Canada has introduced legislation to bar children under 16 from having social media accounts, joining an Australia-led global effort to tighten online safety.
Maria Cheng
A Channel 7 reporter has taken to social media to share how she was made redundant from the network while on maternity leave, as hundreds across the company are cut.
Emma Kirk, Jack Nivison
Thousands of Australians are reporting trouble with their mobile phone service, with smartphone snags responsible for almost half of all ombudsman complaints.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Internet and mobile services provider TPG Telecom says an expanded network means its Vodafone brand now has the credibility to compete with Telstra and Optus.
Derek Rose
A leading ABC star has broken ranks with his own employer over the broadcaster’s new podcast launched by former Australian of the Year Grace Tame.
Emma Kirk
A rush to knock 20 per cent off car registration costs has crashed one state’s public services app and website.
Blair Jackson
The ABC trialled using artificial intelligence to rewrite radio news bulletins for online, a Senate estimates hearing has been told.
Nathan Schmidt
Australians have been issued a stark warning about artificial intelligence, with a leading human rights group warning we are “not ready”.
The eSafety commissioner has revealed a key detail about why a popular app may be included in Australia’s landmark under-16 social media ban.
Nathan Schmidt and Ria Pandey
WA is weeks away from being plugged into one of the biggest upgrades to the nation’s internet backbone in a generation, as a new subsea cable strengthens Perth’s role as a strategic digital hub.
Ryan Johnson
An Australian parliamentarian and three staffers were targeted in a WhatsApp hack believed to have been orchestrated by a “foreign state actor”.
Elon Musk’s social media platform X has received a $750,000 penalty after failing to address a list of questions from the eSafety Commissioner.
Liam Beatty
Furious customers have unleashed on a budget retailer after it announced it was winding down operations - with one blunt response attracting particular outrage.
David Hannant
Most households are not accessing the full speed of their broadband connections, research shows, and the reasons are surprising.
Mobile plans with the major Australian telcos go up again on Monday, handing customers a price hike well above three times the inflation rate.
A major cybersecurity breach has compromised the personal data of tens of thousands of Australian students across schools and universities – leaving institutions scrambling.
A bedding company best known for its “bed-in-a-box” mattress has copped a massive fine after an Australian court found it had misled customers about bogus sales and discounts.
Alexandra Feiam
Artificially intelligent chatbots on three popular social networks will share details about what teens ask with their parents under the latest reform.
Stolen Australian identities are selling online for as little as $280 on the dark web, research from online security experts shows.
Wild footage has offered an unseen glimpse into the squalid conditions cop killer Dezi Freeman was living in while on the run from police.
Blake Antrobus
An Australian YouTuber previously taken to court by a US gaming figure has now turned the tables with a fresh lawsuit of his own.
Andrew Hedgman and Blake Antrobus
The European Union has announced an app to confirm users' age online, as more countries get moving on plans to restrict children from social media.
Gianluca Lo Nostro
The UN has asked the Australian government to explain an onslaught of violence, rape and doxxing threats directed at anti-gendered violence campaigners.
Australia Post has sounded the alarm over a new type of scam emerging over social media marketplaces, issuing a blunt warning to buyers and sellers.
Andrew Hedgman
