Security agencies will gain greater access to encrypted messages after a Labor backdown allowed the Federal Government to pass its legislation on Parliament's final sitting day.

by James Wallace Harris, Tuesday, November 20, 2018 When the scientific discipline of artificial intelligence emerged in the 1950’s academics began to seriously believe that someday a compute…

From a trash-filled Earth to the futuristic Axiom and back again, WALL·E is a finely crafted balance between consumerist dystopia and sixties space-race optimism. Please join me, then, for a detail…

This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Respect: Architect Zaha Hadid, Queen of the Curve." In March 2016, when...

Incriminating internal e-mails, an ugly P.R. campaign, explosive exposés, denials, and denunciations snowballed into more trouble for the social network.

Eviation’s Alice is an all-electric, nine-person aircraft that may help replace fossil fuel-burning commuter planes.

The nongovernmental National Security Archive’s Cyber Vault today supplemented one of its more popular resources – the National Security Agency’s (NSA) periodical Cryptolog – with newly released materials from the agency’s long-running in-house publication. …

Breakit unravels the story about a ring too good to be true, a magical blanket backed by thousands of people around the world, and a university dorm room in the suburbs of Stockholm.

by Frederic Filloux

It still plans to use the Chinese company's phone mast antennas and certain other products.

Officials pledge support for European-led ‘Plan S’ to tear down journal paywalls — but it’s unclear whether China will adopt its policies.

To say that the RTL-SDR project was revolutionary might be something of an understatement. Taking a cheap little USB gadget and using it as a Software Defined Radio (SDR) to explore the radio spect…

One of the ways #AABill gets access to systems is by commandeering employees of companies to write backdoors. But they’re not even allowed to tell their employer, or face jail time.

I went through the mechanics of this, and realised how out of touch Canberra…

A Well-Known URL for Changing Passwords. Contribute to WICG/change-password-url development by creating an account on GitHub.

Social media platform Tumblr has announced a ban on so-called “adult content,” a move made, it seems, in reaction to Tumblr’s app being removed from the Apple app store. But while making the app more

In interview, Mark S Luckie describes irony of letter’s removal for violating ‘community standards’ before it was reinstated

An algorithm that remembers previous explorations in Montezuma’s Revenge and Pitfall! could make computers and robots better at learning how to succeed in the real world.

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