The ruler of Dubai hacked his wife's phone using multimillion-pound spyware in a total abuse of trust and power, a British High Court has found.
Jess Glass
Australia has slipped five places to 20th among 64 countries ranked for their digital competitiveness.
AAP
A US company is developing the first dating app for virtual reality headsets.
Liz Hobday
Clive Sinclair, the pocket calculator pioneer and "electronics wizard" behind the first affordable consumer computer, has died aged 81.
US social media giants Facebook and Twitter have been fined by a Russian court for failing to delete content.
Your palm could soon be your ticket into a concert as Amazon is showing.
Following a a settlement with Japan's anti-trust regulator, Apple Inc will let some apps like Netflix Inc provide links to their websites for user payments.
Stephen Nellis and Tim Kelly
James Cook University researchers have used artificial intelligence to predict some of the key markers of drought conditions up to six months ahead of time.
China has issued draft rules in Beijing's latest move to crackdown on its internet sector and the use of algorithms to entice users to spend money.
Brenda Goh
The Biden administration is seeking help from tech companies and financial institutions to counter increasingly sophisticated ransomware attacks.
Eric Tucker
Facebook is testing a new virtual reality remote work app, Workrooms, in which users can attend meetings as avatar versions of themselves.
Elizabeth Culliford
Australia's growing cyber attack threat has sparked a demand for more "ethical hackers".
Tim Dornin
Amazon has copped a huge fine from the European Union for processing personal data in violation of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.
Alphabet's Google has been slapped with a 500 million euro fine by France's antitrust watchdog over a news publishing row.
Tech giants have pushed back on proposed powers that would allow the federal government to intervene in companies' networks to block cyber attacks.
The army's former chief of cyber warfare says Australia's critical data should not be stored overseas, while new cyber security laws can't come soon enough.
A probe into Bill Gates' involvement with an employee almost 20 years ago was conducted by Microsoft after concerns were raised.
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin needs huge amounts of energy - which could see electricity shortages or big changes to the way the currency is powered.
A month after Eastern Health was hit by a cyber attack, the Victorian government has announced $30 million to improve hospital and health services IT.
Australian businesses are being told to urgently download new security updates for vulnerable Microsoft Exchange systems after the company found fresh holes.
Luke Costin
Seven Chinese supercomputing entities have been added to a US economic blacklist for assisting Chinese military efforts.
David Shepardson
Electronics maker LG says it is getting out of its loss-making mobile phone business.
Sophia the robot has caused a stir in the art world after a digital work she created was sold for more than $900,000 in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT).
Zen Soo and Alice Fung
TPG Telecom’s David Teoh has resigned from one of the major forces in the Australian telecommunications industry, having steered a merger between the company he founded and Vodafone last year.
Steven Deare
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