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  • Microsoft fails Aussie maths compatibility test

    Microsoft's decision to dump compatibility with Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) in favour of its own Office MathML (OMML) in Office 2007 is unlikely to win any support in Australia, where software tools like TeX, MathType and Mathematica predominate.

  • Kiwi research network live at last

    Five years after the concept was first proposed by New Zealand government officials, a high speed broadband network linking the country's eight universities and several other research institutions has finally gone live.

  • Data-mining pioneer joins Microsoft

    Not every big name in search is going to Google.

  • Make games not nukes: DTI outsources to Russia

    The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is hoping to keep Russian nuclear scientists from spreading weapons secrets by employing them as software engineers.

  • Google recruits eggheads with mystery billboard

    A billboard placed this week in the heart of Silicon Valley posed a complex mathematical question that most commuters on Highway 101 would need Google to crack.

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  • Photos: The digital heroes of WW2

    As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.

  • Photos: Colossus war hero resurrected

    The Colossus code-cracking computer has recently been kicked into action for the first time in more than 60 years.

  • Fix major Microsoft Office flaws

    A Chinese academic has revealed a major problem with the way Microsoft's encryption tool handles Word and Excel files. This flaw could allow a cracker with basic cryptography skills to decrypt the files.

  • Do business people get IT?

    Everyone always says IT workers need to better understand business - but, asks Martin Brampton, could the real problem be business people who don't understand IT?

  • Let's go, crypto

    Security expert Bruce Schneier looks at how cryptography has blossomed from a secretive NSA technology to a global public tool.

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  • Crypto scientists crack prime problem

    Computer scientists in India crack an age-old mathematical problem to help quickly prove whether a figure is a prime number--a vital step in computer cryptography.

  • Hark the fuzzy sweater sings

    German chip maker Infineon will make your clothes sing in a couple of years.

  • Thinking Machines?

    "What is intelligence?" The answer for now is, we don't know. But that hasn't stopped researchers from designing systems that act independently of human beings, learn from experience, and make decisions.

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