Four vulnerabilities put 900 million Android handsets at risk of attack and other top stories.

• Four vulnerabilities put 900 million Android handsets at risk of attack

  

  Check Point warns of QuadRooter flaws SECURITY RESEARCHERS at Check Point have found four Android vulnerabilities dubbed QuadRooter that affect 900 million devices, or basically any device using a Qualcomm chipset. The firm announced the four troublemakers at Defcon, which is the kind of place where they do the kind of things that people don't usually want to talk about. Check Point has plenty to say about QuadRooter and a handy list of the affected phones by model and manufacturer. They in..

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• Equinix completes $37 million Melbourne data centre upgrade

  

  Equinix has completed a $37 million upgrade to its ME1 Port Melbourne data centre to nearly double its capacity. The expansion added another 750 cabinets and 17,900 square feet (1,663 square metres) to Equinix's only Victorian data centre, taking ME1 to 1,125 cabinets and 35,790 square feet (3.325 square metres) of co-location space. The multinational co-lo and connection provider said that internet service providers could benefit from a reduction in IP transit costs and improved end user exper..

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• Alien hunters are fixated on a mysterious star, which refuses to reveal its secrets

  

  A mysterious star has attracted global attention since its strange properties came to light in October last year. The star showed an odd pattern of dimming that could not be explained by any known natural phenomenon. Among the hypotheses that has yet to be disproved: the star is surrounded by an alien megastructure. Such extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, as the famous astronomer Carl Sagan put it. Ever since Tabetha Boyajian of Yale University found KIC 8462852, or Tabby’s st..

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• Tiger sharks opt to feed on dead turtles for 'easy feast' on Great Barrier Reef, researchers find

  

  Tiger sharks opt to feed on dead turtles for 'easy feast' on Great Barrier Reef, researchers find Updated August 08, 2016 17:07:30 A decade-long tiger shark study on the Great Barrier Reef has found the apex predators prefer an easy meal to stalking prey.The research involved scientists from James Cook University, the Australian Institute of Marine Science and Biopixel.Researcher Richard Fitzpatrick, from Biopixel and James Cook University, said the study had given scie..

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• AgForce to Trad: Stop misrepresenting the facts

  

  QUEENSLAND landholders have hit back at deputy premier Jackie Trad’s latest farmer bashing episode, saying tree clearing statistics are being selectively used by the Palaszczuk government to ramp up support for its controversial new vegetation management laws.  AgForce president Grant Maudsley said Ms Trad was misrepresenting the latest Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) report and was ramping up rhetoric surrounding the Great Barrier Reef in a desperate bid to shore up support for prop..

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