"This expanded benefit primarily affects new fathers and people in same-sex relationships outside the US," wrote Lori Matloff Goler, Facebook's vice president of human resources, in a post Friday. "We want to be there for our people at all stages of life, and in particular we strive to be a leading place to work for families."

As one of the reasons for updating its parental leave policy, Facebook cited Pew Research that says half of fathers are worried that they don't spend enough time with their children.

The Zero is powered by a Broadcom BCM2835 (the same SoC in the Raspberry Pi 1), with a 1GHz ARM11 CPU core. There's 512MB of RAM; a micro SD slot; two micro USB sockets (data and power); and a mini HDMI socket that can output at 1080p60. Perhaps most importantly, though, the Zero has 40 GPIO pins with the same pinout as the Model A+, B+, and 2B. There's also some headers for RCA composite video out.

Another option, if you live in the UK, is to pick up a print copy of the MagPi magazine—available in shops today for £6—which comes with a free Pi Zero on the front cover.

The UN says that an agreement at the Paris climate summit will build on the success of the previous treaty, known as the Kyoto Protocol. Others say Kyoto was a failure, and that the same problems will plague any agreement in Paris.

Developing countries were not required to make cuts under the Kyoto Protocol. A number of industrialised countries – including the US, then the biggest polluter – didn’t sign up and Canada withdrew in 2011.

Systems can still be upgraded to the November update, but direct installation is no longer possible. Instead, the original RTM version must be installed, and the upgrade to 1511 performed through Windows Update.

Others are reporting all manner of bugs, such as machines that instantly wake after sleeping, excessive processor usage by the Mail app, the lock screen failing to hide the full desktop, and more besides. Given that Microsoft is still pushing 1511 out through Windows Update, none of these issues would appear to be fatal, showstopper issues, but clearly this release is not without its problems.

The way Windows is developed has changed radically as a result of two things: laying off large numbers of dedicated software testers, and shipping regularly both to members of the Insider program using pre-releases, and to mainstream users with monthly updates and twice-yearly larger upgrades (of which the November release was the first).

Yahoo has confirmed that it is preventing some people from accessing their email if they are using ad-blocking software in their browser.

Ad-blocking advocates say disabling advertisements can improve smartphone battery life and reduce mobile data usage.

It can also prevent people being tracked by advertisers online and protect devices from malware that could be served up if an advertising network is compromised.

Back in 1995, University of California students Peter Mattis and Kimball Spencer were members of the eXperimental Computing Facility, a Berkeley campus organization. In June of that year, the two hinted at their intentions to write a free graphical image manipulation program as a means of giving back to the free software community.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary, there is an update of the current stable branch of GIMP.

“It’s still a capital crime, and I would give him the death sentence, and I would prefer to see him hanged by the neck until he’s dead, rather than merely electrocuted,” James Woolsey told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on Thursday.

Current CIA Director John Brennan has recently echoed his predecessor’s sentiments, arguing that Snowden's disclosures make it harder for intelligence officials to track terror plots.

The researchers said the vulnerabilities uncovered by Project Zero and in the Fraunhofer analysis should be fixed but that there's no indication that they can be exploited to provide attackers access to encrypted data stored on an unmounted hard drive or thumb drive.

The conclusion means that the millions of people who have relied on TrueCrypt will probably have a grace period to safely continue using the program until VeraCrypt or another TrueCrypt replacement is farther along in development.

Reuters has implemented a new worldwide policy for freelance photographers that bans photos that were processed from RAW files. Photographers must now only send photos that were originally saved to their cameras as JPEGs.

RAW photos do allow for a greater degree of post-processing flexibility, so based on the new policy, it appears that Reuters found that photos processed from RAWs are more likely to distort the truth.

According to PYPL, which pulls its raw data for analysis from Google Trends, Python has grown the most over the past five years—up 5 percent since roughly 2010. Over the same period, PHP also declined by 5 percent.

For developers and other tech pros, these lists come in useful when deciding which languages to pursue. Ones near the top of the rankings are in wide use, usually making them worth your valuable learning time.