Some mental health and extremism experts say Australia exempting YouTube from its under-16 social media ban exposes children to addictive and harmful content
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Australia's eSafety Commissioner issued notices to internet firms asking for an enforceable code to protect kids from pornography and other content by October 3
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Australia unveils a A$587M seven-year cyber resilience plan that includes cyber health checks for small businesses and mandatory reporting of ransomware attacks
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Australian telecom Optus says that “changes to routing information” after a “routine software upgrade” caused the November 8 outage that impacted 10M+ customers
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A look at the Australian Securities Exchange's blockchain project, abandoned in November 2022, to replace its combined trading, clearing, and settlement system
Byron Kaye / Reuters : Tweets: @katebevan , @johnreedstark , @byronkaye , and @smdiehl Tweets: Kate Bevan / @katebevan : Modernisation is hard, yo, and maybe don't plump for a controversial technolog...
An Australian court fines Uber AU$21M for threatening cancellation fees it never charged and overestimating fares on some rides; the ACCC sought a AU$26M fine
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Australia's Online Privacy Bill plans to make social media companies obtain parental consent for users under 16, with fines of up to ~$7.5M for non-compliance
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Google will pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany and Brazil
to help convince governments not to take a whole lot more than that Sundar Pichai / The Keyword : Our $1 billion investment in partnerships with news publishers Byron Kaye / Reuters : Google drops Aus...
Australia's Nuix donated document analysis software to help ICIJ sift through Panama Papers
Byron Kaye / Reuters : Tweets: @call_me_tomasso , @gijn , @owenboswarva and @kennekai Tweets: Tom Osborn / @call_me_tomasso : Nice to see #panamapapers used #NUIX solution to join the dots in the mas...