Technology News
Book review
A pioneer retraces the data trail
CONRAD WALTERS 8:39pm When The Guardian marked its centenary, its editor penned an essay that declared "comment is free, but facts are sacred".
Facebook outage sparks online panic
1:36pm Facebook went down briefly, offering the world a brief and horrific glimpse of what life would look like without the social networking giant.
Video
Dumb Ways to Die wins big at Cannes
1:09pm Dumb Ways to Die, a catchy public service announcement from Melbourne's Metro Trains, has won two awards at the Cannes Lions festival.
Hacking
Hacker tests limits of US cyber law
Dune Lawrence and David Voreacos 1:18pm Case becomes flashpoint in debate over where to draw the line on internet freedom.
Cloud
Adobe profit jumps as cloud subscriptions soar
Sruthi Ramakrishnan 12:50pm Adobe has reported a higher-than-expected adjusted quarterly profit as demand rose for Creative Cloud.
Security
Are your Apple iMessages secure?
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 10:56am Apple says its iMessages are beyond the grasp of the NSA and the FBI, but security experts aren't convinced.
Mobiles
Huawei launches world's slimmest smartphone
Robin Millard 10:04am Huawei has launched what it says is the world's thinnest smartphone, the Ascend P6.
Privacy
Yahoo! says it had 13,000 data requests
9:16am Yahoo! has received up to 13,000 requests for information from US law enforcement in the last six months, while Google is seeking approval to reveal the amount of data requests it receives.
Security
At least 50 terror plots foiled by spy program: NSA
Michael Mathes 8:43am Secret US surveillance has foiled more than 50 terror plots since 2001, says NSA chief.
Extortion
Opportunists choose Photoshop cut-and-paste over honeytraps
Dan Levin The photograph usually arrives as an email attachment or the old-fashioned way, in an envelope with no return address. It is rarely a pretty picture.
Space
Curtin searches out new lunar craters
Researchers at Curtin University say they have potentially identified hundreds of previously-unmapped craters on the moon.
Mobiles
Samsung to launch faster Galaxy S4
Miyoung Kim Samsung plans to sell a variation of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone that will transmit data at nearly twice the normal speed.
Privacy
Obama rejects comparisons to Cheney, Bush over internet snooping
President Barack Obama has sought to allay fears about secret US intelligence programs, rejecting comparisons with the policies of his predecessors George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
Australian doctor withdraws lawsuit against Google
BEN GRUBB An Australian breast surgeon who sued Google over an auto-complete search suggestion has withdrawn his case.
Hacking
Surveillance cameras can be hacked: expert
Jim Finkle Former NSA security expert says he has identified ways to remotely attack high-end surveillance cameras.
Games
'Next-gen' news from E3
Calum Wilson Austin The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, is officially over, and what a week it was.
Computers
China builds world's fastest supercomputer
China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US record holder.
Security
China says US should explain surveillance claims
Secrets were revealed by former security agency contractor Edward Snowden, whose whereabouts are unknown after he fled to Hong Kong.
Security
US government can't stop the truth: Ed Snowden
Kimberly Dozier NSA leaker Edward Snowden defended his disclosure of top-secret US spying programs in an online chat on Monday with The Guardian and attacked US officials for calling him a traitor.
Sci-tech
Scientists desperately seeking certainty
NICKY PHILLIPS Astrophysicist Brian Schmidt says he will be forced to abandon the research that won him a Nobel prize unless Australia secures access to the latest generation of telescopes.
Privacy
Police switch on to photo-ID databases
Craig Timberg and Ellen Nakashima The faces of more than 120 million Americans are in searchable photo databases that state officials assembled to prevent driver's-licence fraud but that increasingly are used by police to identify suspects, accomplices and even innocent bystanders in a wide range of criminal investigations.
Tech
Digital fundraising the way of the future
Cassidy Brown Young people are becoming more charitable online than offline, because they can share their fundraising efforts with peers.
Coming soon to Facebook's Graph Search: more data, more users
STEPHEN HUTCHEON Facebookâs director of engineer says its social search engine is very close to going mainstream.
Scams
Online dating dupes people out of millions
SARAH WHYTE Online scams cost Australians more than $93 million last year, with dating scams among the most lucrative.
Tech
Google takes lead in fight against child porn images
David Barrett Internet companies are developing a global database of child abuse images in an attempt to eradicate child pornography from the web.
Tablets
Horizon brings fresh idea to the table
David Pogue It isn't perfect, but the Lenovo machine has transformed the tablet into something new and interesting.
Sci-tech
Russian tycoon's plan to live forever
Russian multimillionaire Dmitry Itskov has gathered some of humanity's best brains - and a few robots - in New York City to discuss how humans can get their minds to outlive their bodies.
Government
Passports website suffers days of downtime
BEN GRUBB The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's passports.gov.au website has remained offline since Tuesday, reportedly due to a "critical hardware failure".
Tech
In court two years after Facebook hoax
Aliyah Stotyn A man has narrowly avoided jail after an online party prank backfired, with the episode serving as another cautionary tale about the risks of misusing social media.
Social
Facebook pranks may end in court
Aliyah Stotyn Victorian man who narrowly avoided jail after online prank backfired warns of risk.
