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Teen star of YouTube’s Bratayley family dies at age 13

October 5, 2015 publisher computer-screen, daina-beth, internet-org, matter, person-familiar, police, sydney, their-digital

By Daina Beth Solomon LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Teen YouTube star Caleb Logan LeBlanc, part of the popular “Bratayley” family on YouTube known for posting humorous, wholesome daily videos, has died suddenly at age 13, his family and police said. LeBlanc died on Thursday in Maryland following a “medical emergency,” the Anne Arundel County Police Department said in a statement on Monday. “Responding officers arrived and observed a juvenile male patient suffering from an unknown medical emergency

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U.S. to hold final auction of bitcoins from Silk Road case

October 5, 2015 publisher auction-on-nov, bitcoin, creator, final-auction, government-took, internet-org, matter, sydney, their-digital

The U.S. government on Monday announced that it would hold a final auction of bitcoins seized during the prosecution of the creator of Silk Road, an online black market where illegal drugs and other goods could be purchased with the digital currency. The U.S

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CentralNIC – Powering the xyz to Google’s abc

August 13, 2015 creative alphabet, announcement, california, crawford, giant-unveiled, internet, london-based, mountain, photo, search-page, sydney, website-because

Ben Crawford was asleep 12,000 km (7,500 miles) from Google Inc's Mountain View, California headquarters this week when the Internet giant unveiled its new face. Crawford, chief executive of London-based CentralNIC Group Plc, woke up in Sydney to learn that the domain powered by his company – .xyz – would host the website of Google's new company, Alphabet Inc.

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Cricket-Ashes rout branded ‘day of infamy’ in horrified Australia

August 7, 2015 publisher australia, daily-telegraph, dixons-carphone, entire, fourth, overs-at-trent, sold-out-crowd, stuart-broad, sydney, test-prompted, trent-bridge

Australia’s stunning dismissal for 60 runs on day one of the fourth Ashes test prompted incredulous headlines in local newspapers on Friday along with calls for the citizenship to be stripped from the entire team. “What a disgrace,” was a front-page headline on Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, above a picture of embattled Australia captain Michael Clarke

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Vanderbilt football team apologizes for ‘don’t need your permission’ tweet

August 6, 2015 admin attitude-toward, australia, brandon, brandon-banks, dixons-carphone, entire, football-team, fourth, overs-at-trent, permission, raised-concerns, sold-out-crowd, sydney, test-prompted, trent-bridge

(Reuters) – Vanderbilt University’s football team apologized for tweeting on Thursday “we don’t need your permission,” a phrase that raised concerns about its attitude toward sexual assault two years after four former players were first accused of rape. The full tweet, which has since been removed from the team’s Twitter account, read: “We are relentless, tough and intelligent and …” above a graphic that read, “We don’t need your permission.” “We apologize for today’s tweet.

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Telstra says newly acquired Pacnet hacked, customer data exposed

May 20, 2015 creative consequences, country, hack, online-controls, other-business, sydney, telstra, were-essential

Australian telecommunications firm Telstra Corp Ltd said on Wednesday computer systems at its recently acquired undersea cable company Pacnet Ltd had been hacked, potentially exposing sensitive customer information to theft. Telstra said the corporate information technology network of Pacnet, email and other business management systems of the company, had been accessed by an unauthorized third party several weeks before its $550 million takeover of the firm was completed on April 16. Telstra said it didn't know who was behind the hack

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Governor of Japan’s Okinawa to press U.S. for removal of base

May 20, 2015 creative country, governor, japan-national, online-controls, prefecture, press-club, prime-minister, sydney, takeshi-onaga, transfer

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – The governor of the Japanese island of Okinawa said on Wednesday he will travel to the United States next week to press his demand that a U.S.

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Cricket-New Zealand still bubbling over semi-final performance

March 24, 2015 creative become-one, companies, ground-reigning, hotel-urbano, meet-four-times, silicon-valley, six-defeats, stutchbury, sydney, towering-six, while-their

By Greg Stutchbury AUCKLAND, March 25 (Reuters) – Grant Elliott’s towering six which propelled New Zealand into their first cricket World Cup final was still generating media buzz on Wednesday. The 36-year-old dispatched Dale Steyn’s delivery over deep midwicket to take New Zealand to 299 for six on Tuesday, giving them a tense four-wicket victory over South Africa in the first semi-final at Eden Park. It ended a run of six defeats in semi-finals for New Zealand, who will play either Australia or India in Sunday’s final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

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Australian documentary unspools race riots dating back to 19th century

February 17, 2015 publisher australia, cronulla, cronulla-beach, documents-nine, film, incident-pitted, north, north-cronulla, pauline-askin, race, racist-flare-up, sally-aitken, since-the-mid, sydney

By Pauline Askin SYDNEY (Reuters) – A racist flare-up in a beachside Sydney suburb hit the global spotlight nine years ago, besmirching Australia's reputation as a sun-drenched oasis wooing migrants from around the world. A TV documentary attempts to show the alcohol-fueled riots of December 2005 were not an aberration and that racial tension in Australia had simmered long before the Cronulla Beach incident pitted white surfers against ethnic Lebanese youths. “The Great Australian Race Riot” documents nine major riots since the mid-19th century, beginning with sectarian violence between Irish Catholics and British Protestants living in Melbourne that led to bloodshed on city streets in 1846.

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Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

February 17, 2015 publisher afghanistan, bluffdale, cronulla, data-gathering, documents-nine, figured-out-how, incident-pitted, pakistan, race, racist-flare-up, sally-aitken, security, sydney, yemen

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives.

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