A woman still living in Kobane has described daily life in the city which is besieged by Islamic State militants.

As part of our Haswell-EP coverage, the next two processors on our test beds are both 12 core variants. The E5-2650L V3 is a surprising monster, giving 12 Haswell cores at 1.8 GHz with 2.5 GHz turbo for only 65W, while the E5-2690 V3 extends the power budget to 135W for all 12 cores at a 2.6 GHz base frequency. 

A 13-year-old boy has told the BBC of his plans to join Islamic State, after watching jihadist videos and chatting to IS fighters online.

A woman whose abduction was caught on CCTV has been safely found in the US state of Maryland, police have said.

Rory Cellan-Jones meets volunteers in Reading trialling a headset that talks visually impaired people around cities.

Thousands of Mexicans have been marching through the streets of Mexico City to protest against the pace of investigations on the whereabouts of 43 missing student teachers.

Phil Rudd, the drummer of the hard rock group AC/DC, appears in a New Zealand court on charges of attempting to arrange a murder.

New malware targeting Apple products is mostly affecting Chinese users, warned an online security researcher.

Morocco's three largest trade unions staged a 24 hour strike against subsidy cuts, so has the country reached tipping point over these economic reforms?

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Dramatic footage shows the moment a Colombian man was plucked from the Pacific Ocean after two days at sea.

The head of the UN mission charged with fighting Ebola tells the BBC he does not yet have the resources necessary to defeat the deadly disease.

Ali Hamedani reports on the gay people from Iran faced with a choice of gender reassignment surgery or death.

Anne Soy reports on the Mali health workers receiving experimental doses of a new vaccine against Ebola.

The United Nations mission charged with fighting Ebola does not yet have the capacity to defeat the disease, the operation's head tells the BBC

AMD is updating their Never Settle bundles in a different fashion today, effectively doubling down on the bundles. In addition to the existing Never Settle: Space Edition, AMD will be providing complimentary copies of Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth to qualifying purchases of their Radeon R9 295X2, R9 290X, and R9 290 GPUs starting today, November 6.

As we found in our Benchmarked article, AMD and Firaxis have worked together to make Mantle a big part of Civilization: Beyond Earth, improving frame rates and with CrossFire setups the Split Frame Rendering can noticeably improve minimum frame rates and reduce input latency. If you haven't already purchased Civilization: Beyond Earth and are already in the market for a new GPU – which may be the case considering the recent price cuts on the R9 290X and R9 290 – this further sweetens the deal.

AMD Never Settle Forever Tiers Video Card Tier Number of Free Games Cur. Number of Games on Tier R9 295X2
R9 290 Series Gold+ 3 + Civ:BE 20 + 6 R9 280 Series
R9 270 Series Gold 3 20 + 6 R7 260 Series Silver 2 19 + 6 R7 250 Series
R7 240 Series Bronze 1 11 + 6

As we discussed previously, the Never Settle promotion now has three teirs of GPUs, Bronze, Silver, and Gold tiers. Qualifying purchases of Bronze tier cards net you one gaming choice – which you can redeem now or hold on to for later – while Silver gives you two choices and Gold gives you three choices. Again, keep in mind that the Civilization: Beyond Earth offer only applies to the top three AMD GPUs (R9 295X2, 290X, and 290).

The current promotion runs from September 2014 until January 31, 2015 – or until all codes are exhausted – and you need to select the game(s) you want during the campaign period. The current list of games is quite long, with the latest additions being Alien: Isolation and the Star Citizen Mustang Omega Variant Racer (along with access to the games first two modules). There are 32 games in total on the Gold list, including six "Indie Packs" that give you two games instead of one. You can view the full list at the AMD4U site; make sure you also purchase a GPU from a qualifying vendor.

Reforms in Myanmar have "stalled", pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi warns.

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit published a unique order this morning, issuing a public reprimand to one of its best-known practitioners, patent lawyer Edward Reines of Weil Gotshal.

The order [PDF] reveals that the full 11-judge court instituted an attorney discipline proceeding against Reines in June, shortly after it became aware of an e-mail exchange that led to the resignation of then-Chief Judge Randall Rader. The order makes public many more details of the story behind the e-mail that led to Rader's resignation, as well as the e-mail itself.

The court publicly reprimands Reines for forwarding the complimentary e-mail to more than 30 current or prospective clients. Within a few days, Reines showed the e-mail to in-house counsel at many of his big-ticket tech clients, including Apple, Cisco, eBay, Facebook, HP, Netapp, Newegg, Samsung, and Yahoo.

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When Netflix and its transit providers fought with cable companies and telcos over who should have to pay for network upgrades, it’s no secret that innocent bystanders were harmed. Companies that sent data over networks that were congested because of money disputes got poorer performance, despite having no direct role in the fight.

One new detail we learned today sheds some light on how customers were affected in that dark period earlier this year. The detail comes from Cogent, an IP transit provider whose paths into the networks of Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, and AT&T were congested when the ISPs refused to upgrade network connections unless they were paid to do so.

Cogent VP of IP Engineering Hank Kilmer wrote that Cogent deployed a Quality of Service (QoS) system that de-prioritized traffic from wholesale customers so that traffic from retail customers would get through without dropping packets.

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Every year, I play the latest Call of Duty installment in the hope of recapturing the thrill that I felt playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for the first time back in 2007. Every year, I come away disappointed.

Maybe it's because I've simply put the original Modern Warfare on an undeserved, nostalgia-tinged pedestal in my mind. Maybe it's because Modern Warfare just happened to be the right game at the right time, ushering in something that managed to feel fresh and new after so many World War II games. Maybe it's simply because I've changed and Call of Duty hasn't. Whatever the reason, that same magic is just never there.

The increasing complexity of the Call of Duty games has led Activision to take a three-pronged approach, with three studios (Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer) developing three arcs in parallel. Treyarch will likely continue its Black Ops line, and one assumes that Infinity Ward will continue its mediocre Ghosts series. Sledgehammer, which contributed to Modern Warfare 3, is taking its first stab at a standalone Call of Duty game with Advanced Warfare.

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