A Senate inquiry report into last year’s Optus outage provides the government with a blueprint to modernise the telco industry.
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Apple’s vision of constant recording that still ‘protects your privacy’ may help usher in a world where ambient surveillance is the norm.
AI is a global technology. A global approach to regulating it is urgently needed.
Rent tech is an unavoidable part of modern renting – and renters have little control over what data they have to give up and what happens to it afterwards.
A new study unearths the deep Earth connection between Lord Howe Island and its sibling chain of drowned volcanoes.
The decisions we make today will shape Australia’s future for decades.
It might appear featureless, but one of the world’s largest limestone regions hides a remarkable underground world.
Why do some people perceive a robot as ‘creepy’ while others don’t? It seems our response to these increasingly common non-human companions is highly subjective.
What’s at play is investment from big AI companies versus the long-term interests of Australian creatives.
Social media platforms are the easiest place for a curious 16-year-old to find someone selling peptides.
Forgot your laundry in the washing machine? Sorry, you’re going to have to wash it again.
This could mark the start of a major arms race in space, which would threaten all of us on Earth.
Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.
Meretneith was buried in a tomb fit for a male ruler. But for decades, debate has raged over her true royal status.
Tech platforms need to be responsible for reporting online child sexual exploitation rather than relying on victims to do so.
AI companies are calling for a coordinated pause to progress – but making it work, and keeping AI safe, won’t be easy.
The rhythms aren’t necessarily tied to hormones, nor any other single cause.
From almost 350 questions, nine experts answer the most common ones you asked.
Data centres were once treated as invisible pieces of digital infrastructure. Now, they’re the focus of intense political debate.
A powerful mix of hopes, fears and arms-race dynamics means AI companies won’t slow down unless they’re forced to.
Despite their name, Tasmanian devils could be found across mainland Australia thousands of years ago.
OpenAI found a solution to the long-standing Navier-Stokes problem. Not everyone is happy about how they did it.
Unless forced to do so, big tech companies are unlikely to implement features that go against their business model.
The discovery of Gondwana’s buried bits helps settle the question of whether it was a supercontinent.
Betel nut is the fourth most-used psychoactive drug in the world – and new evidence suggests it was being used in Indonesia as long as 25,000 years ago.