Society

Criminals keen to fleece Aussie shoppers of millions of dollars are ramping up efforts to intercept purchases and parcel deliveries during the frenzied Christmas shopping period. This is what you need to know.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Algorithmic media companies exploit the difference between our attentional instincts and aspirations. In so doing, they make it harder for us to become who we might wish to be.

Australian mums say tech-savvy teens will dodge the under-16 social media ban, exploiting age-check flaws and loopholes.

Parents have been warned to strap in for ‘dopamine withdrawal’ tantrums triggered by Australia’s social media ban.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Australia is trying to keep children under 16 off the likes of TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law. The teenagers are sceptical.

TikTok has urged young users to download their content just days out from Australia’s social media ban coming into effect on December 10. 

A Cancer Council sunscreen has been urgently recalled after regulators warned it may not provide full sun protection, with customers told to stop using it immediately.

Australians searching online for porn will soon see images appear differently as new eSafety rules come into force.

MARK RILEY: As new social media platforms pop up to side step the ban, we must keep sight of the reason this law was drafted.

When Patricia awoke from having facial surgery she received tragic news. She’s opened up about the worst part of her ordeal.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The music streaming service is no longer the only company quantifying our social lives.

JAMES BIRT: Australia’s new age-verification rules has caused understandable concern among families, but it will make kids online social world far more visible to adults who have never stepped inside it.

Within hours hundreds of people said they needed the device.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: ‘Why would you not have dark sky preserves in a place where the skies are darkest?’

Anika Wells says Australia’s impending social media ban will help teenagers break away from the ‘dopamine drip’ binding under-16s to their phones.