The data breach at human resources outfit PageUp People was accomplished using advanced methods, resulting in the leaking of names, street addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers among others, the company has said in an update on Tuesday.

Optus has launched its "Optus Innovation Hub", a dedicated workspace within the Sydney Start Up Hub that will "see Optus SMB (small-to-medium business) collaborate with startups and SMBs to tackle current and future-state SMB issues".

A decision on a smartphone patent tussle between Huawei Technologies and Samsung Electronics that came from a Chinese court could well be accepted globally, despite the fact that Huawei went to both US and Chinese courts to seek a judgment.

Telstra's new 4GX-lite Mobile Satellite Small Cell offering has launched, offering "a new solution to help people living and working in some of Australia’s most remote places purchase their own coverage extension of the Telstra 4GX mobile service".

A new brain controlled film called "The MOMENT" has been launched, which picks up reactions from the viewer via an EEG headset and switches the storyline depending on your brain's EEG response.

The makers of dodgy apps that are uploaded to the Google Play Store are tricking users into downloading them by inflating the number of times that the app has been downloaded.

Apple has clamped down on apps that mine for cryptocurrencies, banning them from its App Store unless the mining is done in an external location like the cloud.

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