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As Telstra melts down, telco’s ‘$6.7million-a-year’ CEO Vicki Brady is on holidays overseas… so will she rush back to her lavish five-bedroom mansion with pool to handle the crisis?
Australia’s largest telecommunications company, Telstra, suffered a major nationwide outage on the morning of Wednesday 8 July 2026, leaving millions of customers unable to make calls, use mobile data or process electronic payments. The failure — attributed to a technical fault involving timers at the company’s Sydney and Melbourne data centres — also caused widespread…
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Mamamia breaks its silence as axed podcast host Claire Murphy promises to spill ‘tea’: The claim that made the company respond: INSIDE MAIL
Australian women’s media company Mamamia has issued a rare public statement after Claire Murphy, the former host of its podcast The Quicky, teased a forthcoming project promising to reveal inside “tea” about her old workplace. Murphy, who was made redundant in May after seven years, has framed the venture in the style of a dramatic…
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Crimson Desert Dev Working On Getting Switch 2 Version Up And Running
Pearl Abyss, the South Korean studio behind the open-world action-adventure Crimson Desert, is developing a Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game, with CEO Heo Jin-Young confirming in a recent corporate briefing that it has reached a stage where “basic gameplay is possible”. The update matters because it moves the prospect of a Switch 2…
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Company director stole £550,000 of her elderly father-in-law’s life savings to fund luxury Caribbean holidays, supplies for her horses and her daughter’s wedding
Company director Mary Jane Haigh, 63, has been jailed for six years after stealing more than £550,000 from her elderly and vulnerable father-in-law, David Skippen, whose life savings she was entrusted to manage while purportedly caring for him. The case highlights the abuse of trust involved in financial elder abuse, with Haigh draining Mr Skippen’s…
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Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
If you’re building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.
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Of course viewers are giving up on Netflix shows
Netflix, the world’s most popular paid streaming service, is struggling to retain viewers beyond the first season of its shows, and the company is reportedly investigating why subscribers are abandoning once-popular series in large numbers. The problem matters because sharp drop-offs — such as the anthology Beef losing 70 percent of its viewership on return,…
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OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
Joshua Achiam, OpenAI’s chief futurist, has told colleagues he will leave the company later this month after nearly nine years, according to a staff note obtained by WIRED. Achiam, a long-standing defender of OpenAI’s safety-focused mission, said his departure was not prompted by any specific reason but was something he had been considering for a…
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NewJeans Members and HYBE Face Lawsuit Claiming ‘ETA’ Stole Instrumentals From Earlier Track
A publishing company alleges the horns and drums on the hit 2023 song are “virtually identical” to parts of a nearly 20-year-old dance track.
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma points the finger at Phil Spencer’s strategy for yesterday’s sweeping layoffs: ‘We simply spread ourselves too thin’
Sharma didn’t mention Spencer by name, but said Xbox is struggling because it neglected its “core business.”
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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.