Australia

Sydney Uni data goes walkabout after criminals raid code repo

Attackers helped themselves to historical personal info on 27K people

Cyber-crime19 Dec 2025 | 17

Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths

Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn’t escalate their concerns

Networks19 Dec 2025 | 47

Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban

Forum site says it’s potentially more harmful to users who don’t log in

Legal12 Dec 2025 | 71

Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane

VIDEO ‘Chute opened early and snagged on a stabilizer

Offbeat11 Dec 2025 | 84

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

Still, the ban has reset expectations and may reduce harm, and that’s kind of enough

Legal09 Dec 2025 | 80

Google and Apple ordered to stop fake government TXTs

Asia in Brief PLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more!

Public Sector01 Dec 2025 | 13

70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture

Asia In Brief PLUS: Manga publishers win Cloudflare copyright case; India, EU to link payment systems; Storm over Australia’s weather website; And more!

Security24 Nov 2025 | 86

Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia

Carrier insists network wasn't at fault when smartphone couldn't reach 000

Personal Tech18 Nov 2025 | 56

Jaguar Land Rover hack cost India's Tata Motors around $2.4 billion and counting

Asia In Brief PLUS: Active noise cancellation for entire rooms; More trouble for Korea Telecom; The Wiggles apologize for bad batteries; and more

Security17 Nov 2025 | 23

Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’

‘Elite teams’ are pondering cyber-attacks to turn off energy supply or telecoms networks

Security12 Nov 2025 | 35

Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit

Updated Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don’t want, once it fixed a bad link

SaaS06 Nov 2025 | 45

AN0M, the backdoored ‘secure’ messaging app for criminals, is still producing arrests after four years

55 cuffed last week after court ruled sting operation was legal

Security04 Nov 2025 | 17

Australian police building AI to translate emoji used by ‘crimefluencers’

Five Eyes intel alliance has created a team to target these scum who prey on kids

Cyber-crime29 Oct 2025 | 19

Australia sues Microsoft for misleading M365 users about Copilot subscription options

Asia In Brief PLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more!

Legal27 Oct 2025 | 34

Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know

As ban on under-16s using some sites looms, cyber-safety regulator sends Microsoft’s code locker a letter

Legal25 Sep 2025 | 49

Firewall upgrade linked to three deaths after Australian telco cut off emergency calls

Optus was unaware network changes caused a problem, and ignored some customer complaints

Networks21 Sep 2025 | 41

Tesla Model Ys recalled Down Under for overly enthusiastic electric windows

Software glitch means glass may clamp down harder than intended

Personal Tech02 Sep 2025 | 42

Australian university used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors

Asia In Brief PLUS: India bans ‘money’ games; SK Hynix cranks out 321-layer SSDs; Fastly re-thinking CDNs for Asia; and more!

Security25 Aug 2025 | 46

Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot

Also fired another AI - GitHub Copilot - after it produced ‘mixed results in utilization and efficacy’

AI + ML22 Aug 2025 | 39

Everybody needs good neighbors – especially ones who sell you solar energy

P2P power networks beat stingy feed-in tariffs for Aussie households, study finds

Science18 Aug 2025 | 37

Google admits anticompetitive conduct in Australia, agrees to modest fine

Asia In Brief PLUS: Philippines bans gambling payments; Indonesia warns Roblox; China lures young scientists; And more!

Legal18 Aug 2025 | 12

Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns

$79 million is a small price to pay to keep China at bay

Off-Prem14 Aug 2025 | 18

Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia

Federal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market power

Legal13 Aug 2025 | 1

Amazon’s Kuiper satellite broadband to offer commercial services in mid-2026, at least in Australia

Updated Maybe sooner in other places

Networks05 Aug 2025 | 6

Top spy says LinkedIn profiles that list defense work 'recklessly invite attention of foreign intelligence services'

Workers on joint US/UK/Australia nuclear submarine program are painting a target on themselves

Cyber-crime01 Aug 2025 | 45

Australia bans kids from signing up for YouTube accounts, angering Google

‘We want kids to know who they are before platforms assume who they are’ says Minister

Legal30 Jul 2025 | 63

Australia’s attempt to join the space race lasts just 14 seconds

‘I would have liked more flight time but happy with this’ says CEO of private rocket outfit

Science30 Jul 2025 | 38

Japan discovers object out beyond Pluto that rewrites the Planet 9 theory

Asia In Brief PLUS: Perplexity AI scores 360-million-customer win in India; Australian billionaire’s political party suffers data breach, won’t contact victims; and more

Science21 Jul 2025 | 15

'Quad' nations launch plan to stop China making critical minerals into Unobtanium

India, Japan, USA and Australia see risks and opportunities in rare earths

Public Sector03 Jul 2025 | 12

Australian airline Qantas reveals data theft impacting six million customers

Frequent flyers’ info takes flight

Security02 Jul 2025 | 17

Australia not banning kids from YouTube – they’ll just have to use mum and dad’s logins

Regulator acknowledges that won’t stop video nasties, but welcomes extra ‘friction’

Public Sector27 Jun 2025 | 29

AI-hosted infomercial shifts $7.5 million worth of product in China

Asia In Brief PLUS: India tries to untangle TXT marketing opt-ins; China’s AI crackdown succeeds; Australia and Boeing team AWACS, drones; and more!

AI + ML23 Jun 2025 | 3

Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work

Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties

Personal Tech20 Jun 2025 | 40

Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme

Asia In Brief PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more

Cyber-crime16 Jun 2025 | 3

Regulator sues product comparison site alleged to only compare products on which it earned commission

No wonder those products always rated so highly

Legal03 Jun 2025 | 18

Aussie businesses now have to fess up when they pay off ransomware crims

Move should help government track infections and plan new legislation

Public Sector31 May 2025 | 13

Aussie rocket foiled by premature fairing pop

Updated A fair dinkum disaster

Science19 May 2025 | 27

New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts

Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote

Public Sector07 May 2025 | 30

Retirement funds reportedly raided after unexplained portal probes and data theft

Australians checking their pensions are melting down call centers and websites

Cyber-crime04 Apr 2025 | 9

After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft's AI less useful than expected

Not all bad news for Redmond as Australian agency also found strong ROI and some unexpected upsides

AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 54

DeepSeek rated too dodgy down under: Banned from Australian government devices

As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms

AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 10

Privacy Commissioner warns the ‘John Smiths’ of the world can acquire ‘digital doppelgangers’

Australian government staff mixed medical info for folk who share names and birthdays

Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 44

Is that a bird’s nest, a wireless broadband base station, or both?

Everything in Australia is deadly, in this case giant eagles guarding eggs in places wireless broadband techs need to reach

Offbeat10 Jan 2025 | 66

Australia moves to drop some cryptography by 2030 – before quantum carves it up

The likes of SHA-256, RSA, ECDSA and ECDH won't be welcome in just five years

Security17 Dec 2024 | 51

Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch

If Zuck and other Big Tech players pay news publishers, their bills vanish

Legal12 Dec 2024 | 71

Doctor Who theme added to national sound archive to honor innovation, longevity

Australia’s archive, that is – it was an Aussie who wrote it

Offbeat11 Dec 2024 | 50

Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate

Also intros surveillance tweaks to protect very successful AN0M fake messaging app sting

Legal28 Nov 2024 | 84

Google to wrap up Christmas Island with new subsea cable

Connection will tie remote territory to Darwin in North Australia

Networks27 Nov 2024 | 11

Hardware barn denies that .004 seconds of facial recognition violated privacy

Claims it was just spotting shoppers who threatened staff at Bluey's favorite big box store

AI + ML19 Nov 2024 | 32

Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with metre-long tool left inside engine

Emails and tool-tracking software weren't heeded, but nothing scary happened - except to the nylon tool

Offbeat15 Nov 2024 | 162

Australia tells tots: No TikTok till you're 16... or X, Instagram and Facebook

Tech companies, not users, to be punished for violations of social media time-out

Personal Tech11 Nov 2024 | 87

Tower PC case allegedly used as 'creative cavity' by drug importer

Motherboard missing, leaving space for a million hits of meth

Cyber-crime31 Oct 2024 | 53

Billionaire SaaS CEO loses title after week of sleaze allegations

Not much more than a slap on the wrist as WiseTech boss stays on in new role and keeps salary

Legal25 Oct 2024 | 6

Woman stuck upside down under rock for hours after trying to retrieve dropped phone

Emergency services had to move a boulder to get her out

Personal Tech23 Oct 2024 | 68

Elon Musk's X mashed by Australian court for evading child protection reporting

Argument that it didn't inherit Twitter's legal obligations did not hit the spot

Legal04 Oct 2024 | 74

Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways

Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation

Networks25 Sep 2024 | 6