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Australia now has a National Plan to Combat Cybercrime. "This plan represents a national commitment to work together to ensure a safer and more secure digital environment for all Australians," Mr Dreyfus said. "While it brings tremendous benefits, the internet has created new opportunities for financially motivated cyber criminals and those who seek to target vulnerable members of our community. Organised criminals are increasingly using the internet and legitimate communications tools to target Australians and to facilitate their illegal activities."
Back issues of BYTE Magazine have been added to the Internet Archive. Whereas many magazines from the mid-1980s had been dedicated to the MS-DOS (PC) platform or the Mac, mostly from a business or home user's perspective, Byte covered developments in the entire field of "small computers and software", and sometimes other computing fields such as supercomputers and high-reliability computing. Coverage was in-depth with much technical detail, rather than user-oriented. In fact it seems there's lots of magazines in there.
The Obama administration have overturned an Apple ban in the USA. The president’s veto comes in response to a ruling made by the USITC in June, granting the South Korean electronics giant Samsung’s request for an import ban on older iPhones and iPads, which the ITC found to infringe one of Samsung’s standards-essential patents. The order would have affected only AT&T iPhone models prior to the 4S, as well as the iPad 2 and earlier iPad versions. “We applaud the administration for standing up for innovation in this landmark case. Samsung was wrong to abuse the patent system in this way,” an Apple spokeswoman told AllThingsD.
Meanwhile they're in hot water over alleged e-book price-fixing. Apple should be banned from entering anti-competitive e-book distribution contracts for five years and should end its business ties with five publishers with which it conspired to raise e-book prices, federal and state regulators said on Friday.
AMD have released some beta drivers designed to address the frame stuttering issue, with coverage on HardOCP, Anandtech, HotHardware and HWHeaven. Average and minimum framerates remain an important aspect of results but a card must deliver frames without delay to give us a truly smooth gaming experience. So over the last few months this aspect of performance has been receiving attention from both NVIDIA and AMD. Today AMD deliver what they hope is a beta driver which addresses frame pacing as they call it in certain scenarios.
Tech Report have news on Intel's plans to reinvent the datacentre. Yet Intel did precisely the opposite of what you might expect. Diane Bryant, Senior VP and GM of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, used her opening keynote to project a somewhat radical vision of the data center of the future. In this vision, nearly every component of the data center—from servers to switches to storage to network appliances—will be re-architected to offer more flexibility and configurability.
Here's the details on that 3D printed DB4 from NZ mentioned in Misc Pics recently, thanks irvo44. Meanwhile it was also done for the latest James Bond film, thanks Sphinx2000. Producers have utilized the revolutionary technology of 3D printed cars instead of destroying the ultra-luxurious Aston Martins. If a car was lost in a shot, or if a shot needed to be redone, the producers were able to simply print another car, using a large scale 3D printer.
Some new malware is attacking TOR users and seems to be unmasking their anonymity, with fingers pointed squarely at the USA Feds. The malware showed up Sunday morning on multiple websites hosted by the anonymous hosting company Freedom Hosting. That would normally be considered a blatantly criminal “drive-by” hack attack, but nobody’s calling in the FBI this time. The FBI is the prime suspect. Update: or rather the NSA, much to nobody's surprise, thanks crag_v.
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