Gumtree shaken by hack attack and other top stories.

• Gumtree shaken by hack attack

  

  Gumtree admitted its security had been compromised in April 2016, revealing users' personal details.Jennifer Dudley-NicholsonNews Corp Australia NetworkAUSTRALIAN users of the popular online sales site Gumtree may be targeted by online criminals after the site was hacked last weekend, exposing users’ personal details. The company, owned by online auction house eBay, contacted many of its customers to warn accounts had been “compromised in a security attack” which it had reported to the Austral..

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• Australian bearded dragons experience deep sleep, dreams, scientists say

  

  Australian bearded dragons experience deep sleep, dreams, scientists say Posted April 29, 2016 09:01:56 Research in a German laboratory involving five Australian bearded dragons indicates the reptiles may dream and could prompt a fundamental reassessment of the evolution of sleep. Key points:Until now, only mammals and birds were known to experience REM and slow-wave sleepThe discovery suggests sleep traits emerged far earlier than previously suspectedLizards average..

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• Tinder Social: What the new group dating feature is really like

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled into an old friend and her buddies who looked utterly deflated at a burger restaurant in Sydney, Australia late on a Friday night.  They were at the end of a lacklustre group date with a band they had met on Tinder. The band had set up their own profile, and invited the girls to a pub they were playing at nearby that night. "It seemed like it would be fun," my friend said, half eating a burger. The date was actually a rather boring and awkward affair, a far cry..

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• Death of reef looms: top scientists

  

  Death of reef looms: top scientistsBy Tracey FerrierAAPApril 29, 2016 3:12PMSavePrint Climate change will certainly kill off large swathes of the Great Barrier Reef, top Australian scientists say.What's really at stake now is how much of the reef, if any, can survive beyond the turn of the century, they say.Climate and reef experts from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science have analysed the mass coral bleaching event currently playing out along almost the entire length of the..

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• Sky Muster now being rolled out to rural and remote Australia

  

  Sky Muster now being rolled out to rural and remote Australia Written by Kate McDonald on 29 April 2016. The National Broadband Network has officially launched its wholesale broadband satellite service dubbed Sky Muster, with 85,000 users expected by this time next year, including the 37,000 currently using the interim satellite service. NBN is promising a boon to rural and remote healthcare provision with the new service, which has been designed to deliver wholesale speeds of up to 25 Mbp..

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• New Reef Discovered off the Coast of Brazil

  

  The Amazon River is the second largest river in the world and the first in terms of water discharge, an average of 209.000 cubic meters per second. As the river's freshwaters merge with the Atlantic Ocean, a "plume" with an area of up to 1 300 000 square kilometers is formed, distinguished by the patches of mud floating on the water's surface.Since this plume causes major shifts in the salinity, acidity, light penetration and sedimentation in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean, an international t..

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• Loss of ocean oxygen to become widespread by 2030s

  

  OCEANS DEEP:But without marine life?Photo: C. Ratheesh Kumar There is bad news for marine life as a new study has found that loss of oxygen in oceans due to climate change which is already discernible in some parts of the world should be evident across large regions of the oceans between 2030 and 2040.Large scale ocean deoxygenation could leave fish, crabs, squid, sea stars, and other marine life struggling to breathe.“Loss of oxygen in the ocean is one of the serious side effects of a wa..

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