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New York Times hack linked to Australian internet company

A "malicious external attack" on the reseller of an Australian internet company has seen the New York Times website go down for the second time in a month.

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Scientists zero in on better radiation

New beamline cancer treatment at the Alfred Hospital, Prahran, that allows doctors to image and diagnose a deadly type of bone cancer. Radiotherapist Katherine Russell treats a patient [Kelly ph: 0411 171 247 who is not to be named]. FAIRFAX MEDIA . news . 20 AUGUST 2013 . photo by Justin McManus . story by Nicky Phillips

NICKY PHILLIPS | Australian scientists are developing an experimental radiation therapy to zero in on cancer cells.

Facebook says Australian government sought user data

LUCY BATTERSBY 12:12pm | Facebook received 546 requests for information from Australian government agencies in the first half of this year.

Facebook adds shared photo albums - what took so long?

Breaking up: can you still be friends on Facebook?

Adam Turner 9:09am | Has Mark Zuckerberg's determination to understand exactly who you are held Facebook back from letting families and friends share photo albums?

Businesses split over NBN benefits

Surprised: Marcus Moufarrige assumed all companies would expect better businesses conditions from the NBN. File

LUCY BATTERSBY 8:56am | Victorian and Tasmanian business owners are the most optimistic about the benefits of the national broadband network, while South Australian small businesses owners are the least optimistic in the country.

Victoria wants a tech-led future

Victoria Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips and with former Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy at the opening of the NBN Co's national operations facility in Melbourne in November 2011.

LIA TIMSON 8:50am | Victoria will overtake NSW as Australia's tech capital if its Minister for Technology, Gordon Rich-Phillips has anything to do with it.

ATO warns of new phishing scam

Kim Stephens 12:01am | The Australian Tax Office has warned people to be wary of a new email scam claiming a tax refund has failed to process.

Light on black holes

University of Sydney researcher Dr Sean Farrell was part of an international team of astronomers which observed a star that had strayed too close to a super massive black hole being literally torn apart. It's an incredibly rare event that occurs once every ten thousand years per galaxy. BRIDIE SMITH STORY AGE NEWS 8/8/2011

PETER SPINKS 9:00am | An out-of-the-ordinary black hole could give vital clues to how galaxies form and evolve.

Typhoid research earns top science award

BRIDIE SMITH | When pulling together the tools needed to study how bacterial disease spreads, a supercomputer seems an unlikely candidate.

UN to seek answers to spying claims

The United Nations will approach the US government over a report by a German magazine that US intelligence spied on video conferences by top UN officials, a spokesman says.

Japan aborts Epsilon rocket launch seconds before lift-off

12:06am | Japan suspended the launch of its next-generation solid-fuel rocket just seconds before lift-off after engineers discovered a technical glitch, the space agency says.

Aussie go-getter gobbles up another site

99Designs Brazil country manager Dan Strougo (left) with CEO and Patrick Llewellyn.

Sylvia Pennington 8:54am | Australian crowdsourcing firm 99Designs has made another acquisition, this time to tackle the huge Brazilian market.

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