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Bismillah writes Opposition from the Green Party and independent members of parliament wasn't enough to stop the ruling conservative Liberal-National coalition from passing Australia's new law that will force telcos and ISPs to store customer metadata for at least two years. Journalists' metadata is not exempted from the retention law, but requires a warrant to access. The metadata of everyone else can be accessed by unspecified government agencies without a warrant however.

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Över 130 brandmän bekämpade en brand i ett bostadskvarter i East Village i New York på torsdagen. Tolv personer skadades, varav minst tre allvarligt.

Efter kritikstormen som mött Margot Wallström (S) efter uttalandena om Saudiarabien får nu utrikesministern stöd från socialdemokratiska partigruppen i EU-parlamentet. Wallström har kritiserat Saudiarabiens kvinnoförtryck, betecknat landet som en diktatur och kallat piskandet av en bloggare för ”medeltida”, vilket tolkats som kritik av islam.

MojoKid writes Both Micron and Intel noted in a release today that traditional planar NAND flash memory is reaching a dead-end, and as such, have been working together on 3D memory technology that could open the floodgates for high densities and faster speeds. Not all 3D memory is alike, however. This joint development effort resulted in a "floating gate cell" being used, something not uncommon for standard flash, but a first for 3D. Ultimately, this 3D NAND is composed of flash cells stacked 32 high, resulting in 256Gb MLC and 384Gb TLC die that fit inside of a standard package. That gives us 48GB per die, and up to 750GB in a single package. Other benefits include faster performance, reduced cost, and technologies that help extend the life of the memory.