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Web fights back against poor security

New Tumblr run by a software engineer names and shames the popular sites putting your data at risk.

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Hanx Writer created by Tom Hanks turns your iPad into a typewriter

Actor and creator of Hanx Writer, Tom Hanks.

Tim Biggs | An app created by Tom Hanks that mimics the feel of writing with an old typewriter has gone to the top of the charts.

Lorem Ipsum: of good and evil, Google and China

Lorem Ipsum: placeholder text of the web.

Brian Krebs | Translating common internet placeholder text in Google Translate resulted, until recently, in some startlingly geopolitical phrases.

Dodo and ClubTelco suffer 'major technical issue' causing outage

Dodo customers were offline for most of Monday.

BEN GRUBB | Customers of budget internet service providers Dodo and ClubTelco across Australia were left without a stable internet connection for at least 12 hours.

Australian investors sought for business-as-usual Israeli start-ups

Jon Medved of OurCrowd in Australia last week.

LIA TIMSON 10:07am | A 30-year veteran of Israel’s venture capital sector wants rich Australians to spare some of their cash on Israeli start-ups.

GST 'looms' over crowdfunding for start-ups

Ric Richardson's Uniloc won a court case against Microsoft.

Andrew Colley 9:29am | Australia's GST laws could limit the potential for technology start-ups to use crowdfunding to raise capital.

An open data vision

MARC MONCRIEF 12:15am | Need something to tell you how many bikes might be available at the nearest bike share station?

iPhone 6 may include cable with reversible USB plug

The Lightning cable for the rumored iPhone 6 may come with reversible ends.

Samantha Murphy Kelly 12:26pm | Anyone who's ever plugged a USB cable into a computer port knows the struggle of forcing it in the wrong way up.

iPad loses top spot as tablet market slows

Slowing down: The current iPad Mini and iPad Air.

1:59pm | Australian tablet sales have slowed for the first time in three years and the iPad has lost coveted top spot as owners wait for a reason to upgrade.

The app that stops teenagers ignoring their parents

phone

Rosa Prince 9:00am | A mother who became frustrated by her teenager's failure to answer her callscreated an app that disables his phone until he does.

Health Check: Sitting versus standing

Sitting and standing.

Bethany Howard and Neville Owen 6:40pm | It seems the world is finally coming to terms with the fact that humans evolved to stand, not to sit.

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