A Catholic primary school in Melbourne has banned the use of bandaids to treat students, apparently because it is afraid of being sued
Telstra White Pages Online temporarily became the gateway to one of cyberspace’s red light districts yesterday. It appears that pranksters conspired to redirect the site’s traffic to a pornography portal
A flaw in a software-compression library used in all versions of Linux could leave the lion’s share of systems based on the open-source operating system open to attack, sources in the security community have said
Is NSW heading for a brave new world of Internet censorship where, by protecting some, we effectively block access to all?
Sources inside AOL and Red Hat say AOL is making a major internal switch to Linux, and the long-rumoured AOL default browser switch from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to Mozilla — or at least Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine — is well under way, but AOL will probably not offer an AOL client for Linux in the foreseeable future
A big thanks to Kevin at The Comic Box for his fast and efficient service in shipping back issue comics halfway around the planet
Floundering conservation group Earth Sanctuaries said last week it may have found a saviour for its collection of threatened animals, such as quolls and woylies, with 12 groups putting forward final rescue bids
Three key players in the children-overboard affair have been gagged by the Howard Government and will be prevented from appearing before a Senate inquiry
Kenneth Feinberg, the head of the 11 September Victim Compensation Fund — a fund created by Congress and run by the Department of Justice — said that gay partners of the heroes of 11 September will not necessarily be eligible for the same compensation as heterosexual family members who lost their loved ones
ComAURegister, a company that misled small businesses into believing it dealt with Internet domain name registrations, will be forced to cough up customer refunds, retract false information and contribute to legal fees, following action in Federal Court, Brisbane
After receiving 35,000 phone calls following 11 September, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has pushed forward plans to implement an online project aimed at tracking Australians living overseas
The staid folks at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have been caught in a political flap after they linked to a — gasp! — site that advocates a positive attitude towards sexuality
About 25,000 OzEmail customers were unable to receive email for nearly 13 hours this week because of a software fault. Customers of Australia’s second largest internet service provider complained email was blacked out for most of Tuesday
The US government has approved the creation of a .kids.us domain, containing only material safe for children to view
Microsoft’s plans to launch Xbox in Australia are unchanged despite sales being suspending in two large Japanese electronics retailers
Amazon.com said Wednesday that it has settled its long-running patent-infringement suit against Barnes&Noble.com over its 1-Click checkout system. The details of the settlement were not disclosed
Network computer maker Sun Microsystems is suing software giant Microsoft for anti-competitive behaviour. The company said on Friday that it is seeking more than $1bn in damages from Microsoft for making its Windows XP operating system incompatible with Sun’s Java programming language
Empty cans of Pringles crisps could be helping malicious hackers spot wireless networks that are open to attack. Security company i-sec has demonstrated that a directional antenna made with a Pringles can significantly improves the chances of finding the wireless computer networks being used in London’s financial district
Australia’s top-secret satellite spy agency, the Defence Signals Directorate, has been given sweeping new powers to report on Australians to the Federal Government
A new tabletop device said to generate a long-sought laboratory version of nuclear fusion has been called into question even before it was formally announced
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