CrowdStrike blames a bug in its quality control systems for allowing bad data to be sent to customers, leading to an outage that wreaked havoc around the world.
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Hundreds of thousands of former TPG Telecom email customers will be slugged up to $95 a year for each of their accounts after they were forced to switch to a new provider.
Cheyanne Enciso
Tech companies treat child sexual abuse content with "wilful blindness" but the online safety watchdog will soon force them to face uncomfortable truths.
Kat Wong
CrowdStrike is back in operation as its customers wait for a more detailed explanation of what went wrong, with the company's CEO summoned to the US Congress.
Cybersecurity experts warn malicious actors are trying to exploit the global tech outage, which affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices.
Key services and sectors around the world appeared to have no buffer, when an internet outage left them almost unable to operate.
As the world reboots and transport, governments and businesses return to normal, experts take in what might have been the world's biggest IT failure.
A faulty update to widely used cybersecurity software has knocked airlines, media companies, banks and telecoms offline around the world.
Reuters bureaus
Local technology firms have told a Senate inquiry they support regulations on the use of AI but warn strict rules could count them out of the global race.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Laws to restrict the use of artificial intelligence technology will be considered at a national inquiry, amid calls for urgent action.
The EU has accused Elon Musk's X of using "dark patterns" to deceive users as its regulators take aim at the platform's blue ticks and ad transparency.
The humble floppy disk has finally been banished from Japanese government offices as the new digital minister works to wipe out the use of analogue tech.
Rocky Swift
Child safety advocates have called for greater online privacy protections after Human Rights Watch identified photos of young Australians in an AI dataset.
Artificial intelligence technology will create 200,000 jobs in Australia by the end of the decade, a report has found, amid calls for greater training.
The US government has banned the use of Kaspersky's software in the United States, but the Moscow-based firm denies it's a security threat.
Artificial intelligence is growing its female workforce but the number of women thins higher up the ladder, prompting calls for more equitable training.
Academics at six universities are teaming up to create a national body to investigate online misinformation, social media risks and missing regulations.
Social media fuels cyberbullying and mental health issues among young Australians and the opposition has vowed to address the 'scourge'.
Almost three in four workers in Australia's creative industries are calling on the government to restrict the use of AI, with many fearing for their jobs.
Some of Google's most promising artificial intelligence projects are happening in Australia, the firm's research boss says, and the results could change lives.
New Optus customers will have to fork out up to $13 extra for their monthly mobile plans but will get more data, with the telco blaming higher costs for the price rises.
EU ministers have given their final approval to the a major new laws regulating the use of artificial intelligence amid rising concerns about the technology.
Foo Yun Chee and Tassilo Hummel
Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI are among the companies that have committed to the safe development of AI during a global summit on the technology.
Joyce Lee
The chief executive of the nation's largest telco says her company needed to offer a simplified approach amid falling demand for some of its services.
Adrian Lowe