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08 November, 2013
Australian Bitcoin bank hacked: $1m+ stolen. The alleged hacking incident happened on October 26, with the service’s operator, known only as ‘‘Tradefortress’’, saying hackers have stolen all 4100 Bitcoins held by the wallet service, or $1.3 million at time of writing. It wasn’t until this week that he decided to notify customers.
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Cybersafety,
ICT Capability,
Sustainability
AUSTRALIA'S video game industry body has slammed a decision to review the MA15+ rating given to 12 games in Australia, which could cost more than $300,000 and cause nationwide recalls. The games, all of which have been classified in Australia this year, include Gears of War: Judgment, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist, The Walking Dead, and Borderlands 2: Add-on Content Pack.
A VIRTUAL high school will be established for students living in rural areas in NSW to ensure they are offered the same wide range of subjects up to year 12 that are available to city students. The virtual school will operate alongside bricks and mortar schools as an adjunct to existing classrooms rather than replacing regular schooling, and will also offer selective classes for bright kids.
06 November, 2013
04 November, 2013
Android 4.4 KitKat: The most significant Android update in years (better cross device support). Beginning with this release, Android will have streamlined support for devices with as little as 512MB of RAM. Google is implementing developer features like Dalvik JIT code cache tuning, kernel samepage merging, and swap to zRAM to make apps more responsive in a resource-constrained environment. Android itself will also aggressively protect memory to keep things running smoothly. This means more inexpensive phones could launch with fully updated software and stay up to date longer.
Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results. Psychologist K. Anders Ericsson gained fame for his research showing that true expertise requires about 10,000 hours of practice, a notion popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his book "Outliers." But an often-overlooked finding from the same study is equally important: True expertise requires teachers who give "constructive, even painful, feedback," as Dr. Ericsson put it in a 2007 Harvard Business Review article. He assessed research on top performers in fields ranging from violin performance to surgery to computer programming to chess. And he found that all of them "deliberately picked unsentimental coaches who would challenge them and drive them to higher levels of performance."
SCREEN Australia will fund to the tune of $200,000 new online content for YouTube in Google's first move into local content. The announcement today of the Skip Ahead program to support local online content creators comes days after two television network bosses accused Google of gaming the tax system. The co-funding of the $400,000 You-Tube program by the federal agency is sure to spark controversy because Google pays minimal tax in Australia and is not bound by any of the media regulation or local content requirements covering broadcast and print media companies.
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