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Where does this leave our NBN?
THE UK has announced a funding push because it was “falling behind on the roll out of full-fibre”. So what does that say about our NBN?
Girl’s heartbreaking tweets from Aleppo
JK ROWLING has been sending books to a seven-year-old girl who has shocked the world with her tweets from war-torn Syria.
IBM pays out millions for Census fail
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull says IBM was overwhelmingly responsible for this year’s census debacle — and the tech giant has paid big time.
Reddit blocks crazy Clinton conspiracy
REDDIT has been forced to shutdown a forum dedicated to users investigating a wild Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate.
Girl’s heartbreaking tweets from Aleppo
JK ROWLING has been sending books to a seven-year-old girl who has shocked the world with her tweets from war-torn Syria.
Reddit blocks crazy Clinton conspiracy
REDDIT has been forced to shutdown a forum dedicated to users investigating a wild Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate.
Awkward: Twitter kicks out CEO
JUST when you thought social media couldn’t get more awkward, Twitter has suspended the account of its co-founder and chief executive officer.
Nazi ‘Troll Goddess’ in latest Twitter ban
FORMER porn actress and reality TV star Tila Tequila is the latest alt-right troll to be banned from Twitter following another strange pro Nazi photo.
This anti-piracy campaign is laughable
VILLAGE Roadshow is known for its measures to stop piracy, but its latest efforts have made an absolute mockery of its harsh stance.
Say goodbye to The Pirate Bay
THOSE who illegally download television shows and movies are about to find it much harder, with leading torrent sites in Google’s scope.
Genius way pirates are beating the system
GOOGLE might try to beat them down with fancy algorithms but illegal pirates always find a way. The war on piracy is far from over.
IBM pays out millions for Census fail
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull says IBM was overwhelmingly responsible for this year’s census debacle — and the tech giant has paid big time.
‘Bitcoins or I start executing patients’
HOSPITALS have become increasingly vulnerable to cyber criminals. And there’s virtually no security in place to stop them.
‘Shazam is always listening’
SHAZAM is a godsend when wanting to instantly identify that unknown song playing in the background, but it has a very creepy secret.
Millions exposed in sex website hack
THE dirty secrets of nearly 400 million sex website users have been revealed in a massive hack - the “largest breach we’ve ever seen” of its kind.
Facebook removes breast cancer video
A VIDEO showing women how to spot suspicious lumps on their breasts has been deleted by Facebook because it deemed the images offensive.
Eight-year-old cancer kid told: ‘Just die’
ANIMAL rights activists have bombarded a young cancer patient with abusive messages after he took part in a bullfight show in Spain.
Germany threatens to sue Facebook
FACEBOOK, Twitter and Google are removing illegal content from the internet more often, but more work is needed, says Germany.
IBM pays out millions for Census fail
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull says IBM was overwhelmingly responsible for this year’s census debacle — and the tech giant has paid big time.
Radical fight against revenge porn
AUSTRALIA will target the growing problem of revenge porn with a beefed-up cybersafety watchdog and a new tool to take nude photos off the web.
Mystery behind ‘tower of doom’
IT WAS built to withstand an atomic blast and for years people have wondered what its story is. Now all has been revealed.
Creepy website monitors you
A NEW website has been developed to demonstrate how your online behaviour is analysed in real-time and it’s actually very troubling.
Where does this leave our NBN?
THE UK has announced a funding push because it was “falling behind on the roll out of full-fibre”. So what does that say about our NBN?
Slow internet behind record complaints
THE industry Ombudsman reported 20 per cent more complaints in 2016 about this one issue that annoys a lot of Australians.
NBN speeds could be 900 times faster
NBN co has become the third global operator to trial new technology that could increase internet speeds by 900 times the current Australian average.