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A massive success: 10 years of World of Warcraft (Q&A)

Now playing: Watch this: World of Warcraft hits its tenth anniversary 5:19 It’s the Methuselah of video games. It launched in a world without iPhones, Facebook or YouTube — and when AMD Athlon 64 processors were beating the pants off Intel’s Pentium 4. It’s been with us long enough that people have met through the game, married, and had children …

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Metadata retention laws introduced to parliament

AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney-General George Brandis. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET Malcolm Turnbull has today introduced a bill for mandatory data retention into parliament, requiring telcos and ISPs to retain telecommunications data for a period of two years. The Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2014 [PDF] is the third and final piece …

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