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Friday, 05 February 2021 11:37
News media code: in the end, Google gets exactly what it wanted
By Sam Varghese
Google has very cleverly got its way as far as the news media code is concerned, leading Australian politicians on and ensnaring them in a…
Published in
Open Sauce
Friday, 29 January 2021 11:22
Google contradicts its own claims by trying to cut deals on the sly
By Sam Varghese
Search behemoth Google, which is trying to muscle the Australian Government into accepting a news media code devised by itself, has contradicted its own threat…
Published in
Open Sauce
Saturday, 23 January 2021 07:43
Memo to Google and Facebook: please pack your bags and go
By Sam Varghese
It will be interesting to see who blinks first in the tussle between the digital platforms and the Australian Government: Google and Facebook or Prime…
Published in
Open Sauce
Tuesday, 12 January 2021 10:55
Russia, Reuters and postcards make for a very silly red scare
By Sam Varghese
The kind of silly claims made by Western news media when it comes to cyber security attacks can be gauged from the latest "exclusive" put…
Published in
Open Sauce
Wednesday, 23 December 2020 11:07
NBN 'fully built' though 35,000 premises still unconnected. Don't they count?
By Sam Varghese
Thirty-five thousand Australian premises are yet to be connected to the national broadband network, but Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has declared that the network is…
Published in
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Wednesday, 23 December 2020 09:11
Bid to explain Red Hat's killing of CentOS makes users angrier
By Sam Varghese
An attempt by long-time Red Hat employee Karsten Wade to mollify those who are upset over the killing of CentOS appears to have only made…
Published in
Open Sauce
The next move in the battle over the news media code lies with the government, after Google essentially said on Friday that nothing in the…
Published in
Open Sauce
Wednesday, 16 December 2020 08:43
FireEye and Microsoft silent on source of attacks, others pile on
By Sam Varghese
Neither American cyber security firm FireEye nor software giant Microsoft, the two companies which carried out an investigation into supply chain attacks on many companies…
Published in
Open Sauce
Monday, 14 December 2020 11:50
Fedora users, move to Debian or openSUSE before Red Hat shafts you
By Sam Varghese
Users of the Fedora Linux community distribution would do well to switch over to an alternative like Debian GNU/Linux or openSUSE before Red Hat leaves…
Published in
Open Sauce
Friday, 11 December 2020 11:28
After CentOS, the next one to bite the dust will be Fedora
By Sam Varghese
When Oracle Corporation, a company that is not exactly known for being friendly to free software and open source, appears to be more friendly to…
Published in
Open Sauce
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Comments
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Re: iTWire - Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky: iPhone XR catches fire on plane
So the battery is not part of the phone?
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Re: iTWire - Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky: iPhone XR catches fire on plane
The iPhone didn’t “catch” fire. It was accidentally snapped in two and the lithium battery contents mixed and caught fire.
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Re: iTWire - Once again, Huawei is on trial, but as usual there is no evidence
I recently acquired a 5G modem from Telstra. It’s made by ZTE - a Chinese partly state-owned technology company. Go[…]
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Re: iTWire - Once again, Huawei is on trial, but as usual there is no evidence
Sock it to 'em, Sam!
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Re: iTWire - Permanently banned from Call of Duty for no reason & dealing with Activision support
Warthunder is the most despicable game for banning. they introduced "easy anticheat" to all game modes EXCEPT the most popular[…]