Tuesday, June 7, 2016

The storms took out Amazon customers like Foxtel and Domino's, highlighting a key risk with the cloud and other top stories.

  • The storms took out Amazon customers like Foxtel and Domino's, highlighting a key risk with the cloud

    The storms took out Amazon customers like Foxtel and Domino's, highlighting a key risk with the cloud
    Australian businesses have been warned they need to spread the risk in their cloud computing operations across different regions after the Sydney storms on Sunday knocked out the operations of numerous Amazon Web Services customers. The ferocious storms that hit NSW, left AWS clients including Domino’s Pizza, Foxtel, The Iconic, Stan and Domain without websites or key systems for hours. It served as a warning that sending systems to the cloud, rather than hosting them on-premise, did not remove..
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  • HSV builds 85000th vehicle

    HSV builds 85000th vehicle
    Holden Special Vehicles is celebrating a huge milestone this week, having produced its 85,000th car. Hitting the landmark number less than a year before Commodore-based production ends for good, the 85,000th HSV is a blue Clubsport R8 LSA destined for sale through the brand’s oldest dealership – Garry and Warren Smith in Oakleigh, Victoria. This is the fifth milestone that has been celebrated with a HSV Clubsport in the manufacturer’s 29-year history – the 40,000th, 50,000th, 75,000th and 80,0..
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  • Virtual reality provider Zero Latency expands to Japan, US and Europe

    Virtual reality provider Zero Latency expands to Japan, US and Europe
    Virtual reality provider Zero Latency expands to Japan, US and EuropeChris GriffithThe Australian12:00PM June 7, 2016SavePrint Technology reporterSydneyChris's love affair with computing spans more than 45 years. He learnt to program in the late 1960s, studied computer science in the early 70s, worked on mainframes, taught programming, ran a small business networking PCs in the 80s, and built websites in the 90s. In journalism he has written extensively across rounds, been a columnist and comme..
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  • Facebook Messenger major security flaw discovered

    Facebook Messenger major security flaw discovered
    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: AP A major security flaw that allowed hackers to change chat history in Facebook's Messenger app, potentially spreading malware or engaging in fraud, has been revealed.The bug allowed hackers to change code in the app – both desktop and mobile versions – and alter the text of past messages. A YouTube video demonstrates this in action.Security firm Check Point, whose researcher Roman Zaikin discovered the flaw, said hac..
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  • Queensland police officer points gun at man caught speeding

    Queensland police officer points gun at man caught speeding
    A suspended Queensland police officer who was filmed pointing his gun at a man caught speeding is fighting to have his pay re-instated.Senior Constable Stephen Flanagan was driving on the Landsborough Highway near Longreach in May last year when he clocked a ute driving at 126kmp/h in a 110kmp/h zone.In a video tendered to the Supreme Court, obtained by the ABC, the officer doesn't use his siren but instead beeps at the ute driver repeatedly in an effort to pull the car over. The driver slows d..
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  • Overwatch review: 7 million people can't be wrong

    Overwatch review: 7 million people can't be wrong
    Tank hero D.Va spends most of her time riding a powerful mech, but can trigger a self-destruct to scatter enemies, continuing the fight on foot. A competitive, team-based, online multiplayer shooter, Overwatch has all the ingredients of a game I would usually avoid like the plague. Yet in the weeks and months prior to its release, the sheer volume of internet chatter about this new title from Blizzard — creators of World of Warcraft, Diablo III and many others..
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  • Samsung Pay Makes Its European Debut

    Samsung Pay Makes Its European Debut
    4 Shares Share Tweet Share Share Share Email Samsung Pay has officially launched in Spain, bringing the mobile wallet into its first European country. Samsung Pay is the first mobile payment service of its kind to be launched in Spain, giving it a head start in the market over Apple Pay and Android Pay. “Our goal with Samsung Pay is to drive and lead innovation in mobile commerce, giving consumers a safer, smarter and better mobile wallet,” Victor Kim, global director of Samsung Pay, expla..
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  • Volkswagen Adds Manual Transmission To Golf GTI 40 Years Edition

    Volkswagen Adds Manual Transmission To Golf GTI 40 Years Edition
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  • Popular sports car punches above its weight for safety

    Popular sports car and 2015 New Zealand Car of the Year finalist, the Mazda MX-5, has been awarded a 5 star safety rating by the Australasian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP). The 2015 model is an improvement on its 4 star predecessor and has one of the highest pedestrian protection scores ANCAP has recorded for any vehicle to date. The MX-5 has an active, or ‘pop-up’, bonnet which is designed to provide extra clearance between a pedestrian’s head and the vehicle’s stiff components beneath...
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