Optus has become the second telco to offer compensation to its customers on certain NBN plans, with about 8700 users to be offered "remedies" for being misled about the maximum speeds they could achieve.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark has hit out at a major competitor over suggestions that 5G mobile services in the country should be rolled out by a monopoly network rather than competing companies.

Other smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S8 may have introduced facial recognition well before Apple, but Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller says all such systems on the market from competitors "stink".

Popular software packages like Skype and VLC media player (32-bit) for Windows are being used to spread surveillance software which has been christened StrongPity2 by researchers from Slovakian security firm ESET.

Malicious attackers are targeting bitcoin investors through an announcement about a bogus trading bot named GunBot which arrives in a spam email.

The competition watchdog the ACCC has issued a warning that scammers could prey on the unsuspecting with pre-Xmas scams which it says could involve con tricks perpetrated on online shoppers.

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