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• Vale bets big on technology in bid to slash mining costs - The Australian Financial Review

  21-10-2016 22:56 via afr.com
  
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  Vale bets big on technology in bid to slash mining costs
  The Australian Financial Review
  The challenge is that Vale's mines are more than 13,000km farther from China than Rio and BHP. So shipments are more expensive at a time when ore prices have been hammered. iron ore coal port (NO CAPTION INFORMATION PROVIDED) Rob Homer.and more »
  
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• Windows: When no growth is an improvement

  21-10-2016 21:51
  
  Microsoft said revenue in the September quarter for the More Personal Computing group was down 2%, the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year declines.
  
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• New 3-D technology raises hopes for the coldest of cold cases - Phys.Org

  21-10-2016 21:47 via phys.org
  
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  New 3-D technology raises hopes for the coldest of cold cases
  Phys.Org
  Dr. Erin Kimmerle, associate professor n the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida, gestures as she speaks to the members of the Art of Forensics conference Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, in Tampa, Fla. Kimmerle, and several …more.and more »
  
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• iPads and Apple TV aimed at transforming patient care

  21-10-2016 21:29
  
  Apple TVs and iPads give patients more control at Jacobs Medical Center. Behind the scenes, UCSD Health Sciences relies on Jamf technology to manage and secure its interactive patient care system.
  
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• Extensive DDoS attack against Dyn restarts, could indicate a new use of old criminal tech

  21-10-2016 21:26
  
  Attacks against DNS service provider Dyn resumed today after a two and a half hour lull, and could indicate a new application of an old criminal technology, experts say.
  
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• Major cyber attack disrupts internet service across Europe and US - The Guardian

  21-10-2016 19:39 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian
  Major cyber attack disrupts internet service across Europe and US
  The Guardian
  Platforms affected by the attack included Twitter, Netflix, Reddit and Spotify. Photograph: Ross M. Horowitz/Getty Images. Sam Thielman in New York and Chris Johnston in London. Friday 21 October 2016 12.06 EDT Last modified on Friday 21 October 2016 ...
  Major cyberattack knocks Twitter, Paypal, Spotify offline FridayCBC.ca
  Wikileaks supporters 'behind massive cyber attack on US'New Zealand Herald
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• Bankers plan to give Corda blockchain code to Hyperledger project

  21-10-2016 18:07
  
  Corda, a distributed ledger platform developed by a finance industry consortium, will go open source next month when its developers donate the code to the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project.
  
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• Digital health technology poised to help an aging population - TechTarget

  21-10-2016 17:46 via searchhealthit.techtarget.com
  
  Digital health technology poised to help an aging population
  TechTarget
  Startups and established mHealth and health IT vendors showcase care coordination and telehealth apps, while speakers talk about tech tools for the elderly and mentally ill. This Article Covers. Mobile. RELATED TOPICS. Desktop/laptop · Servers ...and more »
  
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• Easy-to-exploit rooting flaw puts Linux computers at risk

  21-10-2016 17:29
  
  The maintainers of Linux distributions are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability that's already being exploited in the wild and poses a serious risk to Linux based servers, desktops and other devices.
  
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• DNS provider Dyn gets DDoSed, takes out Twitter, GitHub and plenty others

  21-10-2016 15:59
  
  Some of the biggest names on the internet – including Twitter, GitHub, Etsy, Spotify, the New York Times and the Boston Globe, among many others – were temporarily knocked offline by a DDoS attack that targeted DNS provider Dyn early Friday morning.
  
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• Tesla Motors to charge $10000 for self-driving technology - The Australian

  21-10-2016 15:01 via theaustralian.com.au
  
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  Tesla Motors to charge $10000 for self-driving technology
  The Australian
  Tesla Motors plans to charge buyers of its newest cars $US8000 ($10,486) to activate autonomous-driving technology, hinting those who do would be able to offset the cost through a ride-hailing network similar to Uber Technologie and Lyft. The $US8000 ...
  All Tesla Cars Will Now Come With Self-Driving TechnologyLifehacker Australia
  Elon Musk challenges regulators to catch up to Tesla's driverless car tec
  
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• Windows GDI flaw leads to PowerShell attacks

  21-10-2016 12:00
  
  APT group FruityArmor exploited Windows GDI memory handling to break out of browser sandboxes and launch PowerShell in targeted attacks
  
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• MIT ports Tesseract OCR to JavaScript

  21-10-2016 12:00
  
  Port from developers at MIT supports dozens of languages and makes it easier and cheaper to build image-processing applications
  
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• Intel asserts its trademark rights against John McAfee

  21-10-2016 08:56
  
  Intel does not object to John McAfee using his personal name in connection with his business, but it objects to the use by the entrepreneur and security expert of the McAfee trade name and trademark in a way that could confuse or deceive consumers or dilute the brand.
  
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• Privacy groups target kids advertising disguised as YouTube content

  21-10-2016 06:01
  
  Marketing companies are targeting children worldwide on YouTube with advertising disguised as other content, an "unfair and deceptive" business practice, three privacy groups said in a complaint to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
  
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• Audit reveals security shortcomings for key SA tax system

  21-10-2016 02:41
  
  An audit of a key tax revenue management system used by South Australia’s Department of Treasury and Finance has uncovered a range of serious problems, with long-term fixes unable to be put in place until an upgrade project is completed in December.
  
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• Democracy's new challenge: runaway technology and walk-away government - InDaily

  21-10-2016 01:15 via indaily.com.au
  
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  Democracy's new challenge: runaway technology and walk-away government
  InDaily
  The final lecture of the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, The Investigator, will see Jeffrey Bleich take to the stage to contemplate the unprecedented rate at which technology is advancing and the opportunities and challenges that this presents.
  
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