Apple services have been restored after an outage which lasted for more than an hour.
Staff Writers
Tech giant Google is reportedly looking at incorporating AI-powered search features to its premium subscription service.
Optus’ Singaporean owner Singtel has sought to hose down reports that it is in talks to flog the embattled telco business.
Simone Grogan
Artificial intelligence could boost NSW's economy and make it hard for its citizens to trust the government, as an inquiry considers the technology.
Jack Gramenz
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit claiming OpenAI has abandoned its goal of developing artificial intelligence for the common good.
Jahnavi Nidumolu and Aditya Soni and Sheila Dang
Two Australians, rescued in different ways by smartwatch technology, will tell their stories in short films created by Apple.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady believes customers will hold off upgrading their mobile phones while cost of living pressures continue to persist in the economy.
Gerard Cockburn
The impact of cost-of-living pressures is seemingly easing up on the phone and internet front, as Aussies raising financial hardship with the telecommunication watchdog decrease 11 per cent.
Adrian Rauso
Using artificial intelligence to moderate content will be a key aspect of Facebook's future, according to a social media expert.
Martyn Landi
Three days after a thunderstorm lashed Perth, generators are flying off shelves, people are tossing out food, many are unable to call triple-0 and some don’t even have water.
Lauren Price, Bethany Hiatt and Caleb Runciman
Digital rights groups are pushing back against a proposal to require apps and other online services to scan for child abuse material and pro-terror content.
Kat Wong
Socialising online seemed a necessary evil during the COVID pandemic but virtual quizzes and discos didn't do as much to alleviate loneliness as first thought.
Katelyn Catanzariti
The chief executive of Optus has bowed to immense public and political pressure and announced she will quit the job less than two weeks after a nationwide outage.
Daniel Newell
Australian internet users are being urged to change their passwords and vary them across accounts as online crime rises.
Small businesses will be able to access free cyber security ‘health checks’ and one-on-one help to recover from crippling online attacks under a new Federal Government plan.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in hospitals and doctors' offices but one expert says it's best used keeping doctors away from fax machines.
Cash compensation is looking unlikely for Optus customers left in the lurch amid the telco’s chaotic outage last week, with under-fire chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin knocking back financial compensation.
Software giant Atlassian will issue guidance to firms considering the use generative AI tools in their businesses to avoid unintended outcomes.
Telstra has pledged more high-speed internet to WA, with a major build-out that includes an expansion of fibre connections across the Pilbara.
Optus has revealed the source of its 12-hour system outage last week that left 10 million Australians without phones or internet.
Katina Curtis
New plans for a mobile phone tower to overcome a signal black spot in Morley have had a good reception.
Michael Palmer
Artificial intelligence will be used to identify and flag threatening messages sent to victims' bank accounts, in a tool to be shared with banks worldwide.
Optus suffered another seismic reputational blow on Wednesday, with a national outage leaving millions of Australians without mobile or internet access, and even leaving some customers unable to call triple-0.
Dylan Caporn and Cheyanne Enciso
Optus’ naming rights for Perth Stadium have come into the spotlight after the under-fire telco giant’s national outage left millions of Australians without mobile and internet services on Wednesday.
Jake Dietsch and Dylan Caporn