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Bismillah writes:
Following the example of the Dutch who enacted laws supporting network neutrality, EU is now looking at doing the same. No throttling or blocking over the top providers such as Skype and Whatsapp in the EU and there will be a service transparency requirement for ISPs so that people know what they're buying — like minimum speed. Be interesting to see how this pans out.
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aesoteric writes:
A man's backyard beer fridge in Australia has been busted interfering with the cellular network of major carrier Telstra. Engineers used an internally-developed software "robot" to crawl log files from the network and sent a field team out to pinpoint the cause of the interference.
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littlekorea writes:
Open source advocates have successfully waged a campaign to halt voting on a proposed geospatial standard sponsored by mapping giant Esri. Protestors claimed that designating the 'GeoServices REST API' as an industry standard would have guaranteed further dominance for Esri's industry-leading ArcGIS server and replicated existing open standards. The unfolding case smacks of Microsoft's efforts to have the OOXML format approved as an ISO/IEC standard — only in this case, it appears Esri has backed down, while the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) does some soul searching on what a standard should achieve.
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AlbanX writes:
The 24 year old arrested yesterday on hacking charges has been named by his employer.
Matthew Flannery works for IT security firm Content Security and has been charged with defacing a government website.
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AlbanX writes:
An IT professional working in Sydney has been arrested for hacking a government website as part of the LulzSec movement.
The 24 year old man, residing in Point Clare, was arrested at his workplace late yesterday.
He claimed to be the leader of the hacker movement.
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littlekorea writes:
The BOINC team at the University of Berkeley have started porting citizen science apps to Android, so soon you'll be able to cure diseases or map galaxies with your smartphone. It's hoped that this will renew interest in altruistic volunteer computing projects. But will users offer up their compute hours to research projects when an alternative is to mine for Bitcoins? Is today's generation too selfish to contribute to citizen science?
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Bismillah writes:
Ever wondered what happens to your Apple account when you die? Unless a death certificate is provided, it'll remain active under current policies. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/339056,apple-user-you8217ll-be-one-for-life.aspx
Or, you could enter bogus data into the account but that would require some serious forethought to achieve before you die...
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Bismillah writes:
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists http://www.icij.org/ used indexing software employed by law enforcement, regulators and tax authorities to go through the 260 GB unstructured data dump with information on trusts and shell companies set up off shore by the mega rich and powerful to avoid tax http://www.itnews.com.au/News/338723,aussie-software-ferrets-out-hidden-money.aspx .
Apparently, a regular desktop could index that 260GB in six to seven hours.
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littlekorea writes:
Mining companies are developing new systems for automating blasting of iron ore using the same open source physics engines adapted for games such as Grand Theft Auto IV and Red Dead Redemption. The same engine that determines 3D collision detection and soft body/rigid body dynamics in gaming will be applied to building 3D blast movement models — which will predict where blasted materials will land and distinguish between ore and waste.
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littlekorea writes:
A data analyst has successfully predicted the top ten songs of the world's biggest song contest — the Triple J Hottest 100 — by extrapolating voting intentions fans had posted on Twitter and Facebook. Nick Drewe's Warmest 100 list closely mimicked the Hottest 100 results, predicting the top three in correct order and predicting 92 of the most popular 100 songs.
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littlekorea writes:
DARPA has called on telcos and military contractors to help it design and deploy a sleeper network of drones and other war technology to be deployed on the ocean floor and awoken during times of war or crisis in a given region.
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littlekorea writes:
The latest generation of Cisco Nexus data centre switches offer several cooling options to fit in with a data centre's airflow, but large and savvy customers continue to buy end-of-row when they're actually after top-of-rack. iTnews discovers why.
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littlekorea writes:
Australia's telcos have declared that SMS technology should not be used by banks to verify identities for online banking transactions, in a bid to wash their hands of culpability for phone porting hacks. But three of Australia's largest four banks insist they will continue to use SMS messages to carry authentication codes for transactions.
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littlekorea writes:
The Australian Government has officially abandoned plans to legislate a mandatory internet filter. The news ends a four-year campaign by the ruling party to implement legislation that would have compelled ISPs to block a list of URLs dictated by Australia's telecommunications regulator, the ACMA. ISPs have instead been told to block a list of known child pornography sites maintained by INTERPOL.
