Halo1 writes: Twenty-three years ago, development started on the first version of the Turbo Pascal and later also Delphi-compatible Free Pascal Compiler, for OS/2 no less. Two decades and change later, the new Free Pascal Compiler 3.0.0 release still supports OS/2, along with a host of older and newer platforms ranging from MS-DOS on an 8086 to the latest Linux and iOS running on AArch64. On the language front, the new features include support for type helpers, codepage-aware strings and a utility to automatically generate JNI bridges for Pascal code. In the mean time, development on the next versions continues, with support for generic functions, an optional LLVM code generator backend and full support for ISO and Extended Pascal progressing well.

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Bollywood actor Aamir Khan faces backlash over what he describes as growing intolerance and insecurity in India.

In second day of historic Africa visit, pontiff says illegal forms of trafficking fuel political instability and crime.

Allah Nazar appears in video denying government claims he was killed in August and vowing to continue separatist fight.

Berlin shifts policy, committing military personnel and hardware, following direct plea from France after Paris attacks.

judgecorp writes: The government-owned Russian energy company Rosenergoatom is building Russia's largest data center at its giant Kalinin nuclear power station. Most of the space will be available to customers, and the facility expects to be in demand, thanks to two factors: reliable power, and the data residency rules which require Russian citizens' data to be located within Russia. Facebook and Google don't have data centers within Russia yet — and Rosenergoatom has already invited them into the Kalinin facility.

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Like Module::FatPack, but uses datapacking instead of fatpack

Read and write parts from data section

At least one man shot dead and three others injured after three gunmen stormed mosque in Haripur village.

Identity of suspects and their alleged role in Radisson Blu siege not disclosed as officials begin interrogation.

paroneayea writes: Software Freedom Conservancy is asking people to join as supporters to save both their basic work and GPL enforcement. Conservancy is the steward of projects like Samba, Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and many more. Conservancy also does much work around GPL enforcement and needs 2,500 members to join in order to save copyleft compliance work. They list some of the past year's successes, too, including fighting for and successfully earning "an exemption from the Library of Congress in the DMCA review process to legally permit circumvention of encryption on Smart TVs, ensuring that you are free to hack on the devices that you legally own."

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Republican candidate's crude impersonation of NYT journalist suffering from congenital joint condition comes under fire.

Al-Manar TV says suspect in November attack killed in joint Hezbollah-Syria regime operation in ISIL-held area in Homs.