The Optus Hack will take the number 1 medal for Australia’s worst information leaks. 11.2m customers have had some or all of the following data captured by shady internet characters: Full name Date of birth Gender Mobile Number Address Drivers License number Passport number This is as serious as it gets, so do not wait for Optus or the Government to step in and help. Gear up and play defence. Here’s what you should do next (and this is exactly what I’m telling my mum to do…):...

I was watching “The half of it” on Netflix over the weekend (a lighthearted comedy-drama written by an ex-Microsoft software engineer-turned-writer, Alice Wu) and a scene in the movie just happened to succinctly summarize a common problem I see almost daily at work. The smart loner Ellie, is trying to coach popular-jock Paul, on the art of conversation so that Paul can charm his high school love interest: In a subsequent ping-pong scene, Ellie says to Paul “match energy, match strokes, and just say one thing”, which is an apt sporting metaphor for the basic skill of communicating with another....