Love watching the ABC? We’re really happy to announce that the ABC has added long-form shows to YouTube. Now you can watch separate channels for comedy, entertainment and documentaries, which showcase full episodes of great Australian-made shows — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the early 1970s, three men working for the British Government developed an encryption system that – almost 40 years later – underpins every transaction on the internet. There was only one problem: they couldn’t tell anyone about it.
Between them James Ellis, Clifford Cocks and Malcolm Williamson invented Public Key Cryptography, a system that permits secure communications and electronic transactions without the prior exchange of a secret key. Their work was used to secure Government communications – and naturally their bosses at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) wanted to keep their discovery top secret — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Libyan government has removed an adult-friendly link-shortening service from the web, saying that it fell foul of local laws.
It could have an impact on similar services registered in Libya — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Viewed from the outside, it could be any old warehouse in the country.
Inside, though, it has the equivalent of 153 miles of storage space to store more than eight million books which form the bulk of the stock of arguably the country’s most famous library.
Welcome to the new home for books owned by Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, which has found that its historic entitlement to a copy of every volume published in the UK had led to it running out of storage space — via redwolf.newsvine.com
NSW and Victoria have ruled out following Tasmania’s lead and legislating for all homes to be connected to the National Broadband Network — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the face of China wielding menacing control over 97% of the world’s rare earth materials, the US House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would bolster R&D of the key elements and help find substitutions for the materials — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Countries in Eastern Europe and Africa that harbour cyber criminals should be locked out of the global internet until their governments do something to reduce the threats, the former chief technology officer at the US National Security Agency says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
During the last week, French Internet users have been starting to receive letters as part of the graduated warning system built in to the controversial Hadopi anti-piracy legislation. The email warnings are being sent by Hadopi via France’s ISPs. But even at this early stage at least one ISP is refusing to forward them to their customers prompting complaints from rivals that they are seeking to achieve a competitive advantage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tasmanian homes and businesses will automatically be connected to the National Broadband Network unless they actively refuse — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Anyone who owns a laptop computer can now fight crime from the safety of their home and win cash prizes for catching thieves red-handed, under a new British monitoring scheme that went live this week — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Next time you flush the toilet, you could be doing your bit for green energy. After being stored for 18 days, human waste will from today be returning to homes in the form of renewable gas.
Centrica is opening a plant at Didcot sewage works which will be the first in the UK to produce renewable gas for households to use.
National Grid believes that at least 15% of all gas consumed could be made from sewage slurry, old sandwiches and other food thrown away by supermarkets, as well as organic waste created by businesses such as breweries — via djd.newsvine.com
A change to the murder law has come into force, allowing people who faced domestic violence to claim they were forced to kill their abuser — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When rioters took to the streets of Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, in September, the government swiftly called out the police. When investigators discovered that protesters mobilized via text messaging, the government called on private cellphone firms to turn off text messaging — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Privacy concerns for Google’s Street View may now extend to penguins, following the service’s extension to a seventh continent – Antarctica — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Thailand’s 78-year-old queen has been admitted to hospital in Bangkok, where she was visited on Friday by her husband King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who has himself been hospitalised for the past year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Federal Government has cut funding to a national flying squad of disease detecting specialists that has been operating for nearly 20 years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A state of emergency has been declared in Ecuador after President Rafael Correa accused the opposition and security forces of a coup attempt — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tasmania’s Cabinet Secretary has congratulated police for refusing to allow a Hobart lawyer to shoot native animals at his local golf club — via redwolf.newsvine.com
French police are hunting thieves who sneaked on to a farmer’s land under cover of darkness and harvested his entire crop of cabernet sauvignon grapes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US copyright reforms set to pull the rug from pirate-pushing websites leaves the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) for dead, according to a copyright lawyer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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