Australian power company Origin Energy said it will buy the entire electricity output from Australia’s largest wind farm Challicum Hills
The Australian Government has refused to allow Electronic Frontiers Australia to find out which web sites have been banned under the federal web censorship laws introduced in 2000. Government spokespeople generally insist that they’re all hardcore pedophilia
etc, but the issue of which web sites are banned has become more interesting since the NSW Police Minister called for web sites run by WTO protestors to be shut down. So in order to ward off continuing inquiries from the likes of EFA, the Government is introducing changes to FOI laws
Red Hat, one of the biggest distributors of the Linux operating system, released a new version yesterday designed to attract more users of desktop personal computers, even as the company plays down attempts to compete with Microsoft
The US state of California yesterday targeted the information age scourge of spamming
with a US$2 million lawsuit
John Carmack and crew at Armadillo Aerospace have gotten their first man in the air. Six seconds of perfectly controlled flight with human passenger
On 9 October the US Supreme Court will hear the case of Eldred vs Ashcroft. It’s a challenge to the controversial 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which lengthened copyright terms by 20 years, stretching them to 70 years after an artist’s death
A malicious Windows XP help centre request can easily and silently delete the contents of any directory on your Windows machine. Worse, Microsoft has rolled the fix silently into SP1 without making a public announcement
Optus has claimed that Telstra is using its market power to stop rivals in rural Australia offering fast-speed internet services
A survey of 28 leading scientists from around the world concluded that using biotechnology to produce simple nutritional and hygienic improvements and cheap vaccines would do more to improve global health than the development of high-tech treatments
We’ve all heard about spyware, well now KaZaA, Morpheus and LimeWire are sneaking a new type of nastiness onto your computer, software that — without you even knowing it — redirects commissions for online purchases you make from other vendors back to them
NASA is planning to mount a camera on the external fuel tank and broadcast a 2 October shuttle launch
The Washington Post threatened an anti-abortion activist with legal action for registering a similar domain name and snatching e-mail messages intended for reporters
Scholars from MIT, the University of California in LA, and the University of London have worked together to oppose laws restricting children from playing violent video games. The battle is currently taking place in the US Court of Appeals and the case seems to hold a decent amount of merit — via Slashdot
Recent studies in Romania where large numbers of sheep coexist with dense populations of large carnivores, such as bears and wolves, have shown that the use of electric fences in night time pens can significantly reduce sheep mortality
NSW Police Minister Michael Costa has asked the Federal Government to shut down web sites with instructions to disrupt a World Trade Organisation meeting in Sydney
Privacy activists warn that increasing reliance on biometric technology for security purposes is a serious threat to the rights of innocent Americans
The Wayback Machine, an archive of web sites as they appeared in their past incarnations, is reported as having censored the Scientology-critical Xenu.net, in a repeat of the heavy-handed tactics used against Google
Parts of the newest version of Red Hat’s Linux software have slipped onto the Internet, nearly a week before the operating system’s official release date, giving glimpses of a product with a new focus on mainstream computer users
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