Tag: australia
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Project aims to map giant galactic clouds of gas where stars are born
from UPI.com: Australia say they’ve begun to map the location of the most massive and mysterious objects in our galaxy, giant gas clouds where stars are born. Using a giant radio telescope in southeastern Australia, the researchers have identified the galactic clouds of molecular gas — some up to 100 light-years across — from the…
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ACCC directs water companies to remove ‘organic’ claims
from apperspective.net: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has directed seven suppliers of bottled water to remove ‘organic’ claims from labelling and marketing material. An eighth supplier has withdrawn its product from sale. The changes come as a result of negotiations between the ACCC and the manufacturers, and mean enforcement action will be avoided.…
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Snowden reveals Australia’s links to US spy web
from theage.com.au: Edward Snowden has provided his first disclosure of Australian involvement in US global surveillance, identifying four facilities in the country that contribute to a key American intelligence collection program. Classified US National Security Agency maps leaked by Mr Snowden and published by US journalist Glenn Greenwald in the Brazilian O Globo newspaper reveal…
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Monsanto lifts stake, angers farmers in Australia
from news.yahoo.com: Monsanto has increased its stake in local crop breeding company InterGrain in a move condemned by a group of farmers fearful of links to the global agribusiness giant. The Australian arm of Monsanto paid $4.5 million to increase its shareholding from 19.9 per cent to 26 per cent yesterday under a partnership with…
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#Prism: Australia gets ‘deluge’ of US secret data
from apperspective.net: The Australian government has been building a state-of-the art, secret data storage facility just outside Canberra to enable intelligence agencies to deal with a ”data deluge” siphoned from the internet and global telecommunications networks. The high-security facility nearing completion at the HMAS Harman communications base will support the operations of Australia’s signals intelligence…
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Australian Police Use Drones to “Combat Crime” Ahead of G20
The Courier-Mail can reveal Police Minister the aircraft in time for the trans-national G20 conference in November next year.
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Australia’s Top Hackers Uncovered In Tournament
Bunkered down in rooms across the nation, 43 teams of students spent 24 busy hours hacking IT systems non-stop this week. Their challenge? To uncover flaws in a fictitious company’s IT systems.
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LulzSec arrest in Australia
from Guardian.co.uk: Federal police charge IT worker, 24, with attacking government website and say he has claimed to be a leader of hacker group. Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with the international hacking collective LulzSec on a charge of attacking and defacing a government website. The 24-year-old senior IT worker,…
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Through a Glass Dimly: Australia’s New Cyber Security Policy
from apperspective.net: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced that $1.46 billion has been set aside by the Australian federal government to strengthen cyber networks as part of a National Security Strategy (PDF).
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Australia To Host U.S. Space Radar and Telescope
Australia will host two United States space surveillance systems as part of closer military ties agreed to at a bilateral security summit yesterday.
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Australia Comes To Its Senses, Abandons Internet Filtering Regime
The Australian government has now, after years of testing and preparing, formally abandoned a plan to filter its domestic Internet. Officials now say that it will use Interpol’s “worst of” child abuse site list as a way to shield Ozzies from truly awful content.
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Drones fly through privacy law loophole
from ap-perspective.blogspot.com: Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has warned it may be impossible to use Australia’s privacy laws to prevent someone from being filmed secretly in their own home by a drone. He says he is confident the Federal Privacy Act would control the actions of government agencies or businesses operating a drone for surveillance.…
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#DataDump: #Mars, Meteorite, Mystery and more
Curiosity Lands Safely on Mars – “most high-tech interplanetary rover ever built sent a signal to Earth”* Man will walk on Mars within a generation, says Astronomer Royal* 14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite* Opening the X-Files in Australia* Proposed Privacy Law Demands Court Warrants for Cloud Data* Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping* Flame…