Lufthansa and Air France to stop flying over area after 224 passengers and crew die in crash in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

jones_supa writes: The Finnish social insurance institution is to begin drawing up plans for a citizens' basic income model. If eventually deployed after an experimental phase, the model could revolutionize the Finnish social welfare system. Under basic income all citizens would be paid a taxless benefit sum free of charge by the government. The proposal's director Olli Kangas says that the model would see Finns being paid some 800 euros a month in its full form, 550 euros monthly in the model's pilot phase. The full-fledged form of the model would make some earnings-based benefits obsolete, but in the partial pilot format benefits would not be affected, and housing and income support would remain as separate packages. We first mentioned this plan a few months ago, and at the start of the year touched on a program that tied a basic income program with the Fimkrypto cryptocurrency.

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Spaniard beats Gasquet in straight sets to reach his 98th career final; Federer edges out Sock.

Modular Perl Debugger (akin to Ruby "Trepanning" Debuggers).

The Perl 5 language interpreter

Adds disassemble support via B::Concise to Devel::Trepan

Mapping Perl releases on CPAN to the location of the tarballs

use ambiguous HTTP to circumvent security systems

Tens of thousands of Israelis gather in Tel Aviv to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's killing.

Bruce66423 writes: In the light of the British police's seizure of a BBC laptop what is the right configuration and practices to ensure that such a seizure provides zero information to the cops? This post from Thursday might be a good place for some ideas, but that one's expressly about securing a Chromebook; what would you advise for securing a more conventional laptop? (Or desktop, for that matter.)

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Reuters reports on a tantalizing advance in battery technology described this week by Cambridge researchers, who have made large enough steps toward a practical lithium-oxygen battery to give a laboratory demo of their system. Commercially available lithium-oxygen batteries would be significant because they would have the potential to deliver the desired power thanks to a high energy density - a measure of energy stored for a given weight - that could be 10 times that of lithium-ion batteries and approach that of gasoline. They also could be a fifth the cost and a fifth the weight of lithium-ion batteries. But problems have beset lithium-oxygen batteries that affect their capacity and lifetime, including troublesome efficiency, performance, chemical reaction and potential safety issues and the limitation of needing pure oxygen rather than plain old air. The Cambridge demonstrator battery employs different chemistry than previous work on lithium-air batteries, for example using lithium hydroxide rather than lithium peroxide. It also uses an electrode made of graphene, a form of carbon. The result was a more stable and efficient battery." Some more about this research can be gleaned from Clare Grey's web page at Cambridge.

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New submitter wimconradie writes: The concept of putting unique watermarks in digital media has existed a long time. This startup took it a bit further by replacing the watermark with a bitcoin bounty. If somebody claims the bounty, the copyright owner is immediately notified due to the bitcoin blockchain transaction which is public to everyone. This effectively makes reporting of pirated media much more effective. In a philosophical sense, it combats the way piracy is structured, by incentivising downloaders to work against (report) uploaders.

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A framework for Parallel Corpora processing