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The online safety regulator has fined Telegram for responding late to a legal notice. (AP PHOTO)

Telegram hit with huge fine for obstructing eSafety commissioner

Australia’s online safety regulator has fined messaging platform Telegram almost $1 million after it took five months to respond to requests about terrorism and extremist material.

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Some GPs won’t return to universal bulk billing, the Australian Medical Association says.

Costs 'too great' for bulk billing return despite Medicare boost

Not all general practices will revert to universal bulk billing under a bipartisan $8.5 billion pledge to boost Medicare as costs jump across Australia.

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Treasurer Angus Taylor says the Coalition “won’t get in the way” of Labor’s proposed $8.5b bulk billing GP plan.

Labor ‘cleaning up own mess’ with bulk bill plan: Opposition

Angus Taylor says the Coalition ‘won’t get in the way’ of Labor’s proposed $8.5b bulk billing GP plan to allow more Australians to visit a doctor but claims the move is ‘cleaning up the mess’ Labor has made.

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Kay Henderson is choosing to end her life through voluntary assisted dying.

Meet the NSW woman who will be dead by the end of the day

In a few short hours, Kay Henderson will end her life through voluntary assisted dying after a lengthy health battle.

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Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ASIO Director General Mike Burgess has warned Australia is on red alert for a surge in ‘high-impact sabotage’.

Australia on red alert for surge in ‘high-impact sabotage’

Future sabotage attempts on Australia’s critical infrastructure such as undersea cables could be ‘catastrophic’, the deputy chief of the parliament’s joint committee on intelligence and security has warned. 

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Apple iPhone 16e will go on sale in Australia within days.

How Apple’s new budget-friendly iPhone stacks up to current lineup

What is new, what is missing, and is this the best iPhone deal we’ve seen in years?  

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Victoria is introducing laws to end a ban on doctors raising voluntary assisted dying with patients.

State moves to bin assisted dying 'gag' on doctors

The first Australian state to legalise voluntary euthanasia is set to lift a ‘gag clause’ on doctors raising the subject with terminally ill patients.

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A quadropod robot developed by  DEEP Robotics, a startup founded by a graduate of Zhe Da university.

The dazzling Chinese university behind DeepSeek

The institution that birthed the AI conqueror models itself on Stanford and is located in the tech hotspot of Hangzhou.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook has teased a new product will be unveiled at its first launch event of 2025.

‘Most disappointing launch of all time’: Critics slam Apple

Apple launched a new product at an event that drew the eye of millions across the world on Thursday and many loyal customers and critics are not happy.

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The Goodman data centre in Sydney.

Big business places its bets on AI as data demand takes hold

JACKSON HEWETT: Goodman Group has supercharged its global building strategy, the latest company to invest heavily in AI infrastructure, as demand takes hold.

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Genea Fertility says it is responding to a cyber incident after “identifying suspicious activity”.

One of Australia’s largest IVF providers hit by cyber attack

One of the country’s largest IVF providers was forced to take its systems offline after it was targeted in a suspected cyber attack. 

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Discovery images of asteroid 2024 YR4.

NASA raises odds of ‘city-killer’ asteroid hitting Earth

An asteroid travelling with enough speed to flatten a city will pass Earth in 2032.

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A woman is suing a fertility clinic in the US after an embryo mix-up that left her 'broken'.

Woman sues IVF clinic after having other couple's baby

When US woman Krystena Murray delivered a healthy baby boy in 2023, she knew immediately it wasn't hers.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook has teased a new product will be unveiled at its first launch event of 2025.

Apple is launching its ‘newest’ product, here’s what we know

Apple CEO Tim Cook sent the rumour mill into overdrive when he teased that the brand will unveil its ‘newest member of the family’ at its February 19 launch event. Here’s what we know.

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