While much of Australia continues to grumble about slow Internet, the City of Adelaide has endorsed the development of a business case to build a Ten Gigabit Optical Fibre network to cover the CBD and North Adelaide areas of the South Australian capital.

Reports are emerging that Yahoo!'s claimed 500 million record database breach in 2014 may have been much larger — somewhere between one and three billion — and the company may have deliberately hidden that fact.

Samsung's exploding Galaxy Note7 has earned the company a Shonky Award, the annual awards that are given out by Australian consumer group CHOICE.

The Twittersphere has been buzzing with complaints from users unable to use VPNs after an upgrade to iOS 10.x or macOS Sierra.

A newly published poll showing many Australians regard the Internet as an essential service has prompted Internet Australia CEO Laurie Patton to call on the Government to urgently review its NBN strategy.

The messaging app Signal has been shown to be the best for those who care about their privacy, with the company behind it being unable to provide anything more than the duration of a user's membership after it received a subpoena.

You will soon be able to use an iPhone to log into a Windows PC – and we thought the twain shall never meet. Windows Hello is coming to iPhone and many more devices.

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