Technology

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.

The world’s first passenger aircraft without windows would cut down on fuel costs, making travel cheaper and better for the environment.

The latest layoffs come as Google accelerates job cuts to focus spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: While artificial intelligence chatbots promise detailed, personalised answers, they also offer validation on demand.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: An energetic mayor was sick of being surrounded by children addicted to their screens. He pushed for the government to step in.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: ‘Our aim was to depict a spectrum. You don’t have to end up being rail thin to qualify as having an eating disorder.’

The federal government has been urged to deploy independent experts to embattled telco Optus after a further emergency call outage on its network.

Australians have been promised that a social media ban for children will be frictionless come December 10 - but three months out questions remain on what will be included and how users will be affected.

The 28yo is worth an estimated $5.5 billion according to Forbes.

Coders need to start thinking like mechanical engineers.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The call carried a whiff of plausibility. Would a scammer have a supervisor?

Search engines like Google and Microsoft will have to ensure kids aren't exposed to harmful content like porn and violence, but enforcement concerns remain.