A class action against Optus could easily be Australia’s biggest: here’s what is involved
ShutterstockWith the Optus data breach exposing almost 10 million current and former customers to identity theft, law firms are circling...
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Blaming poor labour conditions in Ghana’s transport sector on ride-hailing companies misses the deeper issues
Ride hailing companies have found success in the transport sector in Ghana. G.KBediako/Wikimedia CommonsRide-hailing services like Uber and Lyft have...
What is multi-factor authentication, and how should I be using it?
tsingha25/ShutterstockData breaches are becoming commonplace in both small and big tech companies. The most recent victim was Australian telecommunications company...
Elon Musk’s revived US$44 billion Twitter bid is another twist in this tale, but it may not be the last
With only about two weeks to go before a court case over his attempts to withdraw his US$44 billion (£39...
Optus data breach: regulatory changes announced, but legislative reform still needed
Mark Baker/APIn response to Australia’s biggest ever data breach, the federal government will temporarily suspend regulations that stop telcos sharing...
Nobel-winning quantum weirdness undergirds an emerging high-tech industry, promising better ways of encrypting communications and imaging your body
Devices like this experimental apparatus can produce pairs of photons that are linked, or 'entangled'. Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of...
Tesla’s Optimus robot isn’t very impressive – but it may be a sign of better things to come
TeslaIn August 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the electric car manufacturer was planning to get into the robot business....
Optus says it needed to keep identity data for six years. But did it really?
Among the many questions raised by the Optus data leak – cybersecurity experts are confident it wasn’t a hack, but...
Eliud Kipchoge broke the men’s marathon record by 30 seconds. How close is the official sub-2 hour barrier now?
Eliud Kipchoge crosses the line to win the Berlin Marathon on September 25, 2022. Christoph Soeder/APSixty-nine seconds. In that time,...
What are tactical nuclear weapons? An international security expert explains and assesses what they mean for the war in Ukraine
This Russian short-range cruise missile, the Iskander-K, can carry nuclear warheads for several hundred miles. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service...
