'Anti-grooming' software can detect paedophilesScientists have developed "anti-grooming" software which can tell young people if they are chatting to an adult posing as a child on the internet. Read Article
Revealed: Prison doctor who played key role in release of the Lockerbie bomber had no specialist cancer knowledge The prison doctor who played a key role in the release of the Lockerbie bomber is a GP with no specialist cancer knowledge, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. Read Article
Abid Katib/Getty Images Weighing Crimes and Ethics in the Fog of Urban Warfare By STEVEN ERLANGER JERUSALEM — Your unit, on the edges of the northern Gaza town of Jabaliya, has taken mortar fire from the crowded refugee camp nearby. You prepare to return fire, and perhaps you notice — or perhaps you don’t, even though it’s on your map — that there is a United Nations school just there, full of displaced Gazans. You know that international law allows you to protect your soldiers and return fire, but also demands that you ensure that there is no excessive harm to civilians. Do you remember all that in the chaos? You pick GPS-guided mortars, which are supposed to be accurate and of a specific explosive force, and fire back. In the end, you kill some Hamas fighters but also, the United Nations says, more than 40 civilians, some of them children. Have you committed a war crime? Whatever the military and political results of Israel’s 21-day war against Hamas in Gaza, Israel is again facing serious accusations and anguished questioning over the legality of its military conduct. As in Israel’s 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, the popular perception abroad of how Israel fights, and hence of Israelis, may prove to be more lasting than any strategic gains or losses. The televised images of devastation in the crowded Gaza Strip and the large asymmetry in deaths, especially of civilians, have created an uproar in the Arab world and the West reminiscent of 2006. A plethora of Western foreign ministers,…
Consumer Reports Says iPhone 4 Has Design FlawBy NICK BILTON The signal problems are a result of a flaw in the antenna, not a software issue, the magazine’s Web site said. Read Article
