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Tuesday, 18-March-2014 17:40:16 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The Attorney-General's office has suggested new laws to expose encrypted data. Australia's Attorney-General's department wants new laws to force users and providers of encrypted internet communications services to decode any data intercepted by authorities. The proposal is buried in a submission (pdf) by the department to a Senate inquiry on revision of the Telecommunications Interception Act. There's also a suggestion that browser history be retained by ISPs.
Coincidentally (or not), Google will be encrypting searches soon. The tech behemoth plans to make users' searches more private as part of the company's broader campaign to push back against hackers and government surveillance. They've already started in China as a show of defiance against the country's infamous censors.
The European Union have voted in favour of a universal charger for mobile phones. A common charger for mobile phones sold in the European Union should be developed in order to reduce waste and hassle for consumers, according to MEPs voting on an update to radio equipment laws this week.
CeBIT 2014 is on in Hannover Germany, and MadShrimps have a quick tour and some Fractal Design info. Swedish designer Fractal was represented by their PR team at the Resellers booth. Fractal is known for their build quality and refined aesthetics, yet still able to sell their designs at an affordable price. Highlight for CeBIT 2014 was their latest Node 804 design.
HotHardware checked out Thief Mantle performance. Today AMD and Square Enix release an updated driver and patch for Thief which adds support for Mantle. Here we take a quick look at some performance figures.
Phoronix have been playing with 4K Ultra HD on Ubuntu. With the release of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" right around the corner we have out today some new benchmarks of various AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards when testing them with the latest Linux GPU drivers on Ubuntu 14.04 at 4K (3840 x 2160).
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