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Shauna McGee Kinney
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Cyber business analyst based in Perth, Western Australia.
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Iceberg A23a—once the world's largest—melts and breaks into smaller pieces in the southern Atlantic Ocean as summer peaks in the Southern Hemisphere.
February 5, 2026 at 3:35 PM
“… the $500 extra on the price would pay back the $15 million once Apple had sold 30,000 Macs. By April 1984, it had sold 50,000.” @appleinsider.com

When financial analysis is gets an unforecasted boost from risky yet clever advertising?
It's lauded as one of the most effective ads ever made, it stunned viewers, but on January 22, during the Super Bowl, "1984" launched the Macintosh without even showing the product once. It almost didn't make it to air.
How Apple nearly chickened out and nearly didn't run its famous "1984" ad
It's lauded as one of the most effective ads ever made, it stunned viewers, but on January 22, during the Super Bowl, "1984" launched the Macintosh without even showing the product once. It almost didn't make it to air.
appleinsider.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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A captivating display of the northern lights hung in the sky above the northern hemisphere for a couple of nights due to the recent severe geomagnetic storm from the Sun.
January 22, 2026 at 9:02 PM
What about AI for small businesses?

WA AI Hub is restarting their online Ai for business courses in February

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January 5, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Selfish? Make your data and logic yours!

I’m a founding member of the Western Australian AI Hub. We have members who help WA businesses implement their own, secure, optimised system.

www.aiperth.org/services/sov...
Western Australian AI Hub - Building WA's sovereign AI future with humanity at the centre
Join Western Australia's premier AI community. Connect with industry leaders, access world-class training, and advance ethical AI adoption across WA's key sectors.
www.aiperth.org
December 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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California's Central Valley has been shrouded in Tule fog for the last 16 days.
December 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Last night, a severe geomagnetic storm painted magnificent colors of the northern lights across a starry canvas over North America.
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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A brilliant presentation of the aurora borealis high above the Earth last night following the arrival of a strong geomagnetic storm from the sun.
September 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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New Podcast Episode:
Security Now: The EU's Online Age Verification
Consumer Reports vs. Microsoft
with Steve Gibson, @leolaporte.me
The EU's Online Age Verification | TWiT.TV
Consumer Reports on Windows 10 updates.Waste (not fraud or abuse) within DoD Cyberoperations.China's DeepSeek produces deliberately flawed code.WebAssembly v3.0 officially
twit.tv
September 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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The teardown of the iPhone 17 Pro has provided more answers about scratches on the model, while also giving a close-up view of the vapor chamber cooling system.
iPhone 17 Pro teardown reveals vapor chamber, explains scratches
The teardown of the iPhone 17 Pro has provided more answers about scratches on the model, while also giving a close-up view of the vapor chamber cooling system.
appleinsider.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
@onthemedia.bsky.social did a fabulous series of podcasts untangling private radio stations and conspiracies behind them. Start here podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/o...
S2 THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 1: Fishing In The Night
Podcast Episode · On the Media · 07/05/2025 · 34m
podcasts.apple.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Radio clicks and buzzing? Maybe the woodpecker is still alive! Old tech conspiracy

youtu.be/CGSlpQjV5SU?...
The secret Soviet radar hidden in Chernobyl’s shadow - BBC REEL
YouTube video by BBC Global
youtu.be
August 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Fascinated by the back channels and espionage conspiracy theories www.wired.com/story/uvb-76...
The Mysterious Shortwave Radio Station Stoking US-Russia Nuclear Fears
A popular shortwave Russian radio station dubbed “UVB-76” has been an enigma for decades. But its recent messages have turned it into a tool for Kremlin saber-rattling.
www.wired.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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On 14 July 2025, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration announced to have detected GW231123, a gravitational wave signal generated by the merger of the two most massive black holes ever observed.

With masses of approximately 100 and 140 times that of the Sun, these cosmic giants

🔭 🧪 #cosmology
July 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Now I remember - Towel Day (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy).

hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Towel_Day
May 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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A few days ago I had the opportunity to sit down with @leolaporte.me @jeffjarvis.bsky.social and @paris.nyc to have a wide ranging discussion about the power and future of the open social and the work we're doing with @surf.social

You can check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwd1...
Between Two Orbs - Meet Surf, Flipboard's Solution for a Fractured Social Web
YouTube video by Intelligent Machines
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May 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
How does the culture of our country impact how we do business together?

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Country comparison tool
Please select a country in the dropdown menu below to see the values for the 6 dimensions. After a first country has been selected, a second and even a third country can be chosen to be able to see a ...
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May 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Perth Festival of Business Analysis Perth: Tuesday 21 October 2025, Novotel Perth Langley festivalofbusinessanalysis.org/tickets/
May 4, 2025 at 5:09 AM