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Facebook ignored my bug until I used it to hack Mark Zuckerberg's page

If you're a hacker and you find a bug on Facebook, you can submit it through the company's bug bounty program and get a reward, unless Facebook ignores you.

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Planet hunter Kepler gives up the ghost

An artist's impression of the NASA Kepler spacecraft.
NASA has confirmed that its celebrated planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, which broke down in May when a reaction wheel that controls its orientation failed, will never get well enough to hunt for planets around other stars again.

Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch to launch next month, sources say

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Jungah Lee | Samsung will introduce a smart watch named the Galaxy Gear next month that can make phone calls, surf the web and handle emails, sources say.

Turnbull hints at taxing tech giants more

Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has hinted at changing corporate tax law.
BEN GRUBB 3:28pm | Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has hinted at changing tax law so that multinational corporations like Google and Apple pay more tax in Australia than they do currently.

VIDinc: YouTubers log off briefly to delight fans

Fans at the Vidinc independent you tube festival in Darling Harbour, Sydney. 18th August 2013 Photo: Janie Barrett
Peter Vincent | Video killed the radio star, the '80s song goes but the star-power of today's most popular YouTube performers translated easily to real-life appearances in Sydney on Sunday.

Virus targets social networks in new fraud twist

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Jim Finkle 10:07am | In the world of cyber fraud, a fake fan on Instagram can be worth five times more than a stolen credit card number.

IBM buys Trusteer to add cloud security

IBM is paying $US1 billion for Israeli security firm Trusteer.
9:22am | IBM, the world's biggest technology services company, is buying Israeli security firm Trusteer, in an effort to strengthen its security offerings.

Breaking Bad illegal downloads topped by Aussies

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Australians were the leading illegal downloaders of the latest episode of Breaking Bad.

Online porn consumers exposed to cyber crims

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Cameron Houston | Hundreds of Australians accessing pornography online have been caught - some quite literally - with their pants down by cyber criminals who fraudulently claim to be members of the Australian Federal Police.

The 'selfie' is just the tip of online narcissism's iceberg

Rudd: 290613: Sun Herald: News: 29th of June 2013. Pic shows new/old PM Kevin Rudd on the election trail in the town of Springwood in the lower Blue mountains, ALP candidate for Macquarie Susan Templeman. The newly elected head of Australian Labor was generally well received by elated by the local constituency.. Photo by James Alcock.2MB28394.jpg
CATHERINE ARMITAGE | The selfie so proliferates that Kevin Rudd would stay Prime Minister if it counted more than votes.

Let's curb our 3D-printer enthusiasm

A 3D printer on display at the Gadget Show Live 2013 at the NEC, Birmingham, UK, on April 02, 2013. Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Wire/ABACAPRESS. COM
Vivek Wadhwa | Expectations are so high for digital fabrication technology that disappointment is inevitable.

Google knows what you're doing tomorrow

FILE - This June 27, 2012 file photo shows an Android display at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Google is expected to use its annual software developers? conference to showcase the latest mobile devices running on its Android software, while also unveiling other features in its evolving product line-up. The gathering is scheduled to begin Wednesday morning, May 15, 2013, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
Will Oremus | Google has taken the next step in its transformation from a web-search engine to the Star Trek computer.

Pebble: smart concept, not-so-smart watch

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Farhad Manjoo | Apple and Samsung smart watches are coming. Hopefully they'll be better than Pebble.

Home media servers: Plex v XBMC

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Adam Turner | A home media server gathers your digital library and shares it with all your gadgets.

Top alternative email apps

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Jenneth Orantia reviews the best alternative apps to your built-in email client.

Sacking case highlights pitfalls of social media

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CLAY LUCAS | Interior designer who used LinkedIn to connect with potential customers fired at his day job.

Antisocial networking

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Isaac Johanson | Obsessive attitudes towards social media websites are changing.
 

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