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wabrandsma writes with this excerpt from Torrentfreak: Disney has just obtained a patent for a search engine that ranks sites based on various "authenticity" factors. One of the goals of the technology is to filter pirated material from search results while boosting the profile of copyright and trademark holders' websites. A new patent awarded to Disney Enterprises this week describes a search engine through which pirated content is hard to find. Titled "Online content ranking system based on authenticity metric values for web elements," one of the patent's main goals is to prevent pirated movies and other illicit content from ranking well in the search results. According to Disney their patent makes it possible to "enable the filtering of undesirable search results, such as results referencing piracy websites." Disney believes that current search engines are using the wrong approach as they rely on a website's "popularity." This allows site owners to game the system in order to rank higher. "For example, a manipulated page for unauthorized sales of drugs, movies, etc. might be able to obtain a high popularity rating, but what the typical user will want to see is a more authentic page," they explain. Probabliy not a good place to look for a grey-market copy of Song of the South.

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Moscow says polls to help re-establishing normal life in the region, while EU calls the separatists elections illegal.

Proryska rebeller höll på söndagen sina egna val i östra Ukraina. EU kallar valen olagliga och ett ”nytt hinder” för fred i landet. Men som väntat säger Ryssland att det respekterar valutgången.

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Rumäniens premiärminister Victor Ponta ser ut att vara på god väg mot presidentposten i valet som inleddes på söndagen. Vallokalsundersökningar visade att Ponta leder över rivalen Klaus Iohannis med 6-10 procentenheter. De två kommer antagligen stå mot varandra i en andra omgång den 16 november.

Utrikesminister Margot Wallström (S) tror och hoppas att Sveriges beslut att erkänna Palestina ska få andra länder följa efter – och att erkännandet kan bidra till att fredsförhandlingarna kommer igång. Till SVT:s Agenda säger Wallström att andra utrikesministrar visat intresse.

Folk som såg den lilla lastbilen på riksvägen i närheten av värmländska Åmotsfors tyckte att den vinglade fram lite väl mycket. Polis som kallades till platsen kunde konstatera att föraren bara var 15 år, skriver nwt.se.

Under måndagen ska barnombudsmannen Fredrik Malmberg vittna inför FN:s tortyrkommitté i Genève om hur barn och unga behandlas i svenska häkten. Han tycker att åtgärder som gjorts inte räcker och tror att Sverige fälls igen.

An anonymous reader writes Everyone is well-aware by now that Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have not seen the impressive adoption rate of their predecessor. Yet the duo had a particularly good run last month, finally passing 15 percent market share together. Together, they owned 16.80 percent of the market at the end of October, up from 12.26 percent at the end of September. Windows XP meanwhile dropped a whopping 6.69 points to 17.18 percent. The biggest catalyst for these changes was most likely back to school sales in September, which are better reflected in the data after students use their new machines for a full month.