New finding: in 49 Australian industries the major firms are owned by common investors

Shared ownership means Australian industries are far more concentrated than traditional metrics suggest.
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CSIRO boss explains why seL4 team was dumped - InnovationAus

CSIRO chief executive Dr Larry Marshall has explained why the agency sensationally dumped the team behind the seL4 microkernel, saying he did not believe it was feasible to spin out the research in Australia and that it didn’t fit with the agency’s new focus on AI. The Trustworthy Systems team, which developed the extremely hard-to-hack microkernel in use around the world and who are regarded as world-leading in the field, sits within CSIRO’s digital arm Data61 but was dropped by the agency last month. They quickly received interest from a number of potential overseas buyers, before receiving a funding lifeline from the University of...
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Australia is becoming a surveillance state

Government continues to give more powers to law enforcement.
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Help Rebuild Notre Dame by Sponsoring a Statue

A stone sculpture of a pelican named Corson is among the dozens of Notre Dame artifacts that you can support.
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Prince Harry Is Contradicting Himself

An examination of interviews that Harry has given over the years shows inconsistencies and omissions in the story he is now telling the world.
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TOLA laws weakening encryption also weaken trust, and pose multi-billion-dollar risk to Australian digital economy

Internet Australia welcomes the release of the first in-depth economic study into the likely detrimental impact of TOLA (Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018,
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The Pentagon Seriously Contemplated Nuking China in 1958

Newly leaked documents show that US officials in 1958 cavalierly planned a nuclear strike on China over a handful of disputed islands. As Washington once more stokes tensions with China, it’s a reminder of the callous recklessness at the heart of US foreign policy.
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