Senior technology journalist at Information Age, but no longer posting on X 👨💻 Formerly at @abcnews. Got a tip? [email protected]
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Thank you @tom__williams. Hopefully more parliamentarians are waking up to the threat of A1. A2 is probably not much better.
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The Australian government plans to ban children under the age of 16 from having #socialmedia accounts, with Prime Minister @AlboMP announcing the reforms will be considered by state and territory leaders at a meeting of national cabinet.
Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/a…
New: Australians have admitted to using their #smartglasses while driving and to film other people without their consent, raising concerns over public safety and privacy according to a new @MonashUni study led by Dr @fakaviani.
Full story on @InfoAgeAu: ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/a…
Wanna search and then become increasingly frustrated by the full list of more than 1,200 organisations (including a bunch of #tech companies) which didn't pay tax in Australia in 2022-23? 🔍
Try out the searchable table I made in this story 👇
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Heavily marketed hearing health features for @Apple's #AirPods Pro 2 headphones are now the latest innovations from the technology giant which have launched in the US but remain unavailable in Australia due to a lack of regulatory approval.
Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/a…
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In Australian dollars, that (roughly) equates to $31,210,773,462,863,364,000,000,000,000,000,000.00. Piece by me for ABC:
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Australia’s national science agency @CSIRO is calling for industry partners to help take its flexible #solar panel technology to market as it opens a new “cutting-edge” facility in Melbourne’s south-east.
Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/c…
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everyone: where's Nintendo's Switch 2?
Nintendo: you will listen to our alarm clock and music app and be happy
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New from me: Members of Australian law enforcement have called for changes to privacy legislation which would allow them to use #AI-powered facial recognition and decryption to more easily identify victims and perpetrators of child sexual abuse 🚨
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New from me: Members of Australian law enforcement have called for changes to privacy legislation which would allow them to use #AI-powered facial recognition and decryption to more easily identify victims and perpetrators of child sexual abuse 🚨
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A six-month trial of @Microsoft’s #Copilot AI assistant by the Australian Public Service ran into “adoption challenges” and generated concerns from some workers about impacts on jobs and the environment, according to a report by the @DTA.
Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/g…
Billionaire Richard White says he needs to focus "on @WiseTechGlobal and its growth, and on my family" as he resigns from the company and from the board of @techcouncil_aus following allegations of inappropriate behaviour.
@InfoAgeAu story: ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/w…
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The former CEO of collapsed Australian #cryptocurrency exchange Mine Digital, Grant Colthup, has been charged with fraud after an investigation by corporate regulator @asicmedia found a customer did not receive millions in Bitcoin they had paid for.
More: ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/a…
TikTok's parent company ByteDance has fired an intern after they allegedly “maliciously interfered” with a research project involving #AI 👨💻
The company rejected claims that the intern's alleged actions caused more than $15 million in damage.
Full story: ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/b…
New: 1.1 million “near tech” workers could be reskilled to help close Australia's cyber skills gap, according to the 10th annual Digital Pulse report 👨💻
Deputy PM @RichardMarlesMP says tech needs “an uplift in the workforce”.
#auspol
More on @InfoAgeAu: ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/o…
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Experts say #AI is both helping (and hindering) when it comes to comedy😜
I asked veteran comedy writer @JoeToplyn, @GoogleDeepMind scientist and AI improviser @MirowskiPiotr, and @wdanusha from @Sydney_Uni about what the tech can (and can't) do for us.
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More than $9 million worth of #cryptocurrency linked to the accused mastermind of a communications app allegedly used by organised crime figures has been seized by the @AusFedPolice.
Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/9…
Tom Williams retweeted
New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action 404media.co/someone-put-faci…
