Thursday, June 9, 2016

Death of serial killer William 'The Mutilator' Macdonald not suspicious: coroner and other top stories.

  • Death of serial killer William 'The Mutilator' Macdonald not suspicious: coroner

    Australia's first serial killer, William 'the mutilator' Macdonald, in 1995. Photo: Peter Solness He was compared to Jack the Ripper during a killing spree that terrorised Sydney. William Macdonald murdered and mutilated four men with a hunting knife, taking one victim's genitals home in a paper bag before throwing them off the Harbour Bridge. The gruesome slayings earned him the nickname "The Mutilator" and a life sentence in prison.  ..
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  • Chrome 51 on Android to not have merged tabs any more

    Chrome 51 on Android to not have merged tabs any more
    Google has released the latest version of Chrome for Android called Chrome 51. Along with the performance and stability fixes, Chrome 51 brings back one of the most loved feature of the Chrome mobile browser – tabs. With the Lollipop update, Chrome had got rid of the small square beside the address bar showing how many tabs you had opened. Instead it decided to merge the open tabs with the open apps. That feature would put the open tabs in the app switcher instead within the Chrome browser. Thi..
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  • Tinder Gets Nervous About "Responsibility," Makes App 18+ Only

    Tinder Gets Nervous About
    In case you had any doubt, Tinder is for adults only: The dating app is banning users younger than 18 starting next week. It used to be that anyone over 13 with a Facebook account could use the app, though people ages 13 to 17 could only be matched with people in that same four-year range. Still, the company has gotten nervous about “responsibility” and has been reviewing this new policy since early this year, according to spokesperson Rosette Pambakian. She added that the change will probably..
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  • Samsung Pay headed to Australia

    Samsung Pay headed to Australia
    Samsung Pay is set to arrive in Australia on 15 June to compete with rivals Apple and Android. American Express has already signed up to the service in the country, while participation from Citibank is still speculation at this time. Australian banks Bank of Melbourne, Bank SA, Westpac, Bendigo Bank and St. George are also on board. Commonwealth Bank and National Australia Bank are not yet part of the list, and it’s currently unknown if they will support Samsung Pay at all. Samsung first announc..
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  • The GOG.com Summer Winter Sale is Now On!

    The GOG.com Summer Winter Sale is Now On!
    And to begin they're offering up free copies of System Shock 2 to everyone for the first 48 hours of the sale! Which, in case you need reminding, is an absolute classic. In order to claim your copy you'll need the GOG Galaxy client but that's no big deal. Also checking in each day, buying games, and doing things like adding games to your wishlist will also earn you XP, leading up to free copies of games like Gabriel Knight remastered and even Dreamfall Chapters. Which, is pretty awesome. Oh,..
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  • Xbox Live Gold subscribers get EA Access for free in E3 week

    Xbox Live Gold subscribers get EA Access for free in E3 week
    Xbox Live Gold subscribers get EA Access for free in E3 week By Hadlee Simons on 9 June, 2016 Microsoft has announced that the EA Access subscription service will be available for free to Xbox Live Gold subscribers from 12 June until 22 June. In case you missed it, EA Access delivers a library of the publisher’s games to Xbox One users for $5 a month or $30 a year. The 20-strong library includes NBA Live 16, Titanfall, Rory McIlroy PGA Tour, FIFA 16, NHL 16, Madden NFL 16, Dragon Age: Inquis..
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  • IBM and Cisco Team on Internet of Things, Watson Tech

    TOP OF THE NEWS   JUNE 9, 2016 CLOUD COMPUTING IBM Releases Cloud-Based IDE To make data scientists' lives easier.
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  • ​Bitdefender finds eavesdropping vulnerability in public cloud

    ​Bitdefender finds eavesdropping vulnerability in public cloud
    Security firm Bitdefender has found a vulnerability in public cloud infrastructures which it said allows a third party to eavesdrop on communications encrypted with transport layer security (TLS) protocol.The vulnerability is leveraged by Bitdefender for its own research purposes, developing a technique called TeLeScope, which is only effective against virtualised environments that run on top of a hypervisor. According to Bitdefender, such infrastructures are provided by industry giants Amaz..
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  • AWS blames 'latent bug' for prolonging Sydney EC2 outage

    AWS blames 'latent bug' for prolonging Sydney EC2 outage
    Amazon Web Services has explained the extended outage its Sydney services suffered last weekend, attributing downtime to a combination of power problems and a “latent bug in our instance management software”. Sydney recorded over 150mm of rain on last weekend. On Sunday the 5th the city copped 93 mm alone, plus winds gusting to 96 km/h. Amazon says that bad weather meant that “At 10:25 PM PDT on June 4th [mid-afternoon Sunday in Sydney – Ed] , our utility provider suffered a loss of power at a ..
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