Autonomous Cars or No? Stunning Data on Autonomous Car Safety Benefits
Dr. Jonathan Slotkin, a neurosurgeon and co-founder of Scrub Capital, published an excellent piece in the NYT today about autonomous car safety. [DANIEL: Opening commentary…
Month: December 2025
CISOs are questioning what a crisis framework should look like
CISOs increasingly assume the next breach is coming. What concerns them most is whether their teams will understand the incident quickly enough to limit the…
Optus NBN services down in parts of Queensland
Optus is experiencing a lengthy outage of NBN services in Brisbane and other parts of southeast Queensland. “We are aware of an issue that is…
YouTube to logout its under-16 users next week
Google will automatically sign under 16s out of YouTube next week, which will disable their channels, subscriptions and playlists, as well as some parental controls.…
Ausgrid cuts Java vulnerabilities by 99% in major security uplift
Ausgrid has reduced its Java licensing exposure and strengthened its cybersecurity posture after migrating from Oracle Java to Azul Platform Core, cutting potential licensing costs…
Chrome 143 Released With Fix for 13 Vulnerabilities that Enables Arbitrary Code Execution
Google has officially promoted Chrome 143 to the Stable channel, rolling out version 143.0.7499.40 for Linux and 143.0.7499.40/41 for Windows and Mac. This significant update…
ACMA cancels phone numbers used in scams
The ACMA has cancelled 31 smartnumbers linked to scams being undertaken in Australia. Smartnumbers are distinct numbers that might have a pattern, like 1300 121…
ChatGPT Down – Users Report Outage Worldwide, Conversations Disappeared for Users
Millions of users worldwide faced a significant disruption to their workflows early Wednesday morning as ChatGPT suffered a major service outage. The incident, which began…
NBN Co curbed on FTTN overbuild cost claim to stop bill shock
NBN Co will be limited in how much the last part of its fibre-to-the-network overbuild can be used to increase broadband pricing from mid-2032. A…
UK prosecution of alleged Chinese spies was ‘shambolic’ says Parliamentary committee
The UK’s failed attempt to bring a prosecution against two alleged Chinese spies was “shambolic”, “beset by confusion” and suffered from “systemic failures”, a cross-party…
Russia Wants This Mega Missile to Intimidate the West, but It Keeps Crashing
A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country’s southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy…
Korea arrests suspects selling intimate videos from hacked IP cameras
The Korean National Police have arrested four individuals suspected of hacking over 120,000 IP cameras across the country and then selling stolen footage to a…