Technology

1355 Market Street, home to the headquarters of X, formerly Twitter, in San Francisco, on Aug. 13, 2024. Elon Musk is shuttering his social media company’s headquarters in downtown San Francisco and will move his operations to Texas.
Technology
The New York Times

San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as Elon Musk and X leave

San Francisco’s long relationship with X is nearly over — and city officials are far from heartbroken.

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Pavel Durov was charged with a wide range of crimes related to illicit activity on the app and barred from leaving the country.
Technology
The New York Times

How tech whizz went from Russia’s Zuckerberg to wanted man

Pavel Durov’s arrest has caused a firestorm, turning him into a folk hero among those concerned about free speech and government censorship.

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Overuse of online dating apps can be toxic.
Lifestyle
Antonia Lenon

‘Burnout’ a factor in brutal world of dating apps

‘Far from making dating easier, it’s turned our love lives into a brutal, exhausting slog’.

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Is Mark Zuckerberg and Meta on a collision course with the open-source community over his company’s new AI models?
Business
The Economist

Why Meta’s accused of ‘bullying’ the open-source community

Mark Zuckerberg’s tech giant is banking on its models setting the standard for open-source artificial intelligence.

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Telegram owner and Russian billionaire Pavel Durov has been arrested.
World
Barbara Surk and Angela Charlton

French authorities’ charges against Telegram CEO revealed

The charges come days after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest outside Paris on Saturday.

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Telegram owner and Russian billionaire Pavel Durov has been arrested.
World
Chris Brooke

Billionaire Telegram owner Pavel Durov arrested in Paris

The Russian-born technology mogul, who lives in Dubai, reportedly stands accused of failing to take action to curb drug trafficking, cyber-bullying, fraud, organised crime and terrorism. 

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Employees work on the production line of electric vehicles at Xiaomi's Electric Vehicle Factory in Beijing.
Business
The Economist

Apple can’t do cars. Meet the Chinese tech giants that can

Baidu, Huawei and Xiaomi have built thriving auto businesses.

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In a special series first published last week, this masthead reported that graphic content normally banned by the Australian Film Classification Board was being boosted by Instagram’s algorithm to users — including young children.
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Technology
Caleb Runciman

Meta shuts down violent accounts following investigation

Instagram’s parent company Meta has shut down half a dozen Instagram accounts filled with horrific content belonging to a 20-year-old American following an investigation by The Nightly.

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Poor auto-detection and algorithms’ inability to effectively differentiate real and fake violence was keeping harmful content on platforms, including Meta’s Instagram, according to Curtin University Professor of Internet Studies Tama Leaver.
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Technology
Caleb Runciman

Why kids can’t escape the grim cycle of online violence

For the Instagram generation, the brutal truth is that violent content and horrific footage they’re not ready to cope with is virtually inescapable.

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Declaring he would impose a ban on young users within his first 100 days of government, Mr Dutton said that as a father and former police officer he felt compelled to protect children from the “industrial scale” evil found online.
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Technology
Katina Curtis

Why a social media ban isn’t enough to protect children

Banning children from social media is part of the answer to creating safer online spaces but much more is needed to fix the problems, a Facebook employee turned whistleblower and safety campaigner says.

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Shocking images of people being murdered are proliferating on social media.
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Technology
Caleb Runciman

Tidal wave of online gore and its grim effect on kids’ minds

Horrific unfiltered footage of people being murdered is slipping into the feeds of anyone with a smartphone, including children who are potentially being normalised to violent content they should never see.

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Disney+ terms and conditions are being used to throw out an unlawful death claim.
World
Max Corstorphan

How Disney+ subscription may lead to court axing death case

In what’s been described as an ‘absurd’ move, Disney’s lawyers are trying to have an unlawful death case thrown out of court because the husband of the victim was a Disney+ subscriber.

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NASA has held a press conference to update the world on two astronauts stranded in space, saying ‘we don’t move very fast’.
World
Max Corstorphan

‘Don’t move very fast’: Bad news for stranded astronauts

NASA has held a press conference to update the world on two astronauts stranded in space, saying ‘we don’t move very fast’.

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Audience members gather at Made By Google for new product announcements at Google on Tuesday.
Society
CNBC

Google makes a huge announcement on AI

Google has made major announcements on it’s AI assistant and the company's product offerings at an event in California.

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Gmail and Google Drive have been affected by tech issues globally, Google said.
Australia
Hayley Taylor

Gmail and Google Drive hit by worldwide outages

‘Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.’

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