Show Notes
Major reform agenda for Australia’s .au domain launched for discussion most significant changes” to the country-code top-level domain for thirty years. reforms include the option for .au domain name holders to drop .com, .org or equivalents from their web addresses. … Read More
Apple’s $499 smart home speaker gets Australian launch date Apple has jumped into the voice speaker wars with the HomePod smart speaker, a device that will use its Siri voice assistant and compete against offerings from Amazon and Google. … Read More
Bitcoin slides 18 percent on crackdown fears; crypto rivals also plunge Bitcoin’s slide triggered a massive selloff across the broader cryptocurrency market, with biggest rival Ethereum down 23 percent on the day, according to trade website Coinmarketcap, and … Read More
Apple under fire from shareholders for iPhone addiction Apple has come under fire from two of its largest investors for failing to address the growing problem of young people becoming addicted to iPhones. Jana leading activist shareholder, and … Read More
Consumer electronics vendor Belkin rapped for “lifetime” warranties that only lasted five years The vendor has accepted a court-enforceable undertaking following an investigation by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. Belkin sold products between 2016 and 2017 that were … Read More
Two keyless entry door locks vulnerable to unauthenticated requests A vulnerability found in two keyless entry door locks enables local attackers to lock and unlock doors as well as create their own RFID badges by sending unauthenticated requests to … Read More
Apple to pay $20 billion in back tax to Ireland The European Commission said the record sum was the result of Apple receiving unfair tax incentives from Ireland. More than a year after the EU order, Dublin’s slow … Read More
Dear Internet Archive Supporter, You’re one of the special people who keeps the Internet Archive going strong—independent and ad-free. We’re a nonprofit website that the whole world depends on. Not everyone can afford to give. But you can. And … Read More
Apple goes to mediation over denying customers fixes for “error 53” Reports emerged in February last year that some customers updating their iPhone’s operating system, or who restored the device to factory settings would receive the error 53 warning, which … Read More
Telstra to compensate 42,000 customers with slow NBN The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said that limitations of the national network’s fibre-to-the-node and fibre-to-the-building services meant that customers that had purchased internet plans advertised with maximum download speeds of up … Read More