Technology

SpaceX has launched its eleventh Starship rocket in a mission to test its reusable design for lofting satellites and taking people to the moon and Mars.

Disturbing new claims reveal Australians who work from home have become the latest target for Chinese state-backed hackers.

Social media platforms have been warned to prepare for Australia’s new ban on under-16s, with fines of up to $50 million for companies that fail to comply.

Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting the health sector with authorities warning patient safety is being put in danger as ransomware attacks involving stolen medical records double in the past year.

A Perth tech founder has reportedly left his own artificial intelligence company to join Mark Zuckerburg’s Meta. 

Humans are laden with conscious and unconscious biases. Could artificial intelligence deliver a fairer justice system?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The tech could represent the end of visual fact — the idea that video could serve as an objective record of reality.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: As users progress through ‘levels’ of conversation, they unlock more raunchy content, like the ability to strip the chatbot down to lacy lingerie.

The University of Melbourne's Richard Robson is one of three winners for a discovery likened to a Harry Potter enchanted handbag.

The Communications Department says it was not made aware of last month’s deadly Triple-0 outage for more than a day because Optus sent a crucial email to the wrong address. 

Communications Minister Anika Wells has refused to answer a simple question about the Optus outage that is linked to the death of three Australians, instead announcing new laws to keep big telcos accountable.

The US Government shutdown is helping propel digital currency Bitcoin towards prices that would have sounded implausible a few years ago.

Organised crime gangs are flooding university students' inboxes with blackmail demands, threatening to expose compromising footage unless victims pay up in bitcoin.

Consulting firm Deloitte charged the Federal Government $440,000 for a report with made-up citations, fabricated quotations and advice inconsistent with the underlying research.

It comes as the company behind ChatGPT also reached the same valuation.