This Week's Top Stories Jane Wardell | In a country synonymous with mining tycoons, the geeks are quietly inheriting the earth. | JEWEL TOPSFIELD 4:28pm | The Victorian government's failed $180 million schools IT experiment will end on December 31. | Farhad Manjoo | What we've learned over the last few days about Edward Snowden should be extremely worrying. | Matthew Hall | Want to know more about technology? Inspire your kids in tech and science? Matthew Hall finds a little-known route. | Public Sector TOM PULLAR-STRECKER | The New Zealand Defence Force wants to spend $NZ600 million creating a cyber army. | Stuart Corner | Telstra's competitors, and NBN Co, fear Telstra will gain an unfair head start in signing up households. | Benjamin Preiss | Victorian government blames $35m TAFE computer system blow-out for lengthy delay in reporting enrolment figures. | British spies are running an online eavesdropping operation so vast that internal documents say it even outstrips the US program. | Julie Power | This internet of cows has captured the imagination of farmers and others. | Surveillance 1:37pm | Close confidant of Julian Assange provided the FBI with chat logs, videos and other data. | 1:27pm | Scheme thrown into public spotlight by Edward Snowden disrupted dozens of terrorist schemes, director reveals. | Russian President revealed that the US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden was still in a Moscow airport transit zone. | Yahoo! has received up to 13,000 requests for information from US law enforcement agencies in the last six months. | | | Advertisement  Business IT Watch this Space PayPal wants to explore space - or at least begin to figure out how payments and commerce will work beyond Earth's realm. Expertise A growing number of information technology workers in Australia are now hunting for work in NZ, fuelled by IBM's decision to lay off 1500 staff. FRONTING SHAREHOLDERS Douglas MacMillan | Yahoo CEO, in her first annual meeting with shareholders, said that the biggest US web portal is making headway. Privacy KEVIN J. O'BRIEN | In a victory for Google, the EU's highest court receives a recommendation on the "right to be forgotten" issue. Medical Tech NICK BILTON | Scientists are already preparing the next, even more intrusive wave of computing. Advertisement  More Security The top US military officer on Thursday dismissed comparisons of Chinese and American snooping in cyber space. Regulation US regulators warn leading internet firms to better identify paid ads in search results. Cloud Jim Finkle | Oracle, the technology giant losing market share to younger firms that sell software via the Web, has signed a long-term partnership. Official South and North Korean websites have suffered co-ordinated attacks by unknown hackers on the anniversary of the Korean War. The Cloud Stuart Corner | A mythical beast or just a good old server farm? Stuart Corner seeks the definition of private cloud. |
