Universities and researchers all over the world have a problem with Microsoft. It’s not just that the company forces expensive and dated software on customers. Using products like Microsoft’s email service…
How the internet is governed is no longer a matter seen fit to be left to mere technical committees. With the extent of online surveillance, so dramatically revealed by the Snowden files, increased content…
A leak of secret US files reveal details of the drone strike programme. But is this really a ‘new Snowden’?
Defence force families in Australia are falling into poverty because military superannuation funds and pensions are not indexed at a fair rate. Is this how we, as Australians, want to treat those who have…
Reactions in South Africa give little reason for hope that the virus will bring people closer together or trigger more energetic action against poverty.
Barack Obama has so far held firm against a growing chorus demanding that the US should boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi after Russia’s introduction of discriminatory laws banning gay “propaganda…
Several key figures travelled to Soviet Russia in its early days to witness the socialist state in action.
In the wake of the latest New York Times/Guardian UK/ProPublica triple team effort breaking news of America’s National Security Agency’s (NSA) anti-cryptography effort Sigint, a new level of social contract…
While there is only one world power on the internet, that situation will not last forever. The internet’s underpinning technologies were mostly created in the US, the initial networks were based there…
Apple’s refusal to back down in its fight with the FBI is a sharp reversal from just a few years ago when it was the government urging tech companies to do more to protect consumer privacy.
