The Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents because government lawyers said they could not do so without also prosecuting US news organisations and journalists, United States officials say.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/julian-assange-unlikely-to-be-charged-in-us-20131126-2y7uk.html

WIFI is one of the great inventions of the digital age and for Australia's CSIRO, the flow of millions of dollars in royalties from the WiFi project finally has come to a close. CSIRO yesterday confirmed that all 19 international patents in the WiFi family had expired by November 24, 21 years after the first patent was filed in 1992.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/technology/csiros-wifi-windfall-comes-to-an-end/story-e6frgakx-1226768161114#

Cicada 3301: the internet code-breaking mystery that has the world baffled. For the past two years, a mysterious online organisation has been setting the world's finest code-breakers a series of seemingly unsolvable problems.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/cicada-3301-the-internet-codebreaking-mystery-that-has-the-world-baffled-20131126-2y6sj.html

Microsoft is hoping to bring 3D printing to the masses with the launch of a free 3D printing app for Windows 8.1 devices.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/3d-printing-for-the-masses-20131125-2y62r.html

SOUTH Australia's teachers of the future will have to study longer than students in any other state in a radical shake-up of university standards aimed at improving the quality of education in our schools. From 2020, all new teachers will need to have a Master degree qualification and have studied for at least five years - as long as a double degree in law and commerce.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/all-new-south-australian-teachers-will-need-master-degrees-in-shakeup-of-education-standards/story-fni6uo1m-1226768270969

IT IS one of the mysteries of our time. Who or what is 'Satoshi Nakamato'? And just what are they up to? The Japanese name is the alias of the founder of Bitcoin, the virtual currency that's got the internet abuzz. But his, her or their real identity is unknown.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/your-business/who-is-sotashi-nakamato-the-founder-of-bitcoin/story-fni0d9ql-1226768142364

Photographer wins $1.3m payout from companies that took images from Twitter. The jury found Agence France-Presse and Getty Images wilfully violated the Copyright Act when they used photos Daniel Morel took in his native Haiti after the 2010 earthquake

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-23/photographer-wins-2412-mln-from-companies-that-took-pics-off-/5112824

THE most ambitious effort to drag US schools into the digital age is in danger of being derailed by hacker students, disgruntled teachers and tens of millions of dollars in unforeseen costs. Within days, however, more than 300 teenagers from three of the first high schools to receive the iPads found a way to bypass pre-installed security measures. Instead of studying, they were accessing social media websites such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/kids-shoot-a-hole-in-la-ipad-plan/story-fnb64oi6-1226767310015#

RESEARCHERS are trying to plant a digital seed for artificial intelligence by letting a massive computer system browse millions of pictures and decide for itself what they all mean. The system at Carnegie Mellon University is called NEIL, short for Never Ending Image Learning. In mid-July, it began searching the Internet for images 24/7 and, in tiny steps, is deciding for itself how those images relate to each other. The goal is to recreate what we call common sense - the ability to learn things without being specifically taught.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/technology/us-researchers-try-to-teach-computer-common-sense/story-fni0byb7-1226767467305