 | | |  | If tablets are really replacing computers, why doesn't the iPad have a keyboard? | | Top stories 3:29pm | A journalist who challenged a team of hackers to find out as much information about him as possible has described their findings as "chilling" after they were able to access all of his bank accounts and crack all of his passwords. | ADAM TURNER | Someone, somewhere is always watching your activity online. | LUCY BATTERSBY | Complaints about telephone companies have reached a five-year low according to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman's latest annual report. | Ben Grubb | Telstra will soon trial a number of technologies to help reduce traffic jams on its mobile network and speed up software updates on smartphones. | JAMES W MANNING | Apple has confirmed it is not competing on price but on reputation with consumers facing higher prices for many of its new devices, making them more expensive than many Android and Windows alternatives. | Adam Turner | Apple is pushing users further towards cloud computing with free software. | MACMAN | Apple's relatively low-expectation launch event in San Francisco on Tuesday still managed to produce improvements to its hardware and software line up. | Apple has unveiled a thinner, lighter iPad Air and an updated iPad mini with a high-definition screen as it battles to stay ahead in the increasingly crowded tablet market. | 8:52am | Apple has reported a quarterly profit of $7.8 billion on the back of soaring iPhone sales, while iPad sales remained flat. | Iain Gillespie | The glare of news-media scrutiny shines on the murky, mysterious world of the darknet. | Adam Turner | Australians are spoiled for choice when it comes to subscription music services but JB Hi-Fi NOW and Spotify are the pick of the bunch, according to Choice. | Adam Turner | Is it worth paying for extra pixels when you can't put them to good use? | Behind the scenes of its many successes, Wikipedia has been roiled with controversy. | The Daily Beast's Brian Ries this week wrote an interesting piece about gun sales on Instagram. By searching for various gun-related hashtags, he found examples ranging from an antique Colt to a “custom MK12-inspired AR-15". It turns out that advertising guns for sale on the photo-sharing site is mostly legal (in the US at least), and Instagram has no special policy against it. | Even though Apple's new Mavericks OS X - the latest version of its operating system for Macbook laptops and Mac desktop computes - is seen as an evolutionary upgrade, there are a few cool new features you'll want to try. | Nokia is expanding its line-up of Windows phones and introducing its first tablet computer. | Chemical weapons, cyber attacks, and DNA analysis: the war between conservationists and poachers has never been more high tech. | Google has confirmed it is dabbling with putting large banner ads atop search results for brand names in a move seen by some as breaking an old promise. | Taiwan fines Samsung after the South Korean tech giant was found to have paid bloggers to attack Taiwanese rival HTC. | New Zealand Post will deliver letters only three days a week amid a decline in "snail mail" volumes blamed on emails and texts. | Facebook has removed a video of a woman being beheaded and said it would tighten restrictions on gory videos permitted on the site. | Apple will start selling ultra high definition televisions next year, according to one analyst. | There's nothing new about public prurience, but a civilised society must keep it in check. | ADAM TURNER | Personal video recorders make it easier to catch your favourite shows each week, but they can go about it in different ways. | A White House security official has been fired after it was discovered he was behind an anonymous Twitter account that criticised the Obama administration. | CHRISTOPHER KNAUS | Expert warns morals of young Australians are being warped in the online world, giving rise to crimes similar to the ADFA Skype case. | Two-thirds of executives in the Swiss watchmaking industry say smart watches pose no threat. | Tim Burke is known among sports journalists for his ability to capture the moment. How he does it is a matter of wonder. | BLEEDING EDGE | We finally decided to stop supporting Google. Our disaffection has been brewing for a while. | IMAGING | There are times on sunny days when the LCD is useless, and customers should be warned. | IMAGING | Use it in full auto mode if you must, but it has a lot more to offer the true enthusiast. | SIGHT AND SOUND | Since it launched here, Sonos has been the standout success of the hi-fi market. | ADAM TURNER | Microsoft has curbed some of its more radical changes with the free Windows 8.1 update. | Cynthia Karena | Cynthia Karena looks at the Pocketbook, OLYMPUS Dictation and Planets apps. | James Dominguez 1:53pm | GTA V made up 50% of US software sales in September, and the same figures showed the Wii U tripled its August sales. | James Dominguez | Eric Holmes, creative director on Batman: Arkham Origins and life-long Batman fan, talks about how this game is the story he always wanted to tell. | Jason Hill | Beyond: Two Souls sees ambitious auteur David Cage having another crack at blurring the boundaries of film and game. | James Dominguez | In light of Grand Theft Auto's three playable characters, the fact that none of them is a woman seems like a mistake. | | | Advertisement  Advertisement  Compare & Save | Find the best mobile phone plan | | |  | | | | | Security Reminder: Fairfax Media digital never requests personal or credit card information via email. 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