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07 December, 2013
04 December, 2013
Another online drug marketplace bit the dust over the weekend and another massive Bitcoin heist shook the deep web. Sheep Marketplace, one of the two most prominent Silk Road competitors, went down on Saturday in the US. A message posted briefly on the site on Saturday claimed that one of Sheep Marketplace's vendors exploited a security flaw and stole 5400 Bitcoin (BTC), or $6.3 million at its current value. The heist could be even larger than that, though; it may have involved up to 96000 BTC ($112.1 million), which would be by far the largest Bitcoin theft given that Bitcoin's value is currently at an all-time high.
Spotify, the world's most popular music streaming service, has revealed how much an artist makes from each song listened to in an effort to fight criticism it shortchanges musicians. if a hit by a US singer is listened to one million times, the artists will receive about $US1500, Spotify said.
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Intellectual Property,
Sustainability
A WEBSITE to be launched in Queensland today will house the world's first specialist language MOOC. Dubbed the Massive Open Online English Course, the site features more than 50 free lessons developed by 15 Queensland colleges and universities. Its creators expect the offerings to double by mid-next year as institutions join up from interstate, and hopefully overseas. MOOEC is the brainchild of non-profit agency International Education Services, which created Australia's first MOOC - a course for education agents - in 2005
AUSTRALIAN teenagers' reading and maths skills have fallen so far in a decade that nearly half lack basic maths skills and a third are practically illiterate. The dumbing down of a generation of Australian teenagers is exposed in the latest global report card on 15-year-olds' academic performance. Migrant children trumped Australian-born kids while girls dragged down the national performance in maths, the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report, released in Paris last night, reveals.
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