Våldsbrotten minskade med 4,4 procent i USA i fjol, enligt en ny rapport från FBI. Justitieminister Eric Holder prisar framgången men anser att väldigt mycket mer måste göras.

An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. Postal Service has admitted that it has suffered a massive security breach, with the disclosure to hackers of the personal details of over 500,000 USPS workers, along with details supplied by members of the public when contacting Postal Service call centers between January and mid-August of 2015. The breach is a hard blow to the integrity and reputation of the USPS's internal security set-up, the Corporate Information Security Office (CISO). In 2012 CISO reports that it blocked 257 billion unauthorized attempts to access the USPS network, 66,734 attempts to distribute credit-card information, 1,278 attempts to reveal USPS-ordained credit-card transactions and 345,342 attempts to distribute social security numbers.

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rossgneumann writes If everyone always wants to look different than everybody else, everybody starts looking the same. At least, if you use a recently published mathematical model describing the phenomenon. "The hipster effect is this non-concerted emergent collective phenomenon of looking alike trying to look different," in the words of Jonathan Touboul, mathematical neuroscientist at the College de France in Paris.

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Two days of talks in Oman end with no sign of a breakthrough ahead of a November 24 deadline for an agreement.

Two days of talks in Oman end with no sign of a breakthrough ahead of a November 24 deadline for an agreement.

Amerikanska nyhetskanalen CNN kommer att sluta sända i Ryssland, enligt ett uttalande från Turner International som driver tv-kanalen. Orsaken är ”de senaste förändringarna i rysk medielagstiftning”.

Demonstranter som protesterade mot den påstådda massakern av 43 försvunna mexikanska studenter har drabbat samman med kravallpolis i Mexiko. Myndigheter säger samtidigt att chansen att identifiera de förmodade kvarlevorna är små.

Demonstranter som protesterade mot den påstådda massakern av 43 försvunna mexikanska studenter har drabbat samman med kravallpolis i Mexiko. Myndigheter säger samtidigt att chansen att identifiera de förmodade kvarlevorna är små.

Amerikanska nyhetskanalen CNN kommer att sluta sända i Ryssland, enligt ett uttalande från Turner International som driver tv-kanalen. Orsaken är ”de senaste förändringarna i rysk medielagstiftning”.

En kvinna i 70-årsåldern som hittats avliden i sin lägenhet i Karlstad tros ha legat död i åtminstone två år, skriver Värmlands Folkblad på nätet.

Nya rödgrönrosa majoriteten i Stockholms stadshus satsar 60 miljoner kronor på utsatta barn och fler socialsekreterare i kommande budgeten. Socialborgarrådet Åsa Lindhagen (MP) drar även igång en social hållbarhetskommission som ska minska klyftorna i huvudstaden.

benrothke writes A word to describe the book Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Americas Most Wanted Computer Outlaw was hyperbole. While the general storyline from the 1996 book was accurate, filler was written that created the legend of Kevin Mitnick. This in turn makes the book a near work of historical fiction. Much has changed in nearly 20 years and Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the Worlds First Digital Weapon has certainly upped the ante for accurate computer security journalism. The book is a fascinating read and author Kim Zetters attention to detail and accuracy is superb. In the inside cover of the book, Kevin Mitnick describes this as an ambitious, comprehensive and engrossing book. The irony is not lost in that Mitnick was dogged by misrepresentations in Markoff's book. Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.

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A group of Italian scientists convicted of manslaughter for failing to predict a deadly earthquake in 2009 have had the verdict quashed.