Apple unveiled four new iPhones, a new Apple Watch and new iPads on Tuesday during a virtual media event held from California. The new smartphones — the iPhone 13 mini, the iPhone 13, the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max — don’t include any groundbreaking design changes or features, at least compared to...
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How a fake social media network pushes pro-China propaganda
A sprawling network of more than 350 fake social media profiles is pushing pro-China narratives and attempting to discredit those seen as opponents of China’s government, according to a new study. The aim is to delegitimise the West and boost China’s influence and image overseas, the report by the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) suggests....
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Jack Dorsey’s Square in Australia’s biggest buyout
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s digital payments platform Square has agreed to take over the Australian ‘buy now, pay later’ firm Afterpay. The $29bn (A$39bn; £21bn) deal is to be Australia’s biggest-ever buyout. The offer is a more than 30% premium to Afterpay’s stock market closing price on Friday. The agreement will create an instalments payment...
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Older Kindles may lose internet connection, Amazon warns
Some older Kindle e-readers will soon no longer be able to connect to the internet to download new books, Amazon has said. First- and second-generation Kindles did not come with wi-fi functions included, using mobile internet only. But the slower technology used at the time – 2G and 3G internet – is being discontinued in...
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Australian photographers among the winners announced in Apple iPhone Photography Awards
Apple has announced the winners of its global 2021 iPhone Photography Awards on Friday and Australian photographers have taken out awards in multiple categories. Winners in the awards span across 17 countries, with the selected photos all taken on Apple’s popular iPhone series. The winners were the best shots from thousands of submitted photos from...
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More money chases Indian tech start-ups as investors shun Chinese names
At a time when investors are selling Chinese technology stocks, more money is chasing Indian start-ups. Shares of food delivery app Zomato soared as much as 82% in their debut Friday on the National Stock Exchange of India. The initial public offering was priced at 76 rupees per share, or a little more than $1...
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Zoom bets billions on home working continuing in Five9 deal
Video conferencing firm Zoom has struck a multibillion dollar deal to buy a cloud-based call centre operator in a bet on the future of hybrid working. The firm announced the $14.7bn (£10.7bn) acquisition of Five9 in a blog post on Sunday. Zoom boss Eric Yuan said the deal would allow its customers to “reimagine the...
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Australia joins international community in blaming China for large scale Microsoft hack
Australia has joined the United States and other allies in accusing China of engaging in “malicious cyber activities”, including a massive global hack on the Microsoft Exchange software that compromised tens of thousands of computers earlier this year. In a joint statement, the Ministers for Home Affairs Karen Andrews, Foreign Affairs Marise Payne and Defence...
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China accused of cyber-attack on Microsoft Exchange servers
The UK and EU have accused China of carrying out a major cyber-attack earlier this year. The attack targeted Microsoft Exchange servers, affecting over a quarter of a million servers around the world. The EU was the first to put out a statement saying the attack came from “the territory of China”, while the UK...
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Australia ‘soft target’ for cyber attacks
A policy vacuum has exposed Australian businesses and government departments to a tsunami of cyber crime. Ransomware attacks have caused global losses totalling more than $1.3 trillion and Australia is not immune. Logistics company Toll Holdings has twice been targeted while Nine Entertainment was brought to its knees by an attack that saw the company...