A senior Tibetan official says the Chinese government will decide on a successor for the Dalai Lama. But such an appointment flies in the face of the spiritual leader’s prediction that his reincarnation will be found outside China
The high-speed Southern Cross Cable connecting Australia to the United States is to be reconfigured in light of service disruptions due to damage from a ship’s anchor late last month. The Southern Cross Cable Network is taking steps to enhance the self-restoring ability of the network
A world-renowned Roman Catholic scholar says he has found evidence that the Catholic church sanctioned and blessed same-sex relationships from the Middle Ages to the 19th century
The real motive for raw socket support is for Microsoft to use Windows XP to exploit a bad situation, to deliberately make things worse. Microsoft wants to replace TCP/IP with a proprietary protocol that it will tout as being more secure
A growing number of online companies are ambushing competitors through software that puts ads where marketers want them most — in front of customers visiting rival web sites
Early reports had a band of armed hostage-takers storming the Colombian consulate, but all the machine-guns, automatic rifles and shotguns seen were in the hands of Sydney police
It’s kind of a drag to track a turtle for months and find out someone ate it
An ambitious three-year mission to catch a piece of the sun and safely return that sample to Earth was successfully hurled on its way into deep space Wednesday atop a Delta 2 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral
Man has always had trouble understanding exactly what his best friend is trying to say. But a new gadget released in Japan is trying to reduce the lingual divide between dog and its owner
Animal rights groups are threatening to launch a boycott of next year’s soccer World Cup unless the South Korean government clamps down on the sale of dog meat
Rob Rosenberger is determined to shine the bright light of sarcasm into every dark corner of the computer security industry. He carefully reviews the press coverage of every virus alert and rips into reporters who mindlessly repeat whatever facts
they may have been fed by their sources
A Queensland grazier has developed a high-tech computer tracking system to help graziers crack down on cattle rustlers
Australian e-commerce security company eSec has partnered with US-based security-software developer and trainer Foundstone to bring Foundstone’s Ultimate Hacking: Hands On course down under
The National Crime Authority has called for a medically supervised heroin trial to help combat the drug trafficking and money laundering cycle which was fuelling the pervasive spread of organised crime, but Australia’s spineless Prime Minister, John Howard, has rejected the suggestion
Four inmates made a spectacular escape from a Swiss prison overnight by tying a rope from their cell to a tree beyond the jail’s perimeter fence, aided by a computer mouse
A US federal appeals court has ruled that firing a person because of their sexual orientation is legal
Telstra’s troubles have accelerated, with service difficulties on its ADSL broadband network spreading nation-wide
Software piracy could cost Logicworld as much as AU$250,000 — the largest penalty to be slapped on an Australian company to date
A Princeton professor, Professor Edward Felten, is suing the Secure Digital Music Initiative group for blocking his publication of research on cracking the security of digital music
Researchers are putting the finishing touches to a $1.25 million supersonic rocket which will be launched at Woomera on 23 October
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