AT&T just put up a lengthy response to the FaceTime controversy it started when it announced that only users of its new, more expensive Mobile Share Plans may use Apple’s feature. In short, AT&T says it is not bound by FCC Net Neutrality laws on FaceTime because it is a pre-installed App and can be disabled to the carrier’s liking. If FaceTime was a downloadable app, AT&T would be forced by FCC Net Neutrality laws to allow it to work properly....

Notaa is launching this week in Australia and marketing itself as the first HomeKit installer in the country, specializing in installation and set up of products that use Apple’s Siri and iPhone-controlled home automation platform. We’ve seen a few homebuilders offering HomeKit products preinstalled or through upgrade packages, but this is the first company we’ve seen specifically specializing in HomeKit installations. The company has selected a number of HomeKit accessories that it will sell on its online store in addition to booking installation appointments....

Australia has one of the highest household debts in the world, estimated at a staggering 119.30% of the country’s GDP. Why is Australian household debt so high and what contributes the most to the rising levels of debt in the country? Let’s find out. 7 Shocking Facts and Stats on Household Debt in Australia The average Australian household owes an estimated $250,000. Nearly two-thirds of households in Australia are in debt....

It’s hard to believe that Avatar: The Last Airbender wrapped up over a decade ago. (Feel old, yet?) The Nickelodeon animated series grew a huge baseman of both young and older viewers during its three-year run and this popularity hasn’t waned one bit since it went off the air. In fact, as more time goes by, the more highly-regarded its legacy becomes, propelling it to the hallowed “modern classic” status few cartoons of its era have been able to achieve....

Apple device management vendor Addigy announced today it has received a strategic growth investment from PSG; a growth equity firm focused on enabling software and technology-enabled services companies to expand faster. Read on to learn more about Addigy and PSG’s announcement. In the release, Addigy noted that the use of Mac laptops had grown 63% over the past two years. Addigy believes corporate IT teams and MSPs face challenges managing and securing Apple devices....

Bel Powley stars in the trailer for Ashes in the Snow, a film adaptation of Ruta Sepetys’ novel Between Shades of Gray. Powley has been acting for more than a decade now, but it was her role in 2015’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl that really put her name on the map stateside. The film revolved around a teen artist growing up in San Francisco circa the 1970s, and landed Powley multiple film festival and critic circle award nominations for her performance....

The vulnerability was discovered by Apiiro’s Security Research team and explained in a blog post released alongside the patch. Argo CD is a popular open source Continuous Delivery platform, and the vulnerability – tagged as CVE-2022-24348 with a CVSS score of 7.7 – “allows malicious actors to load a Kubernetes Helm Chart YAML file to the vulnerability and ‘hop’ from their application ecosystem to other applications’ data outside of the user’s scope....

DailyMail reported today that Apple’s flagship retail store in France was the victim of an organized robbery. The crime apparently took place last night around 9 p.m. local time, three hours after the store closed for the day, with the suspects taking off with a reported £1 million in products. The masked, handgun-toting thieves were able to make off with the products before police arrived and have yet to be located....

After its third season was heavily criticized for being too dark, Arrow needed to redeem itself in its fourth season. Promised to be a lot brighter, season four also took a page out of The Flash’s book to make Oliver Queen’s (Stephen Amell) next threat not grounded. While the fastest man alive dealt with meta-humans, Arrow’s fourth year decided to introduce magic into the Arrowverse that was also busy setting up its newest spin-off, with Legends of Tomorrow....

[SPOILERS ahead for those not caught up on Arrow.] - Arrow hasn’t wasted much time changing things up in its fifth season. Four episodes in, and the show has already introduced more new characters faster than it has in any of its previous seasons. It’s not just the character lineup that’s changed this season though, as the dynamics and relationships between the show’s most important characters have been drastically shaken up, with Oliver reverting back to some of his more violent tendencies, and the introduction of villains like Tobias Church and Prometheus offering new dangers for Oliver and his crew to deal with....

Following Tuesday’s ruling from a federal judge, AT&T today has completed its acquisition of Time Warner. The deal, valued at $85 billion, was first announced in 2016 but faced a slew of regulatory delays due to antitrust concerns… Now that the deal has been completed, Time Warner’s handful of media properties are now under the ownership of AT&T. This includes HBO, CNN, Warner Bros., and more. Critics of the deal say owning this content gives AT&T an unfair advantage and the ability to promote its own content over that from its competitors....

Have you been spending inordinate amounts of time every day on video-sharing platforms, oftentimes completely losing track of time? Well, as it turns out, so has pretty much everyone, so don’t feel guilty. What makes the endless stream of entertaining clips available online so addictive, though? To try to paint a clear picture of this matter for you, we’ve rounded up the latest social video statistics from Australia and beyond....

James Cameron’s Avatar 2 has been pushed to December 2021, and the subsequent three sequels will be released every other year after. The long-awaited sequel was originally set to release in 2020. Released in 2009, Avatar was James Cameron’s epic return to directing feature films, over a decade after the massive success of Titanic. Cameron redirected his focus to underwater documentaries, like Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep, before making a record-breaking return to Hollywood, with Avatar becoming the first film to cross the $2 billion dollar mark (a feat Avengers: Endgame just achieved as well)....

Paul Blackthorne’s Quentin Lance will return from the dead in the Arrow series finale, which is currently filming. The eighth ongoing season is currently busy with bringing all the nostalgia as the Stephen Amell drama is approaching its end. While the season is mostly setting up Crisis on Infinite Earths, the first few episodes have featured some old favorites. The season opener had Oliver go to Earth-2, where he met several doppelganger versions of the people he has lost....

AT&T just released its quarterly numbers, and the company’s smartphone sales are still completely dominated by the iPhone. The company activated 3.7 million iPhones for the quarter, which represents 73 percent of all the smartphones sold (if each is taken as a new iPhone sold – there is likely a negligible difference). Additionally, 22 percent of the new iPhones sold were to new AT&T customers. The percentage would represent a slight downturn for AT&T over last quarter, where iPhone represented around 78 percent of smartphone activations with 4....

That there would be another season of Arrested Development on Netflix has long been a matter of “when” and not “if.” Most of the top people involved with the series have said so ever since season 4 premiered in 2013, with Brian Grazer revealing in an interview in April that a 17-episode season was on the way. Netflix’s content chief said in July that talks with the actors were underway....

While security researchers may now be able to earn up to $200k by reporting vulnerabilities to Apple, some may find it hard to resist a counter-offer of $500k by blackhat company Exodus Intelligence. While Exodus uses the innocuous-sounding label ‘Research Sponsorship Program,’ the firm makes its money by buying details of vulnerabilities and then making them available to those wishing to exploit them to hack devices … Exodus has a hitlist on its site showing that it will pay up to $500k for a zero-day vulnerability in iOS 9....

Update: While AT&T claims that the move was to safeguard its delicate infrastructure, two public advocacy groups (Freepress, Public Knowledge) are claiming the FCC is looming large. Seth submits a third postulate: The iPad Mini LTE launch later this month will present a chance for AT&T to grab new tablet customers and AT&T doesn’t want to lose out to competitors with friendlier offers. AT&T just announced you could now use FaceTime over cellular at no extra charge on the iPhone 5 and LTE iPad if it is on one of the network’s tiered data plans....

In conducting a national survey with 1,000 Australian workers on behalf of the Australian College of Applied Professions (ACAP), YouGov found that more than two thirds of workers in IT and computer services share the belief that their workplace has only introduced mental health and wellbeing initiatives to tick boxes, while day-to-day, their management shows little, if any, genuine concern or empathy for their wellbeing. Workers from the IT and computer services sectors represented the highest percentage to share this belief out of all the industries that were surveyed, the ACAP highlighted....

With Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the beloved Avatar The Last Airbender nearing its release, there is a fair amount of fan speculation on how good we can expect it to be. There is a relatively significant portion of fans that are of the stubborn opinion that the only thing Netflix should be doing with Avatar is putting the original show up to stream, rather than creating an entirely new live-action take on the 15-year old story....