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Edward Snowden has provided details of Australia's involvement in the NSA surveillance program. The US Australian Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap near Alice Springs and three Australian Signals Directorate facilities: the Shoal Bay Receiving Station near Darwin, the Australian Defence Satellite Communications Facility at Geraldton and the naval communications station HMAS Harman outside Canberra are among contributors to the NSA's collection program codenamed X-Keyscore.
HP have been fined $3M for misleading customers, thanks MoJoMaN. In a contrite statement, HP, which has annual turnover of more than $120 billion, said: "We deeply regret that in the instances identified by the ACCC, HP fell short of our core commitment to high standards of service for Australian consumers who purchased our HP-branded desktop computers ... laptops and printers and of our duties under Australian consumer laws."
Phoronix have compared Haswell Linux Virtualisation options. The latest chapter to our lengthy Intel Haswell on Linux saga is virtualization benchmarks. From Fedora 19 with the very latest software components for Linux virtualization, the performance of KVM, Xen, and VirtualBox were benchmarked from the Intel Core i7 4770K "Haswell" CPU.
Australia's international motor show has been cancelled for next year as well as this year. Russ Tyrie, event director for the motor show, says there will not be a show in Australia next year, but said he is looking at alternative formats for the future. “After careful consideration, we have made the decision to not proceed with the 2014 Australian International Motor Show,” he says. “This does not mean the end for Motor Shows in Australia though, with the AIMS Joint Venture currently developing and planning a concept for future Motor Shows.
From the Attorney-General's office: The Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus QC, and the Minister Assisting for the Digital Economy, Senator Kate Lundy, today released a policy for the Government’s use of cloud computing which will ensure Government agencies can take advantage of the opportunities enabled by cloud computing and the National Broadband Network while maintaining the privacy, security, integrity and availability of personal information. Details are on this site.
Also of interest is that Australia will soon have a ballistic information network. “This is a ballistic system that gives police the power to be able to do what is effectively a fingerprint of a firearm, and trace it or link it to crimes that have been committed across the country.” Mr Clare said. “Each firearm leaves a unique imprint on the bullet it fires. When police seize a firearm they can fire the weapon, put the details into the database and link that weapon to other crimes.“
The BBC have followed ESPN in ditching 3D. The BBC has been running a trial in which it films and broadcasts certain sports events and dramatic productions in 3D. Although this trial is still not over—the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special in November will be one of the final 3D broadcasts—the decision has been made: once the trial ends, 3D will be abandoned, at least until 2016.
SpaceX have performed another test launch and landing of their incredible hovering rocket, the Grashopper. On June 14, SpaceX's Grasshopper flew 325 m (1066 feet)--higher than Manhattan's Chrysler Building--before smoothly landing back on the pad. It really bends my brain to see a rocket doing that.~
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