Social media giants will be scrutinised in a wide-ranging and large-scale probe, with politicians calling for more accountability and transparency.
Jessica Wang
Police in one state have issued a major warning amid an emerging trend of disturbing scams.
Blake Antrobus
As mobile phones emerge as both threats and boons to women's safety, telcos are implementing plans to help customers escaping family or domestic violence.
Kat Wong
Social media giants have been put on notice by Anthony Albanese, who claims algorithms are pushing young people towards “more extreme positions”.
Lauren Ferri and Jessica Wang
After two major public relations disasters, Optus has appointed a new chief executive following the departure of Kelly Bayer Rosmarin.
Upstart airliner Bonza launched in Australia with budgie-smugglers and purple cocktails, but 18 months later the low-cost carrier collapsed. Here’s why.
Duncan Evans
A frightening new report has led to authorities renewing warnings to parents about posting photos of their children online.
Ellen Ransley
The drivers licenses of more than a million Aussies who attended RSLs and pubs may have been exposed in a shocking data breach, with a 46-year-old man now in custody.
Madeleine Achenza and Emma Kirk
Peter Dutton has appeared to back Elon Musk’s X in the bitter fight to stop the platform from showing violent footage of a church stabbing.
Courtney Gould
Tech giant Google reported $2 billion Australian revenue in the year to December but the company’s advertising business went backwards in a subdued market.
Matt Mckenzie
Politicians, police and national security figures have all backed tougher age limits on social media, but researchers say otherwise.
Eleanor Campbell
Lawyers for Elon Musk’s X say the bishop who was allegedly stabbed in a Sydney church “strongly” opposes the video being removed from online, a court has heard.
Steve Zemek
Extremists, scammers and child abusers alike are exploiting artificial intelligence for harm, making ‘diabolic’ imaginary scenarios a reality.
As social media giants come under the microscope, Australia is actively considering one thing to protect kids online.
Social media giants are being put under the microscope amid growing calls for them to co-operate with Australia’s intelligence and law-enforcement agencies.
Courtney Gould and Ellen Ransley
Big tech companies aren’t doing enough to stop terrorists and extremists spreading dangerous content on their platforms, the nation’s top spy says.
The Prime Minister and the tech billionaire have traded barbs as a fight over social media platform X escalates.
Aussies will be encouraged to take the most fuel-efficient route next time they plug in an address in this maps app.
NCA NewsWire
Social media giants have been accused of becoming “a playground for criminals and cranks” as plans for tougher laws intensify.
Tech giants have been urged to do more to remove violent content off their platforms in the fallout of two horrific stabbing incidents.
Experts are warning people to beware of bizarre AI images flooding social media which depict children dressed as cabbages and Jesus made out of shellfish.
William Summers
Elon Musk has blasted the online watchdog over claims an order to remove content related to the Sydney church stabbing was ‘unlawful and dangerous’.
Nathan Schmidt
Leaders are blaming social media companies for a surge in false and harmful information in the aftermath of one of the deadliest mass killings in the nation’s history.
Vodafone customers across the country experienced difficulties in making and receiving calls on Tuesday.
Aisling Brennan