Google has accused Microsoft of making online life riskier for those who use Windows 7 and Windows 8, compared to those who use Windows 10, as the latest bugs are not being fixed in the older versions.

The biggest Web comment hosting service Disqus was breached in 2012 but the company only knew of it last week, according to an announcement made on Friday.

And market research and investment advisory firm Forrester Research has also suffered a data breach, with material available to its clients through Forrester.com being exposed by an attacker.

The South Australian Government and the State’s space and defence leaders are set to meet the heads of the Korean and Japan space agencies following the Federal Government’s announcement it will establish a national space agency.

The competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, wants an industry-led outcome on the variations to the Special Access Undertaking for the national broadband network rather than regulatory imposition.

Facebook's chief security office Alex Stamos has taken to the digital airwaves (read Twitter) to try and counter the assumption that the social media giant is sitting on its hands when it comes to preventing the spread of fake news on its channels.

A third of the respondents to the first annual self-driving vehicle survey undertaken in Victoria say they would like to have a hands-free driving option in their next car.

Mining giant Rio Tinto has completed the first fully autonomous rail journey at its iron ore works in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

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