South Africa has got to consider renewable energy, or risk being left behind. This was the message from a seminar held by Greenpeace Africa in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
A former foreign office minister has said the US should not rely on any apparent secret deal to store banned cluster munitions on British territory.
Chris Bryant was responding to a leak on the Wikileaks website suggesting the US could be exempted from the ban. The Labour MP said: If the Americans are relying on that then they were being led up the garden path
— via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
A chainsaw is just one of the unclaimed items Australia Post is putting up for auction in Hobart — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Signalling a sea change in the debate over Internet privacy, the government’s top consumer protection agency on Wednesday advocated a plan that would let consumers choose whether they want their Internet browsing and buying habits monitored — via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks is no longer mirroring its trove of confidential US diplomatic cables on US-based servers run by Amazon.com, and according to US Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Amazon agreed to remove the mirrors after complaints from his office — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The South Australian Department of Health has bought some 200 Apple iPads and plans to buy more for its 3300 staff after an internal review lauded the security, functionality and return on investment of the devices — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the operator of Torrent-finder.com have separately vowed to fight domain-name seizures by two US agencies in recent days — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The central IT office of Australia’s Federal Government has requested that agencies consider the use of alternative file formats to Adobe’s PDF.
The advice follows a study which found that while accessibility of the Portable Document Format (PDF) has improved over time and remains a popular format for many organisations, it was less accessible to visually-impaired users — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The independent senator Nick Xenophon has turned his sights towards a new bill crucial to the government’s national broadband network, saying he will block it if changes are not made — via The Sydney Morning Herald
More than 70 sites alleged to be selling counterfeit goods or offering pirated content have been shut down by the US government — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A peak Australian technology body has welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to not force internet service providers (ISPs) to disconnect the infected computers of its customers as part of its response to a Senate committee report into online security threats — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered clandestine surveillance of United Nations leadership, including obtaining security measures, passwords, personal encryption keys, and types of VPN versions used
as well as biometric information, according to a secret directive made public today by WikiLeaks.org — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A bride has leapt from a jetty into the sea to help save a woman who was floating face down at an Adelaide beach — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man has died after jumping into an icy river in Lancashire in an attempt to save his pet springer spaniel — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Chinese dairy farm is installing the world’s largest system to turn steaming cow pats into enough electricity to power thousands of homes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 62-year-old man has been arrested and charged with raping his daughter for more than 30 years and fathering 10 children with her, in a case even worse
than that of Austria’s Josef Fritzl in 2008, a judge has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Variations in the amputation rates in diabetes patients in England have been described as shocking by a charity — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The coalition appears to have shelved plans to introduce new protections for public sector workers who blow the whistle on dangerous, corrupt or incompetent practices, the Guardian has learned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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