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21 May, 2015

Several Minecraft YouTubers are estimated to earn more than $1 million a year, and the best has more views than Lady Gaga.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/bigger-than-gaga-youtubers-making-a-living-off-narrated-minecraft-tours-20150521-gh6d8w.html

IN studios-in-glasshouses-shouldn’t-throw-stones news, the company behind Dallas Buyers Club seeking to sue Australians for copyright infringement is itself being sued for copyright infringement.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/technology/dallas-buyers-club-studio-suing-australians-faces-its-own-monster-lawsuit-involving-godzilla/story-fni0byb7-1227361324597

Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet as Industry Points to Effectiveness of Copyright Notice-and-Notice System

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/05/canadian-piracy-rates-plummet-as-industry-points-to-effectiveness-of-copyright-notice-and-notice-system/

Chinese firm Huawei today announces its IoT OS at an event in Beijing. The company predicts that within a decade there will be 100 billion connected devices and it is keen for its ultra-lightweight operating system to be at the heart of the infrastructure. Based on Linux, LiteOS weighs in at a mere 10KB -- smaller than a Word document -- but manages to pack in support for zero configuration, auto-discovery, and auto-networking.

http://betanews.com/2015/05/20/huaweis-liteos-internet-of-things/

Telstra’s Asian-based data centre and undersea cable operator Pacnet has been hacked by unknown sources, exposing legions of the telco’s corporate customers, including the Australian Federal Police, to a massive security breach.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/telstras-pacnet-breached-by-hackers/story-e6frg906-1227361690909

18 May, 2015

Chinese search giant Baidu says it has invented a powerful supercomputer that brings new muscle to an artificial-intelligence technique giving software more power to understand speech, images, and written language.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/537436/baidus-artificial-intelligence-supercomputer-beats-google-at-image-recognition/

A security researcher hijacked an airplane's engines after hacking its in-flight entertainment systems, according to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. Chris Roberts, a well-known US security researcher, told FBI agents in February that he'd hacked in-flight entertainment systems on over a dozen flights and on one occasion hijacked an aircraft's thrust management computer and briefly altered its course.

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/hacker-admits-hijacking-plane-midair-fbi-20150517-gh3fne.html

Yesterday Bill Shorten in his budget reply speech said all kids needed to learn to code. This week 7000 students are doing that courtesy of Microsoft. And Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has a similar message: “We need to expose more students to coding so they are inspired to create, build and develop new technologies rather than just being passive users of it

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/kids-flock-to-code-at-microsoft-wespeakcode-event/story-e6frgakx-1227355957729