Aussie Tech Heads

Aussie Tech Heads - Episode 782

NSW parliament has passed mandatory data breach notification rules.

Mobile Black Spot Program celltower sharing. 

Linux Proton Next is an update between Experimental and Stable.   

Weekly wrap up of tech news and views, and maybe a tangent or two from the longest running Tech News podcast in Australia.

Aussie Tech Heads - Episode 781

Dropbox hack.

Australian RSPs need to advertise upload speeds.

Microsoft is releasing DirectStorage 1.1.

Linux kernel and x-files.

QLD drivers licenses.

Weird Al Yankovic movie.

Weekly wrap up of tech news and views, and maybe a tangent or two from the longest running Tech News podcast in Australia.

Aussie Tech Heads - Episode 780

The government is preparing new data breach notification rules in the wake of the Optus hack.

Google Fiber achieved a 20.2Gbps download speed in a field test in Kansas City.

Google is making it easier to find search results from Reddit and other forum sites.

What Is GrapheneOS, and How Does It Make Android More Private?

Weekly wrap up of tech news and views, and maybe a tangent or two from the longest running Tech News podcast in Australia.

NBN Co increasing support for disadvantaged urban families.

Zoom's app is now known as Zoom Team Chat.

The Sims 4 is going free-to-play starting next month.

Meta Quest Pro VR headset found in hotel room.

Twitter really wants Elon Musk to buy them.

Weekly wrap up of tech news and views, and maybe a tangent or two from the longest running Tech News podcast in Australia.

Plex users may want to change their passwords as soon as they're able.

Telstra is making wi-fi free at 3000 payphones from today

User numbers on the once-default 100Mbps NBN tier that came with an (up to) 40Mbps uplink fell

Weekly wrap up of tech news and views, and maybe a tangent or two from the longest running Tech News podcast in Australia.

Aussie Tech Heads - Episode  777  NBN Co has laid out a fresh proposal to scrap separate bandwidth charges and introduce flat-rate pricing.  Security researcher Sick Codes worked with Doom modder Skelegant to get the game running on a John Deere tractor display.  It turns out a Janet Jackson song had the power to crash some laptops back during the Windows XP era.   Weekly wrap up of tech news and views, and maybe a tangent or two from the longest running Tech News podcast in Australia.

The NSW government is planning to trial full-sized driverless commuter buses on the state’s roads

Microsoft has published a knowledge base article acknowledging a problem with encryption acceleration in the newest versions of Windows that could result in data corruption.

Google is kicking off a new publicity campaign today to pressure Apple into adopting RCS, the cross-platform messaging protocol that's meant to be a successor to the ageing SMS and MMS standards.

Windows 11 God Mode folder, users should name it by GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and then click the 'Enter' button.

Aussie Broadband says its fibre rollout to NBN points of interconnect is 90 percent complete.

Telstra has shed light on service quality problems with the NBN, where retailers are given less than an hours' notice of "planned" works.

System76 quietly released their latest Pop!_OS Linux 22.04 distribution based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as a tech preview for Raspberry Pi 4.

Aussie Tech Heads - Episode 774

Westpac has unveiled plans to roll out technology to let small businesses accept payments from customers via compatible Android mobile devices.

Mastercard has been accredited as an identity exchange under Australia’s Trusted Digital Identity Framework (TDIF).

Linux creator Linus Torvalds said that while he won't make any promises,  he'd like to see Rust merging into the Linux kernel with the next  release.

Aussie Tech Heads - Episode 773 

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