Major flooding in Northern Tasmania has damaged backbone fibre optic cables in three locations in under 24 hours, exposing the fragility of telecommunications infrastructure in the state, according to consumer action group Digital Tasmania.

Ride-sharing service inDrive has partnered with MapUp’s toll intelligence service TollGuru to supply local travellers with information for toll roads in Sydney and cities across Australia.

Sydney-based privacy and data-sharing tech firm World Data Exchange has acquired digi.me, a UK platform operator that helps businesses and governments develop and deploy consumer-centric applications.

Microsoft's decision to block macros originating from the Internet by default has led to threat actors resorting to disk image and archive-based attacks, the global security firm Sophos claims.

AI-powered communication platform Dialpad’s AI Contact Centre Offering has launched in Australia and New Zealand.

Consumer gaming electronic company Razer has unveiled the Razer Edge 5G designed in collaboration with Qualcomm and telecommunications company Verizon.

Telco complaints per 10,000 services decreased by 7.9% in 2021-2022, according to figures provided by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

Five Wi-Fi vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel have been patched and a new stable kernel, 5.10.148, released by stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman. The patches have also been included in the latest release, 6.1, by Linux creator Linus Torvalds.

The Medibank Group, which announced on Thursday it had suffered a data breach, says it has now restored access to its ahm and international student policy systems.

The attach rate for the Apple Watch in North America reached 30% of iPhone users in the first six months of 2022, the highest for any half-year since launch, the technology analyst company Counterpoint Research says.

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Stan Beer, newsletter editor, iTWire



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