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Mitnick cleared after customs scare

Since being released from prison eight years ago, Kevin Mitnick's brushes with the law have consisted of a few parking tickets and a citation for driving without a front license plate - that is, until he returned from a trip to Colombia two weeks ago. Read more »

Google reveals Android's sensitive inner compass

Google has shown off Android's inner compass which allows the screen's view to mirror the holder's orientation. Read more »

Australians want what's bad for them: Biometrics

Australians would prefer to use voice biometrics rather than PIN and password verification to prove their identity — but security experts warn biometrics exposes consumers to even greater risk. Read more »

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SAP keeps door open to large enterprises

SAP's aggressive push into the SME space isn't on the back of its traditional market shrinking, according to SAP ANZ managing director Alan Hyde. Read more »

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Mozilla CEO: Open source is no monster

Open source is nothing to be afraid of, according to Mozilla's chief executive officer. Read more »

Council social engineering test exposes flaws

Kingston City Council in Victoria recently conducted a social engineering experiment to see how its staff would react to a stranger trying to gain access to the server room; the exercise revealed, and helped fix, serious flaws in staff awareness. Read more »

Sun: Open source is about self-interest

Sun's chief open source officer has told a conference to forget volunteerism and ideals, and think more like Warren Buffett. Read more »

Browser bugs hit IE, Firefox

Two new security flaws have been discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, one of which could be replicated in Mozilla's Firefox, security experts have warned. Read more »

Schwartz swipes at the GPL

The GPL imposes a 'predatory obligation to disgorge IP back to the wealthiest nation in the world' on its users, according to Sun's president. Read more »

Mozilla burns to prove Firefox worthy

After eight months of rapid growth, Firefox approaches its 1.0 release with new challenges in converting IE users. Read more »

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IBM's service science

For years, IBM has been one of the world's leading research bodies when it comes to semiconductors, databases, electron microscopes and other "hard" sciences. Now, Big Blue is getting into social sciences. Read more »

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The festive season not so festive

This is still meant to be the festive season, isn't it? When they say you should show goodwill towards your fellow (hu)man, I don't think they meant redundancy payments. Read more »

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Tools for the Semantic Web

This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web. Read more »

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Bridging the gap between programmers and the vision

A successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »

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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder

On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.