The poor Telstra results, in which the company profit barely matched what it pays to shareholders in dividends has resulted in what many had flagged as inevitable - an announcement that the big telco will savagely slash the 2018 dividend by a whopping 30%. Naturally TLS shares tanked.

Another episode of season seven of the popular Game of Thrones TV series has leaked on the Web, with a division of HBO, the owner, being responsible for the initial leak.

A security researcher who claims to have managed to bypass two-factor authentication on the website of the US-based digital asset exchange Poloniex says he sold the vulnerability information after waiting for more than 60 days for the company to react after being informed.

Researchers at the University of Sydney have come up with a solution to one of the main hurdles preventing zinc-air batteries from being used in electronic devices instead of lithium-ion batteries.

Security firm Proofpoint says it has found evidence that a number of extensions for Google's Chrome browser were hijacked and used to divert traffic and substitute advertisements on victims' browsers. The targets appear to have been Windows users.

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