Chris Duckett

Chris started his journalistic adventure in 2006 as the Editor of Builder AU after originally joining CBS as a programmer. After a Canadian sojourn, he returned in 2011 as the Editor of TechRepublic Australia, and subsequently served as the… Australian Editor of ZDNET.

Latest from Chris Duckett

Australia's got no upload: New Zealand picks up broadband Bledisloe crown

The Australian National Broadband Network is held back by artificial restraints and shocking upload speeds.

May 31, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Home Networking

Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme provider breached and treating its database as compromised

CTARS breached in mid-May and some of the most sensitive data imaginable is now up on the dark web.

May 31, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Security

Chromebooks will judge your USB-C cable and tell you to get a better one

Not all cables can carry the higher levels of data throughput -- and Chromebooks will tell users if the cable is not up to spec.

May 29, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Laptops

Optus to charge phone customers for Sport and bump price to AU$25 a month

The days of Optus customers having Sport bundled in are ending from August.

May 29, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Mobile Carriers

Broadcom makes a $61 billion play for VMware

Proposal would see Broadcom software group rebranded and shifted across to VMware.

May 26, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Virtualization

Telstra systems hit with audit after 67,000 customers left waiting for AU$11m in compensation

Telco reported the error to the regulator and made completed delayed payments to customers.

May 26, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Mobile Carriers

Zoom patches XMPP vulnerability chain that could lead to remote code execution

Google Project Zero researcher finds holes in the different ways XML was parsed on the Zoom client and server.

May 24, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Security

This era of big tech exceptionalism has got to end: Australian eSafety Commissioner

If the failures of this version of the internet are not learned, what will happen in a world of full sensory haptic suits, hyper-realistic experiences and teledildonics, asks Julie Inman Grant.

May 24, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Security

NBN could end up as a 100Mbps network and the ACCC thinks it might be too quick

Excess pricing will push retailers and thus users towards an access-only 100Mbps plan, which will hollow out the lower end of the market, the ACCC has said.

May 23, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Networking

Misinformation needs tackling and it would help if politicians stopped muddying the water

Politicians lie, everyone knows it, but when the concept in question is how democracy works, it's a serious matter.

May 22, 2022 by Chris Duckett in Security

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