Technology

The developers of Fortnite sued Apple and Google for anti-competitive conduct.

Apple, Google guilty in Fortnite fight worth millions

Apple and Google could face a hefty bill after they were sued by the developer of online game Fortnite and found to have engaged in anti-competitive conduct.

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Overreliance on foreign AI models poses real risks to Australia’s defence, intelligence and infrastructure, according to experts in the field.

‘Eaten alive’: AI’s risks to Aussie defence, infrastructure

Digital infrastructure is currently Australia’s defence blindspot, according to a former senior army officer turned academic. There’s only one way to fix it.

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Don’t fall for AI’s FOMO campaign.

Albo must stare down Big Tech’s vested interests

CAMERON MILNER: AI tech bros are attempting a brazen case of daylight robbery across oceans, but Australia must turn its head, see past FOMO and defend intellectual property rights.

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ChatGPT-5 has seen ‘huge improvement’.

‘Huge improvement’: AI evolves with release of ChatGPT-5

As Artificial Intelligence continues to develop at a rapid pace, OpenAI has released a ‘significant’ upgrade with the newest GPT-5 model. 

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Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of Atlassian.

Atlassian chief’s upbeat view on AI ‘at odds’ with market

Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes says he is determined to stick around at the software giant while sharing an upbeat view of artificial intelligence, which one analyst said was at odds with the market.

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There’s been a mixed response to the roll-out of Instagram Maps this week.

Instagram Map lets friends, and possibly exes, track you

A guide to how Instagram is now sharing your location and how to stop it.

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AI is a risk to creatives now, not 30 years down the track.

AI risks to creatives now, not 30 years down the track

Anthony Albanese has dismissed calls to water down copyright laws to benefit artificial intelligence as a key government adviser in the field calls for urgent regulation to deal with problems already arising.

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Under-16s social media ban, It’t not perfect but it’s a start.

Imperfect but vital: Under-16s social media crackdown

MARK RILEY: It’s clunky, flawed and late. But this law might be the best chance we have to protect kids before the next algorithm finds them.

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Art is more than fuel for big tech’s AI plagiarism machines.

Art is more than fuel for big tech’s AI plagiarism machines

KATE EMERY: How dare the Productivity Commission float reducing the value of Australia’s creative industries to power big tech’s multi-billion-dollar plagiarism machines.

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Instagram has rolled out new features on their app

Instagram launches huge updates to the app

Almost 15 years after launching, social media giant Instagram has taken pages out of other app’s books and added three new features to their app. 

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UK lawmaker Mark Sewards and his artificial intelligence prototype.

Fake politician, real outrage: Meet the MP with an AI clone

British lawmaker Mark Sewards released an artificial intelligence prototype of himself to help deal with a backlog of queries from constituents. Some weren’t impressed.

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primary education, friendship, childhood, technology and people concept - group of happy elementary school students with smartphones and backpacks sitting on bench outdoors

Dark truth of how Aussie kids are using AI revealed

New research has revealed that a worrying amount of Australian children are turning to AI for emotional support.

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The Productivity Commission claims artificial intelligence could mean a $116b boon to the Australian economy.

‘Painful transitions, new opportunities’ lay in AI work boom

The findings were contained in a Productivity Commission research paper, which also found that new technology could inject $116 billion into the economy. 

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Andrew Tulloch, left, and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan.

Why Aussie tech ‘genius’ rejected $1.5 billion Meta deal

The offer also reportedly included ‘top bonuses’ and ‘extraordinary stock performance’.

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The everyday life inside Russia’s notorious ransomware gang shared a lot of similarities with regular office jobs.

The mundane office life inside a ransomware criminal gang

From a micro-managing CEO to a powerful HR department, the world’s most notorious ransomware gang operated like a regular software business.

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