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Ethiopian activists promote FOSS.
APC (Association for Progressive Communications) and Catia have joined forces with the Ethiopian Free and Open Source Network (EFOSSNET) to host a series of workshops over the next 10 days to promote the use of free and open source software in that country.
Group battles for digital rights.
The Open Rights Group (Org) - an organisation committed to fighting for people's digital rights in the UK, is celebrating its first birthday.
Snails that held up a bypass have died out.
A snail species which almost stopped the A34 Newbury bypass being built has died out in the area, according to Buglife, the Invertebrate Conservation Trust.
China: Amnesty International urges users
of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google to use their power as consumers to help end corporate complicity in suppression of the internet in China. Download a copy of the report (PDF format).
Earth faces 'catastrophic loss of species'.
Life on earth is facing a major crisis with thousands of species threatened with imminent extinction - a global emergency demanding urgent action. A group of eminent academics in this week's edition of the journal Nature call for the establishment of an Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity.
Europe's pollen bees and wild flowers caught up in a vicious cycle of decline
across large tracts of northern Europe, according to one of the most comprehensive surveys of pollinating insects. A specially trained sniffer dog has been given the task of helping the plight of the bumblebee in the Hebrides.
Firefox bites into browser market.
Internet Explorer saw its share of the market fall in July with the increasing take-up of rival Firefox, from the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation, which increased its market share by 1.1% to 12.9%.
Locking carbon dioxide underground
sounds like a neat way of getting rid of it - but not if it eventually leaks out again. Early experimental data suggest that minerals in rock walls may be dissolved by a mixture of CO2 and saltwater.
Brian Haw has now negotiated permission
from Westminster Council to use his megaphone at certain times in parliament square. This permission also gives him the right under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA) law.
ID cards doomed, say officials.
The government's flagship identity cards scheme is set to fail and may not be introduced for a generation, according to leaked Whitehall e-mails from the senior officials responsible for the multi-billion-pound project. Read background from NO2ID.