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Assange named Le Monde Man of the Year – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been named "Man of the Year" by French newspaper Le Monde. (tags: WikiLeaks JulianAssange LeMonde ABC)

Banks and WikiLeaks – NYTimes.com The New York Times questions financial institutions decision to block payments to WikiLeaks. Arguing banks are like utilities, and should be required to provide service to anyone. (tags: WikiLeaks bank Visa MasterCard PayPal financial NewYorkTimes)

World News Australia – Viral Friday: WikiLeaks saga animated As media outlets around the world are dominated from another release of sensitive diplomatic cables from whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, some organisations are taking the news a little less seriously than others.NextMediaAnimation … Continue reading →

Millennium Falcon secret blueprints Secret blueprints for the Millennium Falcon, a YT-1300 Transport from Corellian Engineering Corporation. (tags: MillenniumFalcon blueprints StarWars YT-1300 wookieleaks)

World News Australia – R18+ game decision delayed The federal and state governments are to draw up guidelines for a possible new R18+ computer game classification. (tags: gamers classicication R18+ MA15 delay BrendanO’Connor Attorney-General SBS AAP) The first truly honest … Continue reading →

Microsoft's big danger: Crippling volume license defections | Software licensing – InfoWorld Many Microsoft volume licensees would rather switch than fight, with the big showdown coming in the next two years (tags: Microsoft software volumelicence licence renew Office InfoWorld WoodyLeonhard) … Continue reading →

Conroy's Internet Filter: How IT Works Cartoon mashup of the NBN report and the Mandatory Internet filter (tags: StephenConroy NBN internet filter cartoon)

Fifty ISPs harbour half the world's zombies – Security – Technology – News – iTnews.com.au OECD researchers have found that piracy, not high speed broadband as is often assumed, explains the prevalence of botnet infections in a country. After analysing 190 … Continue reading →

Cyber Experts Have Proof That China Has Hijacked U.S.-Based Internet Traffic – Blog For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of … Continue reading →

Clouds over Newtown Festival | Leefe rates the world… As the afternoon at Newtown Festival progressed a bank of clouds moved over the park. Luckily no rain ensued, but they provided some shade from the hot sun. (tags: ping.fm clouds … Continue reading →