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How one network outage caused national chaos

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How one network outage caused national chaos

The nationwide Optus outage impacted millions of Australian people, leaving them without phone service for hours, so how did this happen? 

Also, Meta is attempting to ban political ads using artificial intelligence and why has the king of Cyrpto been sent to prison. 

Guests: 

Jessica Sier, tech reporter at the Australian Financial Review. 

Alex McCauley, found of the Tech Council. 

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