Apple will open its first global flagship store in the southern hemisphere at Melbourne's Federation Square in 2020.

The federal government has announced a programme of work to implement a new Universal Service Guarantee, which it says will ensure all Australians have access to voice and broadband services, regardless of where they live. Optus and ACCAN have welcomed the move.

TPG has become the third ISP to agree to pay compensation to customers who have been misled about the speeds offered on certain NBN plans. In TPG's case, the number who will be compensated is about 8000.

The personal information of 123 million American households collected by the California data analytics firm Alteryx has been found in an unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket on the Web.

France's privacy watchdog has indicated that it may levy fines on messaging app WhatsApp if the lcompany does not follow an order to stop sharing user data with its parent company Facebook.

Android malware is common these days but security vendor Kaspersky Lab says it has encountered one which stands out for the range of activities it can carry out once it has infected a device: mining digital currencies, annoying users with constant ads, launching DDoS attacks from the affected device and more.

The US has blamed North Korea for the WannaCry ransomware attack in May, calling it reckless and one that caused "havoc and destruction" by locking up more than 300,000 Windows computers in 150 countries.

Despite all the hiccups, both private and public, which it has had this year, NBN Co seems to have performed well when it comes to making rental properties NBN-ready, it is claimed.

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