Victoria will speed up the development of a AU$31.2 million high-speed fibre optic network for academics by piggybacking on an existing network used for railway services
Many individuals currently without permanent housing still manage to stay connected via a mobile phone, laptop or some other gadget. Many homeless have email addresses and find that it offers them a way to get their foot back in the door of normal
society via Slashdot
A security start-up is borrowing a technique from the research labs to try to give Internet Explorer PCs relief from Web-based attacks. GreenBorder Technologies, a venture-backed start-up, plans to release on Tuesday a security tool that puts Microsoft’s IE in a virtual sandbox. Called GreenBorder Pro, the product uses virtualisation technology similar to what researchers at antivirus companies have been using for years. In a virtual environment, malicious software is allowed to execute, but it can’t touch the underlying operating system
Mediaware, a tiny Canberra tech firm, has won a multimillion-dollar deal to supply digital video systems to next-generation US spy planes, staking its claim as one of Australia’s best performing software exporters
France has given the thumbs-up to the defanged version of a controversial law that would have forced Apple Computer to open up its iTunes digital rights management to players other than its iPod
The banking details of thousands of Australians have been revealed and an international police investigation jeopardised in a bungle by Australia’s peak internet crime-fighting agency. The details of 3500 customers from 18 banks, including names and account numbers, were lost when a classified computer dossier on Russian mafia phishing
scams was misplaced by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre in April last year
Number two telco Optus has already signed supply agreements with at least one party as it moves closer to giving ISPs wholesale access to its extensive new high-speed broadband network
While the underseat storage is somewhat lacking on the Honda Lead 100, I did find out that I can stick a pide box into one of those green bags from Coles and attach it to the vindaloo hook in the footwell.
The handle length isn’t too long, so wild swinging is avoided in transit and the bag sits comfortably between my feet without becoming an annoyance.
The vindaloo hook is a good thing. It brings me delicious pide goodness.
LiveJournal recently introduced an ad-supported level. Over the last few days an advertiser used an ad to install the ErrorSafe malware that tried to trick people into believing they had a fault on the computer that needs them to purchase a fix. The ad used a server-side setting and targetted only those outside the US, to prevent LiveJournal’s own checks from noticing it. LiveJournal has apologised for the ad and slow response — via Slashdot
University of Helsinki chemist Anatoli Bogdan reports that cells, tissues, and perhaps the body, could be cryopreserved without suffering damage from ice crystals — via Boing Boing
Researchers led by the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy are developing robots that evolve their own language, bypassing the limits of imposing human rule-based communication. The technology, dubbed Embedded and Communicating Agents, has allowed researchers at Sony’s Computer Science Laboratory in France to add a new level of intelligence to the AIBO dog. The robot dog has learnt to see a ball and tell another one where the ball is, if it’s moving and what colour it is, and the other is capable of recognising it
TorrentSpy named the hacker who it claims broke into its computer systems on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), as part of a legal request that would force the MPAA to turn over documents stolen from the Internet file-searching company
Family First senator Steve Fielding made a string of nuisance
calls to journalists yesterday to expose politicians’ power to bombard the public after they were exempted from new do-not-call laws
Fourteen staff at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Wales have been sacked and 101 disciplined after they swapped so many pornographic e-mails that it affected the organisation’s mainframe computer
Hasbrouck Heights Library Director Michele Reutty is under fire for refusing to give police library circulation records without a subpoena. Her lawyer explained; Reutty did the right thing… At no time did Michele Reutty say to any police officer or anybody else that she would not give the information if it was properly requested.
However, borough labor lawyer, the exceedingly dim and clueless Ellen Horn, who also represented the library trustees, said Reutty was more interested in protecting
her library than helping the police
MacBook Pro batteries are apparently swelling, then failing. MacFixIt has pictures of their own swollen MacBook Pro battery, which looks like it has suffered an internal explosion. Apple is replacing batteries on a case-by-case basis, but hasn’t yet admitted any wide-scale issues
Giant superheated bubbles of gas are drifting towards Earth and popping as they encounter our planet’s magnetic field, new findings reveal. Researchers suspect the bubbles may actually feed the bow shock
that is created where the solar wind rams into our planet’s magnetic field
Scientists have used embryonic stem cells and a soup of nerve-friendly chemicals to not just bridge a damaged spinal cord but actually regrow the circuitry needed to move a muscle, helping partially paralysed rats walk
Monash University researchers are $100,000 richer after their technology, which enables speedier internet downloads, was named as an outstanding commercialisation opportunity
A 46-year-old man on a motorcycle was struck by lightning and killed Wednesday evening while riding in rush hour traffic on the Boulder Turnpike. Witnesses said they saw a flash of light just before the yellow motorcycle crashed into the center concrete divider. It is unknown if the man was killed by the lightning strike or by the crash that followed
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