The Federal Privacy Commissioner’s office has begun investigations into complaints about non-compliance with Australia’s new privacy legislation
The ambassadors of four European countries have joined forces to plead for urgent action to improve the state of language teaching in Britain’s state schools
A big thanks to Dr Louise from Camden Valley Animal Hospital for staying back after hours on a Sunday to stitch up my dog after an encounter with an immovable object — the grey dog is a bit stiff but otherwise doing fine
Australia’s first super-network has survived a punishing test, running high-end 3D and video applications without any loss of quality against a traffic load equivalent to Sydney’s phone system at peak-hour. The maiden voyage of the 10Gbps Ethernet, dubbed Super-Net, showed that a faster, more reliable internet is possible
Software giant Microsoft was met with incredulity when it went to Canberra to present a privately formulated blueprint for the Australian information technology industry
Computer scientists and IT specialists are on the FBI’s most-wanted list as it seeks to hire 900 new special agents this year
Sun Microsystems has joined a program called Auto-ID to build wireless digital identification tags into everything from razor blades to soup cans
A buffer overflow attack — an attack in which the amount of memory allotted to an application is overrun — against the Telnet service could cause a denial of service, or in some cases, allow the attacker to run any code they wanted in Windows 2000 or Interix 2.2, Microsoft says in its alert
A fire in a Swiss warehouse destroyed between 3.5 and four million Easter chocolate bunnies. The fire swept a central distribution warehouse containing nearly half of the total output needed to cover demand at Migros, Switzerland’s largest retailer
Japanese police have arrested Yoshiko Nakahara who refused to bury her dead mother and instead kept the body in a bed in her apartment for nearly a year
Sun Microsystems Chief Scientist Bill Joy says an ambitious security push outlined by Bill Gates last month is likely to fail because of fundamental flaws in the security design of Microsoft applications
Despite facing massive user criticism over claims that it’s product quality is sub-par, Nokia Australia has confirmed that prices for its mobile handset prices are likely to rise this year
MSN Australia has admitted users remain at risk from a privacy hole, despite having known about the vulnerability since Tuesday
A security researcher will detail a bevy of software flaws in Oracle’s flagship database at the Black Hat Windows Security Briefings in New Orleans this week, busting up the company’s promise that the program is unbreakable
Despite being the world’s lingua franca, English is the most difficult European language to learn to read. Children learning other languages master the basic elements of literacy within a year, but British kids take two-and-a-half years to reach the same point.
Telstra came under fire on two fronts yesterday as it moved to shut down a budget e-mail service and charge some small businesses up to $126 as part of a White Pages directory revamping
France’s highest court upheld a three-month jail term this week for José Bové, hero of the international anti-globalisation movement, over his ransacking of a McDonald’s restaurant to protest US trade barriers
The dream of teleporting atoms and molecules — and maybe even larger objects — has become a real possibility for the first time. The advance is thanks to physicists who have suggested a method that in theory could be used to entangle absolutely any kind of particle
A 35-year-old man, Paul McNamara, clung to a navigation beacon for almost an hour after surviving an attack by a shark which took a large chunk out of his kayak on the Parramatta River in Sydney’s inner-west last night
A passenger tried to force his way into the locked cockpit of a United Airlines flight halfway from Miami to Argentina on Thursday, but pilots hit him with a fire-axe and subdued him
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