Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says he wants the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security to deal with the government's encryption bill "as quickly as possible", and accused Labor Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus of delaying things.

You have to feel for Apple CEO Tim Cook. The poor guy has to report his company’s financial performance to regulators, investors and the market every 90 days. This will not continue for much longer because it is inevitable that Apple will go private.

Amazon has suffered a data breach ahead of the Black Friday shopping bonanza, which the company is claiming what not a breach, but the company is not revealing any details about the how and why of the breach.

If human resources outfit PageUp People's chief executive and co-founder Karen Cariss is to be believed, then whoever breached the company's networks and encountered a very tasty mass of data left it completely untouched. If only all hackers were as benevolent!

Singtel Optus has released the Razer Phone 2, a leading brand for gamers, through its stores and online from Wednesday.

The GSM Association, the lobby group for mobile carriers worldwide, has launched a new industry-wide initiative – The Cloud AR/VR Forum – focussing on the development of cloud virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology.

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