I had a OnePlus 7T Pro I imported from Europe. Fantastic phone, probably the best I’ve ever owned. Ever since they got Oppo-ified it’s been very sad.
Unfortunately at least I just moved to AGL but the penalties should be far more severe as this has been happening for too much.
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Firefox’s free built-in VPN usually gives eligible users 50 GB of free bandwidth each month. From now through Aug. 31, we’re making that unlimited, so you have more room to browse privately while you travel, work from public Wi-Fi or connect from somewhere new. Not only will users get unlimited bandwidth, but we’re also unlocking access to 28 country locations to browse from during this period. The VPN returns to its standard 50 GB monthly limit and a standard location set on Sept. 1.
The full set of countries available during this summer period include: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Norway, South Africa, United Kingdom and United States.
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ACMA takes Optus Mobile to court over September 2025 Triple Zero outage
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has today commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against Optus Mobile Pty Limited (Optus Mobile) in relation to the 18 September 2025 outage, which affected some people’s ability to connect to the emergency call service.
The ACMA alleges that during the outage, Optus Mobile breached two separate legal obligations on 1,005 occasions in that it failed to:
- give end-users who made emergency calls using an emergency telephone service supplied by Optus Mobile access to the emergency call service, and
- ensure that those emergency calls were carried to the relevant termination point.
ACMA Chair Nerida O’Loughlin said that the provision of access to the emergency call service is essential to protecting the Australian public.
“Australians rightly expect that when they call Triple Zero, their call will connect. The circumstances of this outage meant that did not reliably occur, leaving people unable to connect to potentially life-saving services.
“Giving access to the emergency call service is not optional, it is a fundamental legal obligation and the most important public safety responsibility telecommunications providers have,” Ms O’Loughlin said.
The proceedings follow earlier enforcement action taken by the ACMA arising from the Optus November 2023 outage. Singtel Optus subsidiaries, including Optus Mobile, paid more than $12 million in infringement notice penalties imposed by the ACMA for breaches relating to emergency calls. These included failures to give access to the emergency call service during that outage.
“The recurrence of a major network outage affecting emergency calls so soon after the November 2023 outage is a significant concern and one of the reasons the ACMA has decided to take this matter to court.
“The ACMA will not hesitate to take strong enforcement action where alleged telco failures have jeopardised public access to the critical emergency call service,” Ms O’Loughlin said.
The ACMA is seeking the following from the court:
- declarations that Optus Mobile contravened the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999 on 1,005 occasions by failing to comply with obligations under sections 15 and 19 of the Telecommunications (Emergency Call Service) Determination 2019, and
- an order that Optus Mobile pay pecuniary penalties to the Commonwealth for these contraventions.
The maximum penalty available to the court is $250,000 per contravention.
As this matter is now before the court, the ACMA will not be making any further comments at this time.
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Camera glasses have been around for ages. Only now they look sort of…regular?
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Green tech company Envision Group announced the completion of its largest AI data center on Thursday in Ulaanqab, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, setting what they claim to be global benchmarks for computing density and green-power integration in AI infrastructure.
According to a Shanghai Securities News report, the data center draws on green energy to power its building area of 120,000 square meters, approximately the size of 14 standard soccer fields. One million microchips work together to create a one-million-petaflop computing capacity, which is equivalent to roughly 2 million laptops.
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Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has asked Australia’s Privacy Commissioner to prioritise a review of wearable camera glasses and determine whether stronger safeguards are needed.
Rowland said the affordability of the glasses raises serious concerns, particularly for women and children.
“The increasing availability of these devices could have significant implications, particularly for women and children who could be disproportionately affected by inappropriate recording, harassment, surveillance, or other harmful conduct enabled by this technology,” she wrote to the commissioner.