Uber Australia to pay $178M to settle cabbies' class action Nice payday for some, but plenty of Australians still pay extra to help drivers Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 13
Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams Australian minister singles out Meta – where Zuck has 600,000 Nvidia GPUs ready to roll Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 26
Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia So much for the 'commitment to support news organizations' made in just 2020 Personal Tech01 Mar 2024 | 87
Australian spy chief fears sabotage of critical infrastructure And accuses a former Australian politician of having 'sold out their country' Cyber-crime29 Feb 2024 | 17
Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp Pair had to dodge croc on trek back to civilization Bootnotes23 Feb 2024 | 77
Australian supercomputer 'Taingiwilta' comes online this year with [REDACTED] inside Exec in charge laments that in defence HPC down under, you can pay a veteran expert a mere web dev's salary HPC21 Feb 2024 | 20
Square Kilometre Array precursor looks to filter out satellite interference Starlink isn't the biggest problem, but increasing numbers of orbiting transmitters isn't helpful HPC20 Feb 2024 | 13
Australia has no next-gen HPC investment plan and clouds can't fill the gap Academy of Science calls for exascale system, which would cost more than current budgets for all supers HPC20 Feb 2024 | 4
A visa to fill Australia's empty tech jobs is getting more expensive, but maybe better value Application process gets a massive overhaul Public Sector19 Feb 2024 | 44
India buys a third of the world's wearable devices Asia In Brief PLUS: Australian Parliament calls for Assange release; Japan's H3 rocket soars; LINE leak worsens Personal Tech18 Feb 2024 | 2
Australian Tax Office probed 150 staff over social media refund scam $1.3 billion lost as identity fraud – and greed – saw 57,000 or more seek unearned tax refunds Cyber-crime14 Feb 2024 | 3
Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours Rushed law will lose criminal sanction, but debate about its utility is fierce Legal12 Feb 2024 | 81
ANZ Bank test drives GitHub Copilot – and finds AI does give a helping hand Expert Python programmers saw the most benefit AI + ML10 Feb 2024 | 40
An established AI player is in nasty trouble – in this market? What? Why? Australia's Appen boasted of clients including Amazon and Microsoft. Then work dried up, Gen AI arrived, and Google bailed AI + ML06 Feb 2024 | 8
Australia imposes cyber sanctions on Russian it says ransomwared health insurer 'Aleksandr Ermakov' isn't allowed down under after being linked to ten-million-record leak Cyber-crime23 Jan 2024 | 9
Google to lay Asia-Pacific to South America undersea cable Humboldt cable to zoom from Chile to Australia through the South Pacific Networks12 Jan 2024 | 10
Court hearings become ransomware concern after justice system breach From legal proceedings to potential YouTube fodder Cyber-crime02 Jan 2024 | 6
Your landlord should offer on-prem cloud, suggests immersed datacenter upstart Server tanks can do more than heat water – they can also build into resilient many-site clouds On-Prem18 Dec 2023 | 16
Australia building 'top secret' cloud to catch up and link with US, UK intel orgs Plans to share 'vast amounts of data' – very carefully Security07 Dec 2023 | 21
China's first undersea datacenter sinks – as planned Asia In Brief PLUS: India's landmark digital law delayed; Singaporean banks de-digitize some accounts; AUKUS to unleash AI Off-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 3
X/Twitter booted out of Australia's disinformation-fighting club Ghosted authorities after complaint during hotly contested referendum Legal28 Nov 2023 | 61
Datacenter architect creates bonkers designs to illustrate the craft, and quirks, of building bit barns They’re basically skyscrapers, says Charles Fortin. But they could be ships, cars, or rocks On-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 36
Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch That, plus an outage, and cyber-mess, do for Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 48
Australia declares 'nationally significant cyber incident' after port attack Asia in brief PLUS: Citrix quits China; Cambodia deports Japanese scammers; Chinese tech CEO disappears; and more Security13 Nov 2023 | 3
Major telco outage leaves millions of Australians disconnected Communication minister advises businesses to “keep receipts” Networks08 Nov 2023 | 36
Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting All without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit Software31 Oct 2023 | 34
US, Australia solicit Google's help with Pacific subsea cable project $65 million cable project to connect US to Australia by way of Fiji and French Polynesia Networks26 Oct 2023 | 3
Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs Elon Musk's social network provided no response – or junk – to official inquiries about its safety practices Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 18
Canva creates $200M kitty to pay creators for stuff they feed its design-bot Maybe this being-ethical-with-creators-and-not-just-ripping-off-their-stuff thing is gathering steam AI + ML05 Oct 2023 | 7
Pacific telco backed by Australia, Japan, US bins Huawei Nokia looks a more diplomatic choice at Digicel Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2023 | 2
UK splashes £4B to dive into next-gen nuclear submarines Detailed design and long lead contracts signed off for SSN-AUKUS project Public Sector03 Oct 2023 | 23
Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza Pizza Hut Australia says 190,000 customers' info – including order history – has been accessed Security21 Sep 2023 | 98
Australia to build six 'cyber shields' to defend its shores Local corporate regulator warns boards that cyber is totally a directorial duty Security19 Sep 2023 | 26
China iPhone curbs reportedly extend to local government and state-owned businesses Asia In Brief ALSO: Alibaba Cloud succession plan overturned; Fujtisu’s Thai takeaway; Australia takes on PayPal Legal11 Sep 2023 | 7
DXC Technology named as participant in bid-rigging cartel Agreed bid prices in advance with local rival for work in Australian mining camps Legal07 Sep 2023 | 3
Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind Off-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 32
Samsung teases 1TB DDR5 modules with launch of 32Gb die Asia in Brief PLUS: China allows first wave of chatbots, India’s sun-spotter soars; ASUS smacks down speculation it will quit smartphones On-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 3
Oracle Cloud, Netsuite, and Azure go down, hard, Down Under Updated Storm that passed through Sydney saw clouds sleep early and struggle to wake up PaaS + IaaS30 Aug 2023 | 12
Dell fined $6.5M for 'error in pricing process' down under Blunder made bundled monitors more expensive than standalone purchases Personal Tech14 Aug 2023 | 1
Indian authorities reject Infosys 'COVID ate my homework' excuse Asia In Brief Tencent keyboard app allowed eavesdropping; Australia, Japan, sour on TwitX; China seeks to ID app devs Legal14 Aug 2023 | 3
Australian Senate committee recommends bans on Chinese social media apps WeChat accused of 'contempt for Parliament' as transparency rules floated for platforms Security02 Aug 2023 | 14
Australian court orders Meta subsidiaries to pay $14 million over data use Adverts said Onavo Protect user data would be kept a secret – just didn't say from whom Legal26 Jul 2023 | 9
Unidentified object on Australian beach may be part of Indian rocket launcher Probably not aliens, maybe Offbeat18 Jul 2023 | 49
Australia's 'great example of government using technology' found to be 'crude and cruel'. And literally lethal to citizens Report on 'Robodebt' scheme calls for major reforms, plus review of Feds' automation, data-sharing Software07 Jul 2023 | 46
'We hate what you’ve done with the place – especially the hate' Australia tells Twitter Issues official 'please explain why your moderation is rubbish' notice backed by big fines Legal22 Jun 2023 | 101
Data leak at major law firm sets Australia's government and elites scrambling BlackCat attack sparks injunction preventing coverage of purloined docs Security20 Jun 2023 | 24
Australia to phase out checks by 2030 Bouncing them all – starting with government – but cash gets to stick around Personal Tech07 Jun 2023 | 123
Dell down under dinged for dodgy display discounts Promoted bundled monitors are bargains, but actually sold them for above regular prices Personal Tech06 Jun 2023 | 12
Australian cyber-op attacked ISIL with the terrifying power of Rickrolling Commanders in the field persuaded to give up, let their guard down, run around and desert their posts Security05 Jun 2023 | 10
Meta threatens to pull all news from California rather than pay El Reg a penny And, ahem, other publishers Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 55
Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers Everything down under wants to either kill you, or underpay you Legal31 May 2023 | 29
One of the world's most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned The Australian Securities Exchange became a poster child for seriously serious distributed ledgers, but now wants to walk away Software22 May 2023 | 49
Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted Now the minister responsible has threatened regulation Legal17 May 2023 | 59
Big Tech mainstays named as targets of PwC tax law leak Consultancy's Australian arm is in deep trouble after offering advice on how to avoid rules its people helped write Legal15 May 2023 | 3
China lands mysterious reusable spacecraft after 276-day trek Asia In Brief PLUS: Smartphone sales slump in India, China; Singapore's Temasek denies crypto investment; Dyson's new battery plant; and more Science08 May 2023 | 25
Chinese scientists calculate the Milky Way's mass as 805 billion times that of our Sun Asia In Brief ALSO: Australia says offensive hacking is working; DJI hit with $279m patent suit; Philippines Police leak data; and more Security24 Apr 2023 | 12
Military helicopter crash blamed on failure to apply software patch A rather nice beach in Australia now briefly hosted an unusual feature Patches18 Apr 2023 | 49
As defense tech goes commercial, does national security miss out? Investors and educators called on to think more broadly at think tank event Defense Tech Week05 Apr 2023 | 14
Bank rewrote ads for infosec jobs to stop scaring away women Blokes happily bluffed; women played it by the book, leaving the bank struggling to hire Security04 Apr 2023 | 111
Australia takes its turn to kick TikTok off government kit Even a politician who visited China last week has binned the app Defense Tech Week04 Apr 2023 | 6
Australian bank stops handling cash at the counter in some branches Crikey! Get those banknotes to an ATM, mate! Software04 Apr 2023 | 40
Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble Cyber-crime21 Mar 2023 | 4