NSW Police’s understaffed high-tech crime unit will be swallowed up by a new unit, the State Electronic Evidence Branch, that will give the state one of the nation’s biggest computer forensics capabilities
Augustine Chihuri, Zimbabwe’s police commissioner, who is accused of being a driving force behind President Robert Mugabe’s brutal repression of opponents, has been appointed honorary vice-president of Interpol
The ACT has proposed law reforms to remove discrimination in the Adoption Act and will enable gay and lesbian couples to adopt children
While Earthlink celebrates a US$16 million judgement against a New York spam ring, the ISP faces a legal challenge to its new anti-spam system
The liberal enclave of West Hollywood, which has long championed the rights of gay men and women, this week became the first city in the United States to ban pet owners from removing the claws of their cats
Kermit the Frog and the rest of the Muppets are heading home after their German parent company, EM.TV & Merchandising, agreed to sell them back to their original owners, the children of Muppets creator Jim Henson — beating out Disney and Sony
The age of consent for homosexual men will be lowered to 16 but will be buffered by tough new penalties for child sexual assault by adults in positions of trust, under an overhaul of NSW sex crime laws
Hate-filled emails targeting African-Americans, Arabs and Muslims flooded the inboxes of undergraduate students during a recent hacking spree at NYU’s Stern School of Business
Foxtel subscribers will be able to access 53 new channels and the ability to pause live television under a package providing new set-top boxes from early next year
Arnott’s claims the Temptin’ chocolate biscuits sold by Dick Smith Foods unfairly cash in on the good name of its famous Tim Tams and is breaching trademark rules
The RSPCA plans to build a memorial to the hundreds of thousands of horses, donkeys, dogs and pigeons and other animals that died fighting Australia’s wars
Two serious flaws in AOL’s ICQ software could allow an online attacker to take control of a person’s PC
US states may sue charitable solicitation firms for fraud if they pocket most donations for their own use and mislead potential donors about that fact
New technology can mean an end to old liberties and there’s little we can do to stop the surveillance state. But maybe we can turn the cameras on the watchers
If two upcoming trade pacts get signed by the retarded monkey boy, the US government could paradoxically find itself accused of breaking the very copyright law it nowadays uses to prosecute others
Documents reveal how McCarthy cherry-picked victims he could browbeat into submission
French police have broken up a gang of crooked baggage handlers who used X-ray machines to select items worth looting from travellers at the country’s busiest airport
A rocket-powered sled shot down a 3-mile straightaway at Holloman AFB in about six seconds to break a world record that had stood for two decades
Bruce Simpson has launched a project to build a US$5000 DIY cruise missile
David Strom went in search of the oldest running commercial software application with interesting results
A new IE exploit was found that crashes almost any version of Internet Explorer past 4.0 with just five lines of plain HTML code — via Slashdot
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