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Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil says it may take one to two weeks to get all affected sectors "completely back online" following Friday's major IT outage, caused by a software update by global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

Five years after Starlink satellites started orbiting the Earth, Pacific Island countries are still weighing up its benefits despite calls to approve its services.

CrowdStrike became a household name on Friday for all the wrong reasons. Here's what we know about them.

One configuration file that updates multiple times a day was the cause behind a system crash that spread worldwide.

Australians are warned to stay vigilant as scammers and hackers try to capitalise on Friday's global tech crash.

Friday afternoon felt frighteningly similar to the 12-minute mark in a disaster movie. The difference is that in the movie, a villain is pulling the strings, but in reality, the culprit was far closer to home.

As industry experts continue to grapple with how a suspected defect in a computer update brought the world to a halt, Australians recount how the incident unfolded.

Seemingly all at once, millions of computers around the world became unusable and unable to be rebooted, showing what's known in the industry as the "Blue Screen of Death".

Australian government agencies, retailers, banks and airlines call an emergency meeting after a widespread IT outage grounds flights, interrupts payment systems leaves and media outlets unable to operate.

The global outage impacts a raft of Australian companies and government agencies. Here's the latest on the company reportedly responsible.

Here's what we know about the IT outage affecting users around Australia and the world. 

A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.

Experts say AI is the "largest gold rush in the history of capitalism", and that Australia is falling behind. But there's something else we're also trailing the pack on: the time it takes to manage privacy settings on websites.

It's so frustrating — your phone shows full bars of signal strength but it can't upload photos to Instagram or play Netflix or TikTok, let alone send emails or jump into a video conference. 

Australia's cyber intelligence agency says a Chinese government-backed hacking group known as APT 40 has been targeting government and private sector networks here and around the region. But what exactly is an "APT" and what do they do? 

Australia and key regional partners are accusing a Chinese spy agency of cyber espionage targeting government and business networks, in a large-scale operation that involves stealing hundreds of usernames and passwords.

A comprehensive audit will be conducted into all internet-facing technology used by Commonwealth agencies over rising concerns about foreign interference and influence threats.

The discovery of photos of Australian children in a gargantuan dataset being used to train leading AI models has given rise to a blame game and some divisive questions. 

During the COVID lockdowns, an online vigilantism soon became a defamation case in the NSW District Court. New legislation is aiming to avoid cases like this from happening again.

Mildura Digital Television, which is owned by SevenWest Media and WIN, has shut down the Channel 10 signal in the Sunraysia region because it did "not make commercial sense" to keep it going.

Brian Firebaugh thanks TikTok for giving him an income, a reality TV victory — and a son. He's one of 170 million American users who could lose access to the app within months.

The privacy of Australian children is being violated on a large scale, with their personal images — and sometimes their names and locations — being used to train the AI powering most of the world's image-generators.

Scammers posing as investment experts are grooming victims over the phone for weeks to gain their trust, before stealing their money.

Freeman's opposition comes after the CEO of his production company said she had been personally duped by the AI likeness. 

MrBeast is YouTube's most subscribed to content creator, with a staggering 290 million followers. So why are his videos so enjoyable for his legions of fans?