"Anonymous is, for now ... in a crippled state," according to Barrett Brown , a former journalist and commentator who founded Project PM . On this week's Patch Monday podcast, Brown, who has been working with Anonymous for about a year and a half, discusses the hacktivist group's position in the wake of revelations that Sabu, a core member and informal leader of the offshoot hacking group LulzSec, had become an FBI informant .

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Anonymous 'crippled': where to for hacktivism?

Despite being slapped on the wrist for its last big advertising campaign, Optus is confident that its new "free" broadband ads won't catch the eye of the industry watchdog.

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Full Spectrum: Optus 'free' broadband

There are always cool new apps coming out, so it's hard to keep up. ZDNet Australia brings you a taste of some of the apps that have surfaced or been updated recently.

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ZDNet App Wrap: 14 May 2012

Queensland water-services and waste water-services company Unitywater has outsourced its IT services to CSG for the next three years.

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CSG takes Qld water firm to the cloud

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has put to bed claims that he is a fierce advocate for open architecture over closed architecture, saying that he sees value in both.

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Apple's closed ecosystem not all bad: Woz

Melbourne is no longer photographing number plates to determine those who are overstaying their welcome in the city's paid parking bays, after technology issues thwarted the system. (Parking meter image by Alpha , CC BY-SA 2.0 ) The system uses a high-speed digital camera with built-in GPS and optical character-recognition capabilities. It was driven around the streets of Flemington, Kensington, North Melbourne and Carlton to track how long cars had been sitting in parking bays.

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Melbourne council pulls parking cameras

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been appointed to look after GAME Australia as the company today entered voluntary administration. According to PwC, the company will continue to operate its 92 stores around the country, while it "considers a solution for the future".

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GAME Australia enters administration

It seems that the entitled, technology-savvy passengers of today just aren't scared of their aeroplane dropping from the sky and crashing into a flaming heap. This morning, Crikey pointed out a news item from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), which said that its voluntary confidential reporting scheme, REPCON, had received complaints about passengers using their phones for texting and internet during flights from Sydney to Melbourne.

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Ignoring in-flight mobile bans: a piracy issue

Telstra and Vodafone have released carrier setting updates to iPad owners, enabling the Personal Hotspot feature on the new iPad, and allowing users to share the data available through the SIM card with other Wi-Fi-enabled devices. (Credit: Apple) Australia's other major telco, Optus, has yet to release a similar update for its customers.

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Telstra, Vodafone turn on iPad Personal Hotspot

Security researchers have put out a call to the public to help verify the claim that hackers that are targeting Wi-Fi networks in hotels. The warning was sounded last week , with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issuing an intelligence note stating that its recent analysis has found that travellers are being targeted when they connect to their hotel room internet connections

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Researchers investigate FBI Wi-Fi claim