Technology

LORRAINE FINLAY: If you think handing over your identification is risk-free, think again.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Algorithmic media companies exploit the difference between our attentional instincts and aspirations. In so doing, they make it harder for us to become who we might wish to be.

Parents have been warned to strap in for ‘dopamine withdrawal’ tantrums triggered by Australia’s social media ban.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Australia is trying to keep children under 16 off the likes of TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law. The teenagers are sceptical.

TikTok has urged young users to download their content just days out from Australia’s social media ban coming into effect on December 10. 

Australians searching online for porn will soon see images appear differently as new eSafety rules come into force.

MARK RILEY: As new social media platforms pop up to side step the ban, we must keep sight of the reason this law was drafted.

JAMES BIRT: Australia’s new age-verification rules has caused understandable concern among families, but it will make kids online social world far more visible to adults who have never stepped inside it.

Within hours hundreds of people said they needed the device.

Anika Wells says Australia’s impending social media ban will help teenagers break away from the ‘dopamine drip’ binding under-16s to their phones.

Australians may be forced to provide official identification or banking details to big technology companies from next week.

Gemini 3 helped add $600 billion to Google’s value, but lacks common sense and struggles to explain complex technology.

On the same day a rider was killed after colliding with a garbage truck, a commuter has spoken out about vision he captured of two young men riding across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on the same e-bike.

Big Tech says Australia’s move is bold — but warns verification will be costly, complex and easy for teens to dodge.

Artificial intelligence will supercharge national security challenges already facing the country and ‘create new and unknown threats’, a Government plan warns.