight months. A second vehicle blasted off in March 2011 and stayed in orbit for 15 months."