How Australians can access pornography will change within weeks under sweeping new online safety rules.
Andrew Hedgman
Millions have been warned of sweltering temperatures as an intense heatwave continues its tight grip over parts of the country.
Alexandra Feiam
More than half of young Australians are willing to hand over their Christmas shopping to an artificial intelligence tool, but others have concerns.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
A Sydney company that supplies drone technology to WA Police has been managed for decades by a businessman with alleged links to Beijing’s United Front organisation.
Andrew Greene
Emergency repair work is underway on Sydney’s M4 tunnel after authorities closed a section over safety concerns, with some commuters stuck inside.
Emma Kirk
Anthony Albanese’s top diplomat has addressed a key question on Labor’s nuclear stance after a high-level defence official dropped a bombshell.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
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.
James Birt
Glitches during important video calls aren’t just annoying — they could stop you clinching a job interview or undermine trust in health professionals during an online consultation.
Hannah Cross
Aussies battling mysterious account bans, surprise subscription charges and unhelpful chatbots are driving an explosive rise in complaints against tech giants.
The nation’s peak telecommunications mediator wants the Federal Government to expand its powers to help Australians with all digital and social media disputes ahead of the social media ban.
Jessica Evensen
The Deputy Prime Minister has doubled down on a potential role for Australian troops in Ukraine.
Nathan Schmidt, Ria Pandey, Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
AI agents will replace basic offshore labour while making highly skilled local operators far more important, a leading logistics software provider reckons.
Derek Rose
Optus customers in one major city have been impacted by a sudden outage to NBN services, in the latest blow to the embattled telco.
Blake Antrobus
Millions are in the firing line for extreme fire danger as a widespread and sweltering heatwave secures its hold across the country.
YouTube will comply with Australia’s social media ban, but has doubled down on criticism of the legislation, saying it does not understand what it actually does.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Scammers were able to bypass Southern Phone's identity verification systems for months, leading to customers being defrauded almost $400,000.
Farid Farid
AI is a powerful tool for cultural resurgence, yet it also poses risks to simultaneously be a vehicle for a new form of digital appropriation.
Emma Garlett
A major Australian telco has been slapped with a huge penalty for allegedly failing to protect customers from scam callers.
Cameron Micallef
With one week to go until the social media ban, the minister spearheading it is lowering expectations.
Anika Wells says Australia’s impending social media ban will help teenagers break away from the ‘dopamine drip’ binding under-16s to their phones.
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has issued a scathing rebuke of AI CEOs, warning the “purveyors and profiteers” are no longer in control.
Nathan Schmidt
Primary school kids are not getting enough practice on learning to write using a computer and keyboard, a nationwide study reveals.
Bethany Hiatt
The Bureau of Meteorology’s controversial $96m website upgrade has been slammed as a “nightmare case study in contract failure”.
The world's biggest search provider will face a substantial penalty for breaking Australia's competition laws, a court has ruled, after doing deals with telcos.
