Technology

Australia is the world’s first democracy to ban its youth from popular social media services.

How Australia’s social media ban sparked worldwide trend

Big Tech says Australia’s move is bold — but warns verification will be costly, complex and easy for teens to dodge.

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Industry and Innovation Minister Tim Ayres said the plan ‘is about making sure technology serves Australians, not the other way around’.

Fears AI will amplify threats to country’s national security

Artificial intelligence will supercharge national security challenges already facing the country and ‘create new and unknown threats’, a Government plan warns.

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Emma Mason and Mia Bannister each have a necklace containing a small amount of their children’s ashes.

Two mothers unite in grief and anger over losing children to online bullying

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

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‘Kumma’ an AI bear made by FoloToy.

Huge concern after AI toy bear gives sex advice

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

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Nudifying deepfake services have been banned.

'Nudifying' AI deepfake tools used by students blocked

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.

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Minister for Communications, Anika Wells  said she ‘won’t be intimidated’.

Australia’s social media ban hit with High Court challenge

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.

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A new spacecraft is en route to China's space station after a vessel there was damaged.

China launches space station rescue mission

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

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THE ECONOMIST: The future of driverless taxis is Waymo complicated than it looks.

Who will win the trillion-dollar robotaxi race?

THE ECONOMIST: The future of driverless taxis is Waymo complicated than it looks.

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Woolworths may be sitting on a $3 billion AI gold mine.

Why Woolworths may be sitting on a $3 billion gold mine

The food giant’s little-known tech consultancy Quantium is thriving as corporate Australia seeks help to understand artificial intelligence

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AI will take over 37 occupations that require little judgment, empathy or interpersonal skills, a top economics firm predicts.

The jobs AI is going to kill revealed

AI will take over 37 occupations that require little judgment, empathy or interpersonal skills, a top economics firm predicts.

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Federal parliament will consider new laws to allow people who fall victim of deepfakes to sue.

New push to let Aussies sue deepfake offenders

Proposed laws would ban the use of digitally altered or AI-generated audio or visual content that depicts a person's face or voice without their consent.

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Flying Fish Cove is the main settlement on Christmas Island. Originally named after British survey-ship Flying-Fish, the town is often just called ‘The Settlement’.

Remote Australian territory could soon host new Google hub

Australia’s remote Christmas Island territory is soon expected to host a new ‘connectivity hub’ for subsea cables that stretch across the Indian Ocean.

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Livestreaming gaming app Twitch has been the latest platform put on warning.

Twitch to be included in under-16s social media ban

Livestreaming gaming app Twitch has been the latest platform put on warning ahead of Australia’s impending under-16s social media ban. 

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Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc.

Google roars back as Gemini 3 launch reframes AI battle

Investors are backing Google-owner Alphabet as an winner in the AI race and shrugging off worries its search business is vulnerable to disruption from the technology.

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