Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, lashed out together on Saturday at the Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of whistle-blowers, including those responsible for the release of secret documents on the Iraq war — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Graphic accounts of torture, civilian killings and Iran’s hand in the Iraq war are detailed in hundreds of thousands of US military documents made public on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The sex.com internet domain has been sold for $13m (£8.2m)
The domain was put up for auction in July 2010 when its former owner, Escom LLC, went bankrupt.
Clover Holdings, an obscure company registered on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, put in the highest bid for the domain — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The UN Environment Programme is turning to the wiki-world in an attempt to improve protection of the natural one.
Its new venture – protectedplanet.net – aims to help people visit little-known protected areas, so generating revenue and improving knowledge about them — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One third of the world’s population will be online by the end of the year, according to United Nations statistics — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Soyuz rocket carrying six spacecraft for Globalstar Inc has lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Dead Sea Scrolls, among the world’s most important, mysterious and tightly restricted archaeological treasures, are about to be Googled — via The Sydney Morning Herald
The Federal Government has tipped $1.2 million into locally-developed quantum cryptography technology, which will be available to buy in a year.
The second-generation technology, called the Quantum Link Encryptor (QLE), promises to dramatically lower the cost of unbreakable
quantum cryptography systems by using off-the-shelf telecommunications equipment, which is possible thanks to the use of a finely-tuned laser that transmits data — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internode will sell only Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) dual-stack hardware and connections from next year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The long arm of the law just got longer, with Victoria Police revealing they have used Facebook to serve an intervention order on a man who threatened, bullied and harassed
a former partner on the social networking site.
Victoria Police said the offender used Facebook to intimidate a woman in August this year, two days after a previous intervention order expired, which led to a Victorian court issuing another ban on him contacting the woman — via The Age
Labor’s controversial ISP filter plan faces further delays as a meeting central to the policy is postponed yet again — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Pentagon urged news organizations on Monday not to publish classified US documents due to be released by WikiLeaks as US officials brace for a mass disclosure of leaked Iraq war files by the whistleblower website — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will this week host a series of meetings between international anti-spam regulators — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you’re anything like me, your main problem with tattoos is probably the fact that you’ve never been able to play Pong on them. But those problems seem to be over now that an international team of researchers, led by John Rogers at the University of Illinois, has developed a new flexible array of LEDs that can be implanted under the skin — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The company charged with installing Brisbane’s broadband network has recently been forced to abandon its sewer delivery method in a smaller United Kingdom project.
Lord Mayor Campbell Newman last week announced i3 Asia Pacific would install a $600 million fibre optic broadband network through Brisbane’s wastewater network within the next four years.
However, this website can reveal a similar scheme in the southern English city of Bournemouth had to be abandoned after the relationship between i3 and the local water authority soured — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Popular mobile phone applications are sharing sensitive information about users, including their location, with advertising companies, a study has found — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Organised criminals are stealing Australians’ identities by plundering the information they place on websites and using it to commit fraud, according to the head of the nation’s elite criminal intelligence agency — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Book Depository Group is the UK’s largest dedicated online bookseller offering the largest range of titles in the world, available for dispatch within 48 hours, with free worldwide shipping. Founded in 2004 to make All Books To All
we focus on selling less of more
rather than more of less
, differentiating ourself from other retailers who increasingly focus on bestsellers
Mobile carriers would be forced to notify customers before slugging them with excess usage fees and other extra charges under tough new rules being considered by the Australian government and regulators.
The US communications regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has proposed new laws aimed at dramatically reducing “bill shock”. These have been supported by Australian regulators but the mobile industry is already fighting back against any extra regulations — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Having recently had surgery, the professor could not be bothered to drop off his backpack in his apartment before first going to the laundry room.
He instead left the bag behind a door in the stairwell, thinking it would be safe for a few minutes.
But when he returned a short time later, the bag was missing, along with the computer, keys, calendar and other documents inside.
The professor was most upset by the loss of his calendar.
It is my life. I have documented everything in it that has happened in the last 10 years and beyond,
he told the newspaper.
He then called the police to report the incident and blocked the credit cards which were also in the bag.
But when he went down to the stairwell a short time later, he couldn’t believe his eyes.
The backpack was there again. With all the papers, calendar and credit cards. It was just the computer that was missing,
he explained.
Unfortunately, I have been bad at backing up my computer
— via carloz.newsvine.com
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