The New York Times says it plans to digitise more than 15,000 pages of ISIL and make them public.

From the How Far They've Fallen category, if you search for infinity on Google, you get a page of ads for a car named Infiniti. Even more interesting, if you search for define Google on Google, you don't get the mathematical definition either. In this case, they are probably correct, the name of their company has usurped the mathematical definition.

Script runtimes should have a parameter supplied by the "supervisor" app (the one that's running the code) that says "only accept constant expressions." Anything involving a name that isn't a constant, like NaN or infinity is a fatal error. Having this level of security inside the runtime is essential.

Outcome of first election since the defeat of ISIL under scrutiny raising doubts of a peaceful transition to power.

Cases against Hall stemmed from a 2013 report he researched that alleged labour abuses by the company Natural Fruit.

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More than 80 have died during a government crackdown on students and others, calling for the president's resignation.

Giuseppe Conte, who remains Five Star Movement and League's pick for prime minister, has been summoned by the president.

Many question whether political turmoil from failure to form a government will lead to Rome leaving the eurozone.

The Spanish parliament is set to vote on a motion of no-confidence in PM Mariano Rajoy's leadership on Friday.

Flooding reignites protests against country’s biggest dam in a region still traumatised by years of conflict.

“The best platform vendor is no platform vendor.” Me, on Faceboo.

Samsung will not be forced to update the software on its mobile phones for years after their release, after it won a court case in the Netherlands. From a report: A consumer association had argued that Samsung should update its phones for at least four years after they go on sale. Regular software updates can address security problems but older models do not typically receive all the latest updates. However, the court rejected the association's claims. Samsung produces some of the world's best-selling mobile phones running Google's Android operating system. Google regularly produces software updates that address newly discovered security flaws, and offers these to phone manufacturers such as Samsung. It is often up to the phone manufacturer to distribute the update to its customers. Consumer group Consumentenbond said Samsung was not distributing updates in a "timely" manner. Samsung said it guaranteed consumers in the Netherlands would get software updates for two years after a handset first went on sale in the country. The court ruled in Samsung's favour and said the claims made by Consumentenbond were "inadmissible" because they related to "future acts."

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I’ve heard more than once that at WWDC we’ll learn about how we can run iOS apps on Macs.

I’m worried, of course, that this will lead to the further degradation of the Mac UI, and even less incentive for developers to write Mac apps.

I’m agin’ it. But, also, I don’t know if it’s true and I don’t know any details — so maybe it would be awesome? We’ll see.

Or not see. Could be totally made up. Could just be speculation run wild.

A group of 30 volunteers has collected more than 1,200 dead bodies from beneath of the rubble of the destroyed city.