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Thursday, 11 March 2021 11:03
What's up, Josh? No Facebook deals for Nine, News and ABC
By Sam Varghese
A shade over two weeks since Treasurer Josh Frydenberg crowed that Australia had put in place "world-leading legislation" to bring Facebook and Google into line,…
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Open Sauce
Wednesday, 10 March 2021 08:29
Strange but true: everyone except Microsoft is blamed for Exchange Server attacks
By Sam Varghese
It should be somewhat curious to the average individual that all the coverage about the ongoing Microsoft Exchange Server attacks has focused on anything but…
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Open Sauce
Tuesday, 02 March 2021 11:36
Plenty of mirth as Recorded Future, NYT and ex-NSA man have a punt each way
By Sam Varghese
CIA-backed threat intelligence firm Recorded Future has issued a document in which it claims that a China-linked group named RedEcho is targeting the Indian power…
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Open Sauce
Friday, 26 February 2021 11:09
Facebook, Frydenberg both claim victory; for Google, silence is golden
By Sam Varghese
With the news media code now signed into law, it is time for all three entities involved in the drama that played out over the…
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Open Sauce
Saturday, 20 February 2021 07:32
Facebook: should Scomo take the issue to the UN Security Council?
By Sam Varghese
If the initial reaction to Facebook's sudden decision to cut Australians off from the site on Thursday was idiotic, it became even more ludicrous on…
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Open Sauce
Friday, 19 February 2021 07:07
Facebook: high time for Australians to wake up and smell the roses
By Sam Varghese
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has made his reaction known to the blocking of news content in the country by Facebook – in a post…
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Open Sauce
Thursday, 18 February 2021 11:18
Google wins quietly, Facebook uses the nuclear option
By Sam Varghese
Both Google and Facebook have demonstrated to the Australian Government in no uncertain terms who exactly is calling the shots in the stoush over the…
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Open Sauce
Monday, 15 February 2021 12:00
Bloomberg's new hardware hack tale is more of the 2018 brand
By Sam Varghese
The new version of the hardware hack story floated by Bloomberg illustrates one thing: the English language is a glorious tool for obfuscating things and…
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Open Sauce
Saturday, 13 February 2021 21:49
'Some people are saying': Google adopts Fox News-style tactics
By Sam Varghese
With the time for changes to be made to the news media code rapidly running out, Google, one of the digital platforms that will be…
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Open Sauce
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…
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