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Submission + - Saudi Arabia blocks Amnesty International (cio.com.au)

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swandives

on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @03:38AM

swandives writes: "Saudi Arabia appears to have blocked the website of human rights organization Amnesty International after it published an analysis that said a proposed anti-terrorist law in the kingdom could be directed against peaceful protests.

Amnesty, which has its international secretariat in London, said its international website had been blocked in Saudi Arabia following the organization's criticism of the draft anti-terror law."

Submission + - Windows 8 is coming in 2012 (cio.com.au)

Submitted by swandives on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @04:15AM

swandives writes: Microsoft's next version of the Windows operating system, dubbed Windows 8, will debut in 2012, company CEO Steve Ballmer told an audience of software developers in Tokyo.

Lots of people have pegged 2012 as the year for the next Windows release, but it is the first time that the company has officially confirmed the 2012 date. Ballmers said: "As we look forward to the next generation of Windows systems, which will come out next year, there's a whole lot more coming," according to a transcript of his speech posted to Microsoft's website.

Submission + - Jive buys OffiSync to deepen links with Microsoft (cio.com.au)

Submitted by swandives on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @12:07AM

swandives writes: Jive Software has acquired OffiSync, whose technology links Microsoft desktop applications with Cloud-based enterprise social collaboration suites.

OffiSync is based in Seattle and its engineering team runs out of Israel. The comany has 12 employees and is led by former Microsoft officials.

Jive Software already uses OffiSync technology to integrate with Office and SharePoint. The company plans to extend the links with the Microsoft products and add a bridge to Outlook.

Submission + - Society saved by the social network: ANU poll (arnnet.com.au)

Submitted by splitenz on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @10:37PM

splitenz writes: Hallelujah, we're all good citizens and being a Net junkie is good for you, according to the latest ANUpoll from the Australian National University. Probably the first poll in a while to counter the myth that the Net socially isolates users.

Submission + - What the robots saw inside Fukushima (cio.com.au)

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swandives

on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @07:35PM

swandives writes: "The first images provided by robots from inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are in, following the massive March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

A pair of iRobot Packbots entered three of the reactor units on Sunday and Monday. Their job was to survey the conditions inside and help Tokyo Electric Power and evaluate whether it is safe to send humans in to continue the cleanup. It's expected to take up to nine months to bring the plant to a cold shutdown — if it can be done."

Submission + - Change.org suffers DDoS attack from China (cio.com.au)

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swandives

on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @02:15AM

swandives writes: "The online petitioning platform, Change.org, has come under an ongoing DDoS attack originating from China after the site hosted a call urging Chinese authorities to release artist Ai Weiwei from custody.

It's the first time the site has been hit with a DDoS attack. Change.org has been hosting a online petition calling for the release of the Chinese artist, who is currently under arrest. The petition has attracted almost 100,000 people from 175 countries, making it one of Change.org's most successful international campaigns."

Submission + - Doctor Who's Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane), dead (npr.org)

Submitted by Doofus on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @11:07PM

Doofus writes: NPR reports that Elisabeth Sladen, who played the Doctor's assistant Sarah Jane, has died. Sladen played opposite Jon Pertwee and then Tom Baker, and eventually earned her own show. BBC stories here, including a picture with K9, and here.

Submission + - Tor ported to android by Guardian Project (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @08:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: Works better with but does not require root. They provide an associated browser, which only works with Android 1.x. The project homepage is https://guardianproject.info/

Submission + - Robots enter Fukushima reactor building (cio.com.au)

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swandives

on Sunday April 17, 2011 @08:05PM

swandives writes: "For the first time, a pair of remote controlled robots have entered a reactor building at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power hopes the iRobot Packbots will be able to provide data on the current condition inside the buildings, although the company hasn't yet released any information on what they found inside."

Submission + - Hacker breaks into Flordia wind turbine systems (computerworld.com.au) 1

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angry tapir

on Sunday April 17, 2011 @07:26PM

angry tapir writes: "Claiming revenge for an "illegitimate firing," someone has posted screenshots and other data, apparently showing that he was able to break a 200 megawat wind turbine system owned by NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of Florida Power & Light. The data was posted to the Full Disclossure security mailing list anonymously, by someone using the name "Bgr R.""

Submission + - Fukushima Daiichi workers clear debris by remote (techworld.com.au)

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swandives

on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @09:39PM

swandives writes: "Workers at Japan's damaged nuclear power plant are using unmanned vehicles to clear radioactive debris from the site. The effects of the magnitude-9.0 earthquake, tsunami and two hydrogen explosions in reactor buildings have left the Fukushima Daiichi site covered in rubble and debris and some of it has high levels of radioactivity. Includes photos."

Submission + - Aust hacker releases open source Django apps (cio.com.au)

Submitted by swandives on Friday March 18, 2011 @07:27PM

swandives writes: Melbourne-based software engineer Stephen McDonald has released two open source projects built with the Django framework. McDonald manages the Mezzanine CMS and Cartridge e-commerce projects at his own Jupo System portal – Jupo.org.

Having worked with ASP and PHP, McDonald turned his attention to Python and Ruby about five years ago when investigating Web application technologies.

Submission + - iiNet v AFACT: piracy plan (cio.com.au)

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swandives

on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @03:20AM

swandives writes: "Australian ISP, iiNet, has released a discussion paper which the ISP hopes will generate productive public discussion about online content and a model for policing copyright infringement. Here are some of the highlights in pictures, including links to the PDF of the paper."

Submission + - Turing Papers Saved At Bletchley Park (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 24, 2011 @08:03PM

An anonymous reader writes: The fight to get a rare collection of computing pioneer Alan Turing's papers saved for display at the Bletchley Park facility where he once worked, now a museum, has succeeded with last-minute funding from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.

Submission + - Drupal "unofficially competes" as framework (benbuckman.net)

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tgeller

on Thursday February 24, 2011 @04:57PM

tgeller writes: "Drupal developer Ben Buckman attended the BostonPHP Framework Bake-Off with the hopes of pitting the CMS against CakePHP, Symfony, Zend, and CodeIgniter. He was told that he couldn't because Drupal is "not a framework", a response he felt was "coder-purist snobbery ('it's not a framework if you build any of it in a UI')".

So he decided to unofficially compete in the back of the room by accepting the challenge of building job-posting app in 30 minutes, while the official competitors did the same from the stage. He recorded the results, which are impressive. In the process he raised the question: What *is* a framework, anyway?"

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