Stating the move "significantly expands driver earning potential" for Australian DiDi driver-partners as it delivers access to thousands of Chinese DiDi users in Australia, Chinese DiDi roaming has arrived.

American cryptography fellow Riana Pfefferkorn has questioned what end the Australian Government's encryption bill is trying to achieve, asking whether the ends of keeping crime under control could not be achieved by other means.

The US Justice Department is getting ready to prosecute WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange and is increasingly confident that it will be able to extradite him to the country so that he can be questioned in an American court.

The Australian Labor Party says Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has finally dumped his original plan to abolish the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman but the ALP reckons the 'mish-mash of recommendations' that Government has put forward will not help telco consumers.

The emergence of Vaporworms - a new breed of fileless malware with wormlike properties that allow it to self-propagate through vulnerable systems – global Internet disruption and rogue AI chatbots are among the security threats predicted to hit the world in 2019, according to a new report.

Global data centre provider Digital Realty continues to expand its investment in Australia with the opening of a new data centre at Erskine Park in Sydney and plans for further land acquisitions and a third facility, bringing the company’s claimed total investment in Australia to over $1 billion.

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