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Hacking group claims to have infiltrated Australian websites

An image Anonymous Australia uses in a YouTube video explaining why it did the AAPT hack.

JAMES ROBERTSON 10:25am | An Indonesian hacking group claims to have infiltrated hundreds of Australian websites in apparent revenge over reports that Australia is intercepting Indonesian communications.

Will the iPad Air cut into iPad mini sales?

Adam Turner 2:05pm | With the new iPad so incredibly thin and light, is there less reason to sacrifice that extra screen real estate?

Country Fire Authority apologises for Fire Ready app bungle

RICHARD WILLINGHAM 12:34pm | Victoria's troubled fire alert system is already causing headaches before the bushfire season has even started, with nearly half a million people incorrectly sent bushfire danger alerts.

Apple Maps v Google Maps

FAIRFAX, CA - DECEMBER 13: The Google Maps app is seen on an Apple iPhone 4S on December 13, 2012 in Fairfax, California. Three months after Apple removed the popular Google Maps from its operating system to replace it with its own mapping software, a Google Maps app has been added to the iTunes store. Apple Maps were widely panned in tech reviews and among customers, the fallout resulting in the dismissal of the top executive in charge of Apple's mobile operating system. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP

ADAM TURNER | Apple Maps got off to a shaky start, but the iOS7 update might help drive people across from Google Maps.

Government seeks NBN-Telstra contract advisors

Switching contracts: The Department of Communications is seeking advisors to help it renegotiate the Telstra deal for the NBN.

LUCY BATTERSBY 12:32pm | The federal government is looking for new advisors to help renegotiate the $11 billion deal between NBN Co and Telstra, according to a tender released on Friday afternoon.

Funeral webcasts bring families home

Lara O'toole | The death of a loved one can be traumatic enough without the added sadness of being unable to attend the funeral.

'Anonymous' collective hackers intensify cyber attacks across South-East Asia

LINDSAY MURDOCH 10:35am | Hackers claiming to be from the notorious Anonymous collective have stepped up attacks across South-East Asia, infiltrating websites in Singapore and the Philippines.

Solar eclipse darkens sky over Africa

7:14am | Despite rain and overcast skies residents of southern Gabon got a glimpse of a total eclipse of the sun, a rare phenomenon also visible in eastern Africa.

Chip designers see dollar signs in Bitcoin miners

Noel Randewich 10:50am | Tucked away in an air conditioned data centre in Silicon Valley is a hodgepodge of black boxes, circuit boards and cooling fans owned by 27-year-old Aaron Jackson-Wilde, a modern-day prospector looking for Bitcoins.

Privacy concerns as UK supermarket 'spies' on customers

Steve Hawkes 11:03am | British supermarket chain Tesco is installing hundreds of hi-tech screens that scan the faces of shoppers as they queue at tills to detect their age and sex for advertisers.

Everyone's dirty little secrets exposed in high-tech neighbourhood watch

Damien Murphy | Somewhere between the cyber espionage that outed the US as Big Brother Inc and the phone-hacking scandal that sank Rupert Murdoch's British form of journalism, the real news of the world may be Spies 'R' Us.

Do you have cyber secrets?

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DOM KNIGHT | The five most embarrassing emails on Dom Knight's server.

Electrical jump-starter for the brain: low-level current offers promise, perils

Kate Murphy | What if you could establish the neural pathways that lead to virtuosity more quickly? That is the promise of transcranial direct current stimulation.

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Drew Turney | After millions of years of remembering what matters, is the way memory works changing?

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