Commonwealth Bank’s Start Smart program is undertaking a two-month trial to determine whether virtual reality technology combined with a storybook in a student’s home can reinforce financial education lessons learned at school.

Researchers at Forcepoint Security Labs have found that nearly 75,000 users put themselves at risk in a test case they probed using what is called abandonware - in this case, an abandoned and somewhat obscure plugin for a software package that is no longer in development.

Microsoft has issued invitations to a launch in New York. Inevitably this sets the gossip mongers “mongering”. Here is what iTWire has found.

As more and more reports keep coming in of exploding Samsung Galaxy Note7s, it is clear that even the replacement phones have not fixed the issue which has dogged this so-called flagship device. It’s time for Samsung to cut its losses and take the troublesome device off the market, says Sam Varghese.

Security fatigue is causing computer users to indulge in risky behaviour, both in computing and their personal lives, a study by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology claims.

Peak union body, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), wants political parties to get behind its push for a Buy Australian Act to be legislated, requiring all major government projects and services to use locally manufactured goods. With regard to technology, this has been tried before.

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