This Week's Top Stories RACHEL BROWNE | The federal government has been urged to push ISPs to automatically block porn sites unless customers opt in, following a similar move in Britain. | 8:13am | Five charged in what prosecutors say is the largest hacking and data breach scheme in US history. | LUCY BATTERSBY | A London-based researcher said he was the "intruder" that forced Apple to shut down part of its global developer website. | BEN GRUBB 1:41pm | Security experts are warning Australians to be cautious of malicious software circulating via email around news of the royal baby. | Public Sector LUCY BATTERSBY 10:29am | Telstra has been accused of deliberate delaying the national broadband network rollout to see who wins the federal election. | LUCY BATTERSBY | Communications Minister Anthony Albanese rubbished speculation constructing the NBN could cost up to 40 per cent more than originally estimated. | Stuart Corner | NBN Co denies it will give preferential treatment to government agencies and health organisations wanting to use the network. | Matthew Hall | Australia is paying the price for not investing in infrastructure and not talking enough about the benefits of the NBN, according to a former Conroy staffer. | About 430 Queensland government IT jobs could go next financial year and the minister won't guarantee work will stay onshore. | Google is offering $US600,000 ($656,000) to set up free Wi-Fi hotspots in 31 public spaces in San Francisco, but officials are not sure about the gift. | Security 12:29pm | Cybersecurity researchers next week will demonstrate how hackers can potentially wreak havoc on critical US infrastructure, even causing explosions by altering the readings on wireless sensors used by the oil and gas industry. | BEN GRUBB | Moscow: Many smartphone app developers are not using encrypted protocols to secure the apps they create, leaving users vulnerable to being hacked when they connect to public Wi-Fi networks, researchers say. | A $US1 trillion estimate of the global cost of hacking cited by President Barack Obama and other top officials is a gross exaggeration, according to a new study commissioned by the company responsible for the earlier approximation. | | | Advertisement  Business IT Start-up Mahesh Sharma | In a move that will bring hope to struggling Australian entrepreneurs, one of Australia's star technology start-ups has attracted $US40 million. Big data Trevor Clarke | Energy retailer, AGL has adopted a new technology called in-memory computing to help it cope with the deluge of data coming from smart meters. OPINION The backlash by industry groups against long-overdue data breach reporting laws would be worrying if it wasn’t so predictable, says consumer advocate Teresa Corbin. Bandwitdh Stuart Corner | A new Australian company has revived internet bandwidth trading - the buying and selling of spare communications capacity. Jobs to go Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has fired 250 employees in a new product testing division at its Canadian headquarters, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. Advertisement  More Jobs to go Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has fired 250 employees in a new product testing division at its Canadian headquarters, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. Business Apple's latest quarterly report confirms the company's growth has stalled along with its pace of innovation. Acquisitions Google has taken another step towards a commercial version of Google Glass by acquiring a small stake in a unit of Taiwanese chipmaker that develops tiny displays. Components Early miners digging for gold, silver and copper had no idea that one day something else very valuable would be buried in the piles of dirt and rocks they tossed aside. |
