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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Open Sauce
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Open Sauce
Thursday, 10 December 2020 11:06
FireEye break-in: Mandia has forgotten that charity begins at home
By Sam Varghese
Whenever FireEye, the cyber security firm that just had its crown jewels compromised, publishes a report on some activity by malicious attackers, it always issues…
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Open Sauce
