Hackers have stolen the medical records, bank details and photographs of students at an Aussie school dating back to 2015, following a cyber attack.
Emma Kirk
An Australian MP has rubbished Sydney Sweeney’s “toxic” betting ad as a “lure” to young men and told the actor to “do better”.
Nathan Schmidt
Without a sovereign AI model Australia will become a “supplicant state”, a Liberal frontbencher has warned, as the Senate debates an “extinction” risk.
The minister charged with checking big tech’s power has extended an olive branch on proposed internet laws that the Coalition decry as “censorship”.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
The consumer watchdog has its sights set on “predatory” free trial offerings across the economy following a winning lawsuit against a dating site.
Blair Jackson
Customers in four states and jurisdictions were affected by the telco's second systems failure in a year, which prompted welfare checks by police.
Catherine Bouris
A landmark legal case about gender identity discrimination has ended – with the highest court in Australia ruling in favour of a trans woman.
Angus Taylor has thrown a major hurdle in the way of Anthony Albanese’s plan to crack down on big tech.
Anthony Albanese’s latest big tech crackdown has spurred a warning from the White House against “extortion”.
A “global reckoning” is coming for big tech as Anthony Albanese announces the government’s long-awaited digital duty of care.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer and Nathan Schmidt
Despite flexible work and artificial intelligence shaking up how companies run, a staggering number of Aussie businesses run networks on home internet plans.
Adrian Black
A former teacher’s aide who coerced young boys into performing sexually explicit acts over social media has learned his fate at court.
More than a million students, parents and teachers have been swept up in a huge cyber attack that exposed personal details.
Andrew Hedgman
The minister charged with cracking down on online harms and reining in big tech’s power is threatening “big fines”.
The minister charged with making the social media ban for teens a success has made a plea to “dawdling” parliamentarians.
A fight is brewing over highly anticipated laws cracking down on social media giants, with Angus Taylor warning of censorship.
Telstra has been fined over a quarter of a million dollars for failing to carry out required identity verification checks to protect customers from fraud.
Noah Secomb
One of Australia’s most prominent activists has called on Labor to address a horror explosion in sexual violence among teenagers.
Ria Pandey and Nathan Schmidt
A leading Australian advocate has sounded the alarm on the role of addictive online ecosystems, as authorities fight to curb teen sexual violence.
Thousands of workers at a leading Australian university are preparing to walk off the job over job security and AI protections.
A concerning rise in sexual violence among teens has prompted the government to weigh up two key reforms to tackle violent and misogynistic content online.
Ria Pandey
A telecommunications worker has been charged after allegedly selling customer data to criminal gangs, who then used it to defraud innocent victims.
David Hannant
A probe into Labor’s bolstered social media ban has handed down its recommendations on whether Australia should adopt stronger laws.
Three of Australia’s leading mobile network operators have been forced to launch a public campaign on calling triple-0 in the wake of the outage disasters.
