Australia has passed legislation to stop the double taxation of digital currencies such as bitcoin.

The US Government appears to have withdrawn an invitation extended to Eugene Kaspersky, the head of Kaspersky Lab, to testify before Congress after the company's products were banned from use by US Government agencies.

It seems that every day brings another Android security issue. Serious flaws in all Lenovo's Android tablets and a number of mobile phones made by the company have been patched after an independent researcher notified the company about the vulnerabilities.

Visiting a Web page that quietly uses the visitor's computing power to mine digital currencies through a script on the page in question will result in a sudden degradation of the PC's performance, a senior infosec official says.

A report that the personal data of millions of Malaysians was up for sale for an unspecified amount in bitcoin appears to have been taken down on the instructions of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, the country's regulator for the converging communications and multimedia industry.

A gene developed by scientists at the CSIRO has helped Canadian biotech company Okanagan Specialty Fruits to keep its apples from turning brown when they are cut, bitten or bruised.

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