This week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) became the object of intense focus but it was for all the wrong reasons.

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Analytics and huge volumes of information have played a significant role in robot development.

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Facebook's battle with ad blockers intensifies after launching its ad-blocker bypass for the desktop site and Adblock Plus striking back.

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Pentagon research agency DARPA wants to develop a system that's capable of countering a swarm of attack drones.

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Samsung has unveiled its fourth-generation V-NAND technology and several SSDs made possible by the new tech.

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The union has said ABS staffers blame the Turnbull government for the Census crash after 'dilly-dallying' in appointing a chief statistician, changing ministers thrice, and cutting staff members.

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A coalition of business groups are concerned that China's proposed cybersecurity laws will squeeze foreign competition out, harming trade and potentially violating international standards in the process.

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The AU$3 billion to be sunk into its network betrays Telstra's previous underinvestment, according to telecommunications analysts.

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The ComCom is looking into whether the backhaul market is appropriately regulated and competitive despite new technologies and networks.

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Recent Kantar research suggests that Apple's smartphone share in China has further declined, with the company currently sitting behind Huawei and Xiaomi.

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The Taiwanese giant has continued its profit tumble this quarter, reporting an operating loss of NT$279 million.

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Following a ban earlier this year, Uber will soon be able to operate legally in Queensland, the sixth state or territory in Australia to legalise the ride-booking serivce.

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Scott Morrison has said the government will look thoroughly into the Census 2016 failure, and will pursue it to 'the nth degree'.

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Daydream Labs wants to nudge virtual reality players to behave better towards each other.

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But will the UK's new government even care what the dotcom crowd thinks, anyway?

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Researchers find flaws in the keyless entry system used in around 100 million vehicles from the Volkswagen Group.

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A single method of determining losses following a cyberattack needs to be introduced, according to the European Union Agency for Network and Information.

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Google has sought urgent approval from the FCC to begin testing wireless broadband equipment in 24 cities across the US.

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If you want your email to be opened by Gmail users, now would be the time to digitally sign your messages.

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South Australian Small Business Commissioner John Chapman believes the ACCC should consider fee negotiations when it determines whether to give some of Australia's banks authority to collectively negotiate with Apple.

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Off the back of its AU$5.8 billion annual profit, Telstra has announced it will be investing AU$3 billion into what it called next generation network leadership, digitisation, and customer experiences.

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Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has said he is satisfied that no personal information was exfiltrated from the Census systems during Tuesday night's shemozzle.

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Australia's incumbent telco has posted a 36.6 percent profit jump for the 2015-16 financial year, but CEO Andrew Penn is disappointed with the negative opinion mass-market customers held of Telstra's tumultuous 2016 performance.

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Singapore's telco giant has recorded a net profit of SG$944 million on operating revenue of SG$3.9 billion and EBITDA of SG$1.2 billion for the first quarter of the 2017 financial year.

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Optus continues to remain optimistic about the business transformation it is undertaking, despite seeing net operating revenue drop to AU$2 billion for the first quarter of the 2017 financial year.

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said he is angry with the failure of the Census 2016 site due to a "entirely predictable" denial of service attack.

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Google has been granted a patent for a mobile telepresence system powered by H-shaped drones.

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Seagate has taken the wraps off its whopping 60TB solid-state drive for the enterprise.

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New CryptFile2 variant sends hundreds of thousands of emails attempting tricks targets into clicking on malicious URLs

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Airline chiefs explain what was behind the technology failure that grounded more than 1,800 flights.

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London's police are being asked why they're still running tens of thousands of Windows XP desktops and why they're only planning to migrate to Windows 8.1.

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Australian Treasurer Scott Morrision has been labelled by Labor as the "bedwetter in chief" for failing to take responsibility for the Census.

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After making inroads in South Korea with its telecom equipment and smartphones, the rising Chinese powerhouse is expanding its reach to notebooks with the launch of its 2-in-1 MateBook.

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Starting this September, Google's Chrome will begin to block Flash in favour of HTML5 for behind the scenes analytics.

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Apple has hit back at some of Australia's big banks, explaining to the ACCC why it should not grant them the ability to collectively negotiate with the technology giant on accessing the NFC chip within iPhones .

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Australia's incumbent telco has denied it was to blame for a router failure in Tuesday night's Census.

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The ABS has said it was under denial of service attack throughout yesterday, before a hardware router failure sparked a series of events that resulted in the Census site being pulled down last night.

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It is not possible to anticipate the threats of the future as they are born out of new technologies, but John Suffolk, president, global cybersecurity and privacy officer for Huawei Technologies, says this is nothing new and it is going to be okay.

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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has reported the ongoing investment it makes in technology drove IT spend for FY16 to AU$1.5 billion.

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As widely expected, the Census website fell over last night -- but the ABS has said it was with a little help from external players.

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Security firm looks to offer protection from hackers to small and medium sized businesses

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Too Good to Go app will match food heading for disposal with people looking for a good meal at a discount price.

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Thousands of Amiga software titles from the 1980s and 1990s are now available to experience through a browser.

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Organisations are spending more on more on cybersecurity as they try to fight off hackers, cybercriminals, and insider threats.

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Perhaps Apple's iPhone 7 isn't just a smartphone, but part of an integrated system that is something else entirely? Meet iPhone 7 Pro, the VR machine.

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Systems are back online, but the airline still needs to 'reset' operations.

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Hiring, free trade agreements and GDPR are just some of the issues the UK tech sector is uncertain about following the vote to leave the European Union.

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IBM has teamed up with Local Motors for a new autonomous vehicle. Here's how it will handle difficult passengers - and why you won't be able to buy one.

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Under a new federal policy, US agencies will need to factor reuse into any new custom software project.

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John Lord, chairman of Huawei Australia, believes Australia will lose its competitive advantage if it does not embrace the technologies that are emerging from overseas.

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The Australian Securities Exchange has partnered with Tibco for its Enterprise Service Bus platform that will be used to help the ASX eventually develop a data strategy.

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Labor leader Bill Shorten has called for Australians to complete the Census while the Australian Privacy Commissioner continues to give the ABS its tick of approval.

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In an effort to stymie terrorism funding and financial crime, AUSTRAC has established a team to look into online platforms being used for money laundering.

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Reckon has reported it has delivered 6 percent growth in revenue to AU$57 million for the first half of the 2016 financial year.

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Wireless internet company, Uniti Wireless, has picked up a multi-million investment from the founders of Vocus Communications and Amcom, aiming to use the cash for national expansion.

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A growing number of Australians plan to boycott the census, despite a "hand on heart" promise their privacy won't be compromised.

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Supporters of open-source computing now have several new options for giving their backing to the environmentally-friendly EOMA68 PC project.

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Researchers have exposed the questionable practices of the pay-per-install industry behind the lucrative market for unwanted software.

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It's time to take a new approach when talking about tech to the business - here's how.

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Airline suffers "system outage nationwide" which has delayed flights awaiting departure.

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Strider hackers reference the all-seeing eye of Sauron in their 'nation-state level' malware, which has been used to steal files from organisations across the globe.

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Google is backing the new OpenYOLO initiative to allow all password managers gain the autofill features that its own Smart Lock password manager offers on Android.

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The Australian government has pledged AU$18 million over five years to businesses and researchers to spend on global-scale collaboration.

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A former NSW deputy privacy commissioner and a senator have added their names to the list of people refusing to complete the online Census due to privacy and security concerns.

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Rather than issuing debt, cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex will be docking its customers by a generalised loss percentage of 36 percent in the wake of its $65 million heist.

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Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has reported capitalised software reached AU$148.8 million, while IT expenses dropped to AU$69.7 million during the 2016 financial year.

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A few months into the role as Australia's first Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Cybersecurity and Alastair MacGibbon has his eyes set on working through the 33 initiatives of the Cyber Security Strategy.

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Telstra is considering axing another 204 jobs, with the majority to be offshored, according to a report from the union.

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Big data holds enormous promise that it can help global organizations of all sizes to move faster and make better decisions. But, making it work demands something more than just good algorithms.

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