Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today notified its players that there was unauthorized access to some Battle.net account information

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/blizzard-entertainment-notifies-its-players-of-unauthorized-access-to-battlenet-account-information-2012-08-09

According to research, Optus shapes bit torrent traffic in Australia (22%)

http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/results/

Google will pay $US22.5 million to settle charges it bypassed the privacy settings of customers using Apple's Safari browser, the US Federal Trade Commission says

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-pays-record-225m-fine-to-settle-apple-safari-charges-20120810-23y49.html

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the first set of Software titles are heading to Steam, marking a major expansion to the platform most commonly known as a leading destination for PC and Mac games.

http://store.steampowered.com/news/8584/

Android and Apple smartphones account for 85 per cent of global market. With Google-backed Android accounted for a "commanding" 68.1 per cent of all smartphones shipped.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/android-and-apple-smartphones-account-for-85-per-cent-of-global-market/story-e6frgakx-1226446427818

GOOGLE'S internet search engine is getting more personal by highlighting information drawn from its users' Gmail (with 425 million users) accounts on its main results page

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/googles-main-search-to-include-gmail/story-e6frgakx-1226446433118

Google's failed ideas: timeline of axed projects

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/376264/googles-failed-ideas-timeline-of-axed-projects

In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold Google's Petr Mitrichev is the all-time champion of competitive programming, a little-known sport where tech giants scout for talent

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428610/in-the-olympics-of-algorithms-a-russian-keeps/?a=f

At DEFCON Kids, the list of events include things like learning how to pick a lock and participating in a lockpicking race, hacking a school network, and crime scene investigations using digital forensic

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/133742-at-def-con-kids-convention-computer-hacking-is-childs-play

Inside NASA’s Curiosity: It’s an Apple Airport Extreme… with wheels

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134041-inside-nasas-curiosity-its-an-apple-airport-extreme-with-wheels

PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 reaches v1.0, can play old games in 1080p

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/playstation-2-emulator-pcsx2-reaches-v1-0-plays-games-in-1080p-2012086/

THOUSANDS of years of indigenous knowledge could be made more accessible through smart technology such as 3D mapping and satellite photo-imaging

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/government/smart-technology-to-assist-cultural-archiving/story-fn4htb9o-1226444253032

We should use long passwords which incorporate (upper- and lower-case) letters, numbers and symbols. In theory, such a passwords would take a hacker over 100 years to discover if he or she were using an automated system capable of systematically guessing 100 passwords per second

http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/yes-cloud-dangerous-heres-how-stay-safe-927142?__utma=14933801.1152634403.1342404140.1344223968.1344306842.13&__utmb=14933801.2.10.1344306842&__utmc=14933801&__utmx=-&__utmz=14933801.1342404140.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=14933801.|8=Earned%20By=msnbc%7Ccover=1^12=Landing%20Content=Mixed=1^13=Landing%20Hostname=www.nbcnews.com=1^30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Earned%20to%20Mixed=1&__utmk=85055897

Now you can pay with a smartphone using a Samsung Galaxy S3 (also Westpac, MasterCard, and Optus sims), a new world-first trial starting in Australia today

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/technology/smartphones/pay-with-your-smartphone-using-a-samsung-galaxy-s3/story-fn5tich0-1226444172715

Social engineering used to hack and wipe a person's iCloud account

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/apple-cloud-burst-how-hacker-wiped-mats-life-20120806-23orv.html

Some Principles of modern software development (1000th post !!)

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/ive-inherited-200k-lines-of-spaghetti-codewhat-now/