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Cuba's Fidel Castro says the Cuban model no longer works in the latest excerpt from an interview with a US journalist.

An anonymous reader pointed us to an article talking about Google TV and AppleTV challenging the major networks and taking their place in your living room. It'll be a tough battle, amusingly waged on cable company wires in many major markets.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F1341217%2FGoogleTV-AppleTV-and-the-Battle-For-The-Living-Room" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=GoogleTV%2C+AppleTV+and+the+Battle+For+The+Living+Room%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaH2W3c" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/1341217/GoogleTV-AppleTV-and-the-Battle-For-The-Living-Room?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1782018amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d96d0e9/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yyG-9p-F0bAu868VXm95Yo2MMTE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yyG-9p-F0bAu868VXm95Yo2MMTE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yyG-9p-F0bAu868VXm95Yo2MMTE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yyG-9p-F0bAu868VXm95Yo2MMTE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/DmGRk3Ni1w0" height="1" width="1"/

Pakistan bowler Wahab Riaz will be questioned by Scotland Yard on 14 September in relation to allegations of corruption.

India's first caste-based census since 1931 will take place next year, the cabinet announces.

Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe is ruled out for at least six weeks because of an ankle injury.

Tootech writes "In a case of "physician, heal thyself," the agency mdash; which forms the operational arm of DHS's National Cyber Security Division, or NCSD mdash; failed to keep its own systems up to date with the latest software patches. Auditors working for the DHS inspector general ran a sweep of US-CERT using the vulnerability scanner Nessus and turned up 1,085 instances of 202 high-risk security holes. "The majority of the high-risk vulnerabilities involved application and operating system and security software patches that had not been deployed on computer systems located in Virginia," reads the report from assistant inspector general Frank Deffer."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F136204%2FDHS-CyberSecurity-Misses-1085-Holes-On-Own-Network" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=DHS+CyberSecurity+Misses+1085+Holes+On+Own+Network%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F8Y37R1" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/136204/DHS-CyberSecurity-Misses-1085-Holes-On-Own-Network?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1781978amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d965475/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DEph0Mwg0kASHf1VsRC0Yq9Qkgo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DEph0Mwg0kASHf1VsRC0Yq9Qkgo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DEph0Mwg0kASHf1VsRC0Yq9Qkgo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DEph0Mwg0kASHf1VsRC0Yq9Qkgo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/OK3PNBN05mw" height="1" width="1"/

BAE Systems announces it is to axe almost 1,000 jobs across the UK, with 740 to go from five sites in England.

A Strabane taxi driver picks up a pipe bomb and takes it to waste ground.

Le tribunal condamne Montréal et ses cols bleus à dédommager les citoyens qui s'étaient blessés sur des trottoirs mal déblayés en 2004. Montréal et le Syndicat des cols bleus en appellent du jugement.

Le premier ministre de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador reproche encore au Québec de freiner son projet hydroélectrique sur le bas du fleuve Churchill. Il promet de faire de cette bataille sa priorité.

Alex Salmond tells MSPs as many as 10,000 jobs could go if the UK government scraps the building of two new aircraft carriers, during first minister's question time.

Un comité créé par le fédéral recommande à Ottawa d'appliquer la hausse maximale des cotisations d'assurance-emploi en janvier prochain. Le gouvernement Harper pourrait toutefois rejeter cette recommandation en raison de la mauvaise conjoncture économique.

The Universities Minister suggests an increased role for private universities as he signals graduates will have to pay more for their degrees.

Un homme a subi d'importantes blessures au haut du corps dans le quartier Pointe-Saint-Charles dans le cadre d'une tentative de meurtre. Il est à l'hôpital dans un état critique.

Un homme a subi d'importantes blessures au haut du corps dans le quartier Pointe-Saint-Charles dans le cadre d'une tentative de meurtre. Il est à l'hôpital dans un état critique.

theodp writes "In response to a complaint, Rackspace has shut down the websites of the Dove World Outreach Center, a small 50-member church which has received national and international criticism for a planned book burning of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The center 'violated the hate-speech provision of our acceptable-use policy,' explained Rackspace spokesman Dan Goodgame. 'This is not a constitutional issue. This is a contract issue,' said Goodgame, who added he did not know how long it had hosted the church's sites. Not quite the same thing, but would Kurt Westergaard's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad also violate Rackspace's AUP? How about Christopher Hitchens' Slate articles? Could articles from one-time Rackspace poster child The Onion pass muster?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F09%2F1228231%2FRackspace-Shuts-Down-Quran-Burning-Churchs-Sites" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Rackspace+Shuts+Down+Quran-Burning+Church's+Sites%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9mXH8n" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/1228231/Rackspace-Shuts-Down-Quran-Burning-Churchs-Sites?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1781942amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d95e0b9/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3Mw93zTmiAxqs-XEuEMUxWmB2SU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3Mw93zTmiAxqs-XEuEMUxWmB2SU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3Mw93zTmiAxqs-XEuEMUxWmB2SU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3Mw93zTmiAxqs-XEuEMUxWmB2SU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/BCa_DXoV1qk" height="1" width="1"/

Le secrétaire général du Conseil exécutif, Gérard Bibeau, confirme que le collecteur de fonds du Parti libéral Franco Fava est intervenu dans le but de favoriser certaines candidatures à des postes de la haute fonction publique. Il dit toutefois qu'il n'a pas subi des pressions de sa part.

Science Minister David Willetts says the research-teaching balance in universities has 'gone wrong', after defending cuts to science research.

The Labour MP for West Bromwich, Tom Watson, used the Commons debate on phone hacking to accuse fellow members of cowardice in the face of Britain's tabloid newspapers.