Friday, June 18, 2021 We’re on holiday next week so we’ll be back with more Byteside Daily on June 29. Big outage another CDN error: Yesterday afternoon, a major outage occurred that impacted a wide range of Australian institutions, including major banks and their mobile apps, Virgin Australia
Thursday, June 17, 2021 “No cops, please, it’s COVID”: This week, the Western Australian government has introduced legislation to limit the use of COVID check-in app data after the WA Police Force accessed the information in two investigations of serious crimes, which is allowed under the existing rules.
Games
Transforming a letter to a friend who passed away into a videogame? We profile Cécile Richard on their AGDA winning game and what drives their love for indie development.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 Power to enforce cybersecurity: The Australian Signals Directorate, our national spy agency, wants to see laws introduced to compel organisations to cooperate in the event of a hack or ransomware attack, after a recent incident saw a company refuse assistance and ultimately become reinfected within months
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 It’s virtual E3 season, with dozens of major games announcements over the weekend. Here’s just a few of that caught our eye. Starfield won’t PlayStation: Bethesda’s Starfield had its first game footage, though still incredibly vague apart from the obvious “you’ll