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Dalmiya, 75, was admitted to hospital after falling critically ill with a heart condition last week.

Striker scores a penalty and misses another but Barcelona maintain perfect start to La Liga.

We mentioned a few months back Microsoft's beta of a browser-based intrerface to Skype. Now, reports Engadget, Skype will be able to work without a plug-in (as was required for the beta). However, it will work -- at least at first -- only with Microsoft's Edge browser. The latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build comes with Object RTC API. That's the element that allows real-time audio and video communication without the need for any installation not just for Skype for Web and Outlook.com, but also for other WebRTC-compatible services. To note, Chrome, Firefox and Safari all support WebRTC standards, but it's unclear if and when Skype will enable a plug-in-less experience for those browsers, as well.

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Testssl project has announced the release of testssl 2.6. testssl.sh is a free command line tool which checks a servers service on any port for the support of TLS/SSL ciphers, protocols as well as recent cryptographic flaws.

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To check the supported ciphers suites you can use the f option:

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Another neat option is H which will give you some information about the http header and it will mark the security features

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XSH (DEPRECATED) scripting language for XPath-based editing of XML

Localized number formatters using the Unicode CLDR

Generate a Makefile.PL containing a warning for legacy users

The Republican presidential candidate says Islam is not consistent with the US constitution.

The Christian Science Monitor reports on the newly announced Open Tree of Life, a freely accessible unified interface to, and archive, of biological taxonomies. In the current version, data from nearly 500 evolutionary timelines has been assembled into a single, searchable view of all known life forms; From the CSM report: Building the computer code and compiling the data took three years, and involved collaborators from Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, the Web development firm Interrobang, the University of Michigan, the University of Florida, Duke University, and George Washington University. "Many participants on the project contributed hundreds of hours tracking down and cleaning up thousands of trees from the literature, then selecting 484 of them that were used to generate the draft tree of life," said Cody Hinchliff, a scientist from the University of Idaho, in the announcement.

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Measures taken to contain outbreak that has killed at least six people and infected 70 in area west of capital Baghdad.

An anonymous reader writes: I've been doxxed on a popular forum, by one of the moderators no less. The forum owner doesn't care, the hosting company doesn't care. I'm getting bombarded by email and social media, even via GitHub. How does a person recover from this? I don't want to create a whole new identity or shut down all my web sites, social media etc. Can't really change my real name either, at least not without an incredible amount of hassle. The police don't care, and since the forum owner is on the other side of the world it's unlikely there could be any legal consequences, and even if they were they would probably only draw more attention to me. I've tried to clean up Google's search results about me. How do I fix this? What does a fix even look like?