Company workers aren’t the only ones facing an AI tidal wave, with one state announcing a new $28m drive to embed the tech revolution into its public sector.
Duncan Evans
The NBN is upgrading its internet speeds to propel Australia into a new age of streaming and there are some key things to do right now to prepare.
A consumer advocate has revealed what he says is a “Telstra tax” Aussies are paying for the telco’s premium service, a claim rejected by the country’s biggest provider.
Blair Jackson
An Aussie cop’s extraordinary spray towards two young men pulled over for speeding – where he blasts one as an “absolute goose” and urges him to “grow some brains” – has been captured on video.
Hannah Wilcox
A massive data bungle has resulted in the biometric data of students being collected by Microsoft Teams “for weeks” before the Education Department was alerted.
Summer Liu
Outspoken billionaire Elon Musk's X Corp is mounting a Federal Court challenge against Australia's eSafety Commissioner.
Farid Farid
One state is set to bring in new laws to combat a “scourge” of cybercrime after Aussies lost more than $2bn last year alone.
Nathan Schmidt
Phone and internet users will be given more details when their services drop out under rules imposed on telecommunication providers.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Three public phones that have supported Australians in emergencies are being nominated to be made national landmarks.
Alex Mitchell
A Telstra outage that left customers struggling to access their emails for more than 12 hours has now been resolved.
Anthony Albanese has urged schools to use the Netflix show Adolescence as a tool to educate young Australians on the dangers of social media.
Jessica Wang
Opposition politicians, academics and the media council have voiced alarm over the Papua New Guinea government's move to block Facebook.
Ben McKay
Horrifying cases have shown how sexual offenders are using social media and dating apps to target women and children in Australia.
Emma Kirk
Personal information has been stolen from a major Australian university again and posted on the dark web.
From the Holocaust to 9/11, AI is being used to redraft history in order to influence our present and future, an Australian expert has warned.
Blair Wise
There will be sweeping new changes coming for teenage social media users as Meta continues to crack down on the content teens see every day.
Alexandra Feiam
The federal government has been grilled over fears tech billionaire Elon Musk might “agitate for far-right politics in Australia” during the election.
The figures come as the NBN revealed the average Australian household now uses 10 times the data it did in 2015.
Dylan Caporn
Aussies will need to wait about a week before finding out what data was viewed by a hacker following a major breach of a state government website.
Joanne Williamson, Clareese Packer
Elon Musk’s X has challenged an Australian court’s judgment that found it was required to comply with reporting obligations over child exploitation material.
Liam Beatty
Labor released a social media T-shirt meme to pump its Medicare credentials, only to quickly take it down after realising the meme’s ugly history.
US tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and X are targeting Australia’s online laws, but Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he will stand up for Aussie parents.
The US influencer who fled Australia after snatching a baby wombat from its mother has opened up about the furore, hitting back at what she calls “hypocrisy”.
