World War III is going to be dumb. It only seems fitting that Bitcoin could get thrown into the mix of dumb reasons why it might get started. When South Korean cryptocurrency exchange YouBit was looted by hackers this week it seemed to be inevitable that North Korea would be…
Today, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairperson Mary Jo White announced a whole slew of initiatives designed to tighten the leash on computerised high-speed trading in the stock market. If you’re playing the stock market and you’re not a supercomputer, that’s very good news.
Around 60,000 Victorians won’t be able to read this story. Why? Because a fire that tore through a Telstra telephone exchange building overnight gutted communication services to the south-western region of the state. Landlines, broadband, smartphones, ATMs. Everything.