From a cat living longer than a feline's average life span to puppies experiencing a food coma, this week's pet stories kept us on the edge of our seats. But the week wouldn't be complete without ...

An independent report released by Optus shines a light on a serious issue with our modern mobile-reliant communications systems. (Getty) Most alarmingly, the report shines a light on a serious issue ...

Australia’s communications regulator opened registrations for a new anti-scam scheme designed to regulate trusted brand names – such as “myGov” and “CBA” – that appear as SMS sender names, but has for ...

Technicians working on a firewall upgrade made at least ten mistakes, contributing to two deaths, according to a report on a September incident that saw Australian telco Optus unable to route calls to ...

OPTUS, Australia's second-largest telecoms services provider, said on Thursday that an independent review into its September outage found gaps in process, accountability, escalation, and information ...

An independent review of an outage of Optus’ emergency call network in September suggested shifting call centre operations outside of Australia contributed to delays in responding to failures in its ...

A damning independent review has found Optus lost effective control of its network operations after outsourcing critical work offshore, contributing to the fatal Triple Zero failure that left hundreds ...

This year saw some of our biggest brands in an Olympic-style sprint to the bottom of the reputation heap.