Technology

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.

‘I found Ollie. So, I go to bed with that vision in my head every single night. Every night.’

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The innocent-looking bear talked about knives, sexual topics and even referred to a fetish app.

When, how, why and to whom the restrictions apply.

Access to three of the world's most widely used ‘nudifying’ deepfake services has been blocked after they were linked to child sex abuse material in students.

A High Court challenge has been launched against Australia’s under-16 social media ban just a fortnight before it’s due to come into effect on December 10.

The Shenzhou-22 spacecraft has been launched to help China bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged vessel left them temporarily stranded.