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Australia wants to ‘manage’ AI. What will that look like?
Other countries are also grappling with how best to handle this issue. There are growing calls for Australia to do the same.
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Australia joins a global warning on Russian state hackers. What it means for your money
Australian operators are among those at risk, and the businesses most exposed are the ones that keep the lights, water and networks running.
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Mobile domestic roaming explained: how the government could pass laws to make big mobile outages less risky
What exactly is domestic mobile roaming? And could it help prevent some of the problems caused by a major outage like the one Telstra experienced…
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How to spot the Telstra outage scams targeting customers now
Telstra customers are being warned about scammers using the telco's outage as bait. Here's what to look out for.
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How the Telstra outage hit the economy
While it’s too early to count the full economic cost of this outage, this incident reminds us that mobile networks are more than a convenience.
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Why was this week’s Telstra outage so bad? An expert explains
Australians woke up this morning to a major outage affecting Telstra, the largest telecommunications network in the country. But mobile phones weren’t the only thing…
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How some AI users and tools are opening the back door for scammers
A wave of new research shows little add-ons for popular AI tools can quietly help themselves to everything on the machine.
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Fragmented and incomplete: why is nobody in charge of Australia’s EV charger rollout?
In Australia, battery EVs have reached 23% of new car sales. That figure could be higher still – if it wasn’t for the question of…
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Should Australia pause building new datacentres?
At first glance a data centre looks like a bland, boring warehouse. But these buildings, stacked with thousands of servers, are the beating heart of...
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100 days behind the wheel of a self-driving car: the mistakes it keeps making, and the verdict
Over the past 100-plus days, my colleagues and I have used a Tesla Model Y with Full Self-Driving every day on Queensland roads. Here's how…