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Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:26
Microsoft adept at deflecting questions about culpability in malware pandemic
By Sam Varghese
Microsoft's Windows operating system is the target of a massive majority of the malicious software that abounds these days. And it has adopted the same…
Published in
Open Sauce
Thursday, 08 October 2020 11:25
Telstra's 5G speed self-test opens itself up to ridicule
By Sam Varghese
Telstra is opening itself up to ridicule by touting figures collected by its own staff to "prove" that its 5G service is faster than a…
Published in
Open Sauce
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Wednesday, 07 October 2020 18:40
Voting machines pose more problems in US elections than outside actors
By Sam Varghese
The US Department of Homeland Security issued a warning on Tuesday that Russia may try to "sow discord, distract, shape public sentiment, and undermine trust…
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Open Sauce
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Monday, 05 October 2020 11:58
Microsoft puts lipstick on a pig to avoid scrutiny over security
By Sam Varghese
In what appears to be a bid to try and pretend that it is making no big contribution to the abysmal security environment in the…
Published in
Open Sauce
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Monday, 05 October 2020 08:23
Linux lovers are dreaming when they say Windows will lose desktop war
By Sam Varghese
Would any company that earns US$20 billion (A$27.9 billion) from a product line think of giving it up? That fact alone, culled from Microsoft's 2019…
Published in
Open Sauce
Sunday, 04 October 2020 07:11
RMIT's Gregory is spot on: the NBN Co corporate plan is another lemon
By Sam Varghese
The NBN Co's new corporate plan has not attracted much scrutiny, probably due to the fact that the Morrison Government has now announced it will…
Published in
Open Sauce
Saturday, 03 October 2020 04:56
Australia fiddles while its citizen Julian Assange burns
By Sam Varghese
What is the value of an Australian passport? I'm sure that this question would have passed through the mind of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, one…
Published in
Open Sauce
Friday, 02 October 2020 10:43
Come to heel, Australia, says Pichai, holding out a carrot
By Sam Varghese
Google has held out a nice, juicy carrot overnight, hoping that Australia will bite and agree to the terms that it wants for the media…
Published in
Open Sauce
Friday, 02 October 2020 09:52
MyRepublic chief keeps spirits up as he leaves the building
By Sam Varghese
Nicholas Demos has left the building. After five years managing the affairs of MyRepublic in Australia and New Zealand, he has taken his leave, but…
Published in
Open Sauce
Wednesday, 30 September 2020 09:19
Russians using ransomware to attack US elections, claims NYT
By Sam Varghese
With the US presidential elections just 35 days away, mentions of Russia in the American mainstream media have, expectedly, reached a feverish pitch, with every…
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[…]