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Don't Panic

Don’t Panic, It’ll All Be Fine

Corporal Jones always used to say “Don’t panic, don’t panic!”, usually when things were about to turn to custard. That was certainly how I’ve been feeling this past week, when what should have been a routine plugin upgrade for our membership system all of a sudden caused

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Bravo, Elon!

Bravo, Elon!

David Stockman brownstone.org David Stockman, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is the author of many books on politics, finance, and economics. He is a former congressman from Michigan, and the former Director of the Congressional Office of Management and Budget. He runs the subscription-based analytics site ContraCorner. Wow, now

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Don't Panic

Don’t Panic, It’ll All Be Fine

Corporal Jones always used to say “Don’t panic, don’t panic!”, usually when things were about to turn to custard. That was certainly how I’ve been feeling this past week, when what should have been a routine plugin upgrade for our membership system all of a sudden caused

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Don't Panic

Don’t Panic, It’ll All Be Fine

Corporal Jones always used to say “Don’t panic, don’t panic!”, usually when things were about to turn to custard. That was certainly how I’ve been feeling this past week, when what should have been a routine plugin upgrade for our membership system all of a sudden caused

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social media sows seeds of distrust

How They’re Pulling All Our Strings

When Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter became a firm prospect, the Biden administration threatened to step in and kill the deal. Why would they do that? Because they are terrified of what Musk, lately a convert to the Republican party, might find and make public. We know something

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Don't Panic

Don’t Panic, It’ll All Be Fine

Corporal Jones always used to say “Don’t panic, don’t panic!”, usually when things were about to turn to custard. That was certainly how I’ve been feeling this past week, when what should have been a routine plugin upgrade for our membership system all of a sudden caused

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Don't Panic

Don’t Panic, It’ll All Be Fine

Corporal Jones always used to say “Don’t panic, don’t panic!”, usually when things were about to turn to custard. That was certainly how I’ve been feeling this past week, when what should have been a routine plugin upgrade for our membership system all of a sudden caused

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Musk May Allow Users to ‘Select’ Preferred Twitter Feed

Musk May Allow Users to ‘Select’ Preferred Twitter Feed

Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Elon Musk seems to be toying with a plan that would allow Twitter users to “select” which version of Twitter they prefer. Musk was following up on responses to his Saturday tweet stating that the platform would implement a “content moderation council” with “widely diverse viewpoints.

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Don't Panic

Don’t Panic, It’ll All Be Fine

Corporal Jones always used to say “Don’t panic, don’t panic!”, usually when things were about to turn to custard. That was certainly how I’ve been feeling this past week, when what should have been a routine plugin upgrade for our membership system all of a sudden caused

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Don't Panic

Don’t Panic, It’ll All Be Fine

Corporal Jones always used to say “Don’t panic, don’t panic!”, usually when things were about to turn to custard. That was certainly how I’ve been feeling this past week, when what should have been a routine plugin upgrade for our membership system all of a sudden caused

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Tech Talk: New Zealand LibreOffice Spell Checker?
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Tech Talk: New Zealand LibreOffice Spell Checker?

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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Tech Talk: A Three Trick Pony?
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Tech Talk: A Three Trick Pony?

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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Google Doesn’t Want to Protect You from Porn

Google Doesn’t Want to Protect You from Porn

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. In the latest skirmish in the cancel culture wars, Google is booting apps for fighting porn addiction off its app store. In a little-noticed move last month, the internet behemoth removed Covenant Eyes and

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Billion-Dollar Kiwi Industry in Crisis

Conor English Chelsea Rapp, Chair, New Zealand Game Developers Association Information Opinion Australia is setting out to steal one of New Zealand’s most promising and innovative sectors – interactive media. Video games and apps are one of our biggest digital exports, earning over $300m each year, putting the sector up

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What Is Multi-Factor Authentication and How Do I Use It?

What Is Multi-Factor Authentication and How Do I Use It?

Jongkil Jay Jeong Ashish Nanda Syed Wajid Ali Shah Deakin University Dr. Jongkil Jay Jeong is a Senior Research Fellow for the Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre exploring next-generation Digital ID services and technologies. Dr Ashish Nanda is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CSRI)

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