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Insurance and banking business units down by over a third while New Zealand remained steady.

New Zealand Fibre Max plans seeing 10% drop in speeds

South Island continues to get the raw end of the deal, with almost twice the drop in speeds to those seen in the North Island.

Modernisation and upping cyber compliance on the agenda for Geoscience Australia

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The government agency plans to make security upgrades that are in line with the Essential Eight and keep digital transformation a priority.

ASIC takes former ANZ-owned RI Advice to court over inadequate cybersecurity

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Previously owned by ANZ Bank, RI Advice Group has been hauled to court by the financial services watchdog over failure to have adequate cybersecurity systems in place.

University of Utah pays $457,000 to ransomware gang

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University officials restored from backups, but they had to pay the ransomware gang to prevent them from leaking student data.

Microsoft brings Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 to Windows 10 1903 and 1909

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Microsoft is easing the requirement for WSL2. Instead of only working on Windows 10 2004 or higher, WSL also is now available for Windows 10 1903 and 1909 users.

Instacart discloses security incident caused by two contractors

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Instacart says two employees at a third-party support vendor accessed “more shopper profiles than was necessary.”

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Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive

Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living [...]

Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M

Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a broader market for space, defense and security, after raising ¥2.6 billion ($16 [...]

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction. [...]

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia. [...]

How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours

Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia and others. Without even trying. [...]

HoverAir’s transforming modular drone has already been halted in the US

I am so sorry, fellow US gadget fans: the FCC's drone ban appears to have struck again. The HoverAir Versa - a baby steadycam with snap-on propeller wings that transform [...]

TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit

The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2024 over allegedly violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act [...]

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post [...]

Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri

Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include "largely shutting down" a Vision Pro gaming team and "reducing the [...]

$100 Best Buy gift cards will be $60 at stores Saturday

The best gift card deal we’ve spotted this year is happening Saturday, August 22nd, at Best Buy stores for one day only. In celebration of the retailer’s 60th anniversary, you [...]

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Hangar 51 supports startups taking off in travel tech

Google Cloud services outage hits Gmail users across Europe

First computers that led to a career in IT

COVID-19 pushed Suncorp to accelerate digital as ongoing business profit drops

New Zealand Fibre Max plans seeing 10% drop in speeds

Modernisation and upping cyber compliance on the agenda for Geoscience Australia

ASIC takes former ANZ-owned RI Advice to court over inadequate cybersecurity

University of Utah pays $457,000 to ransomware gang

Microsoft brings Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 to Windows 10 1903 and 1909

Instacart discloses security incident caused by two contractors