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China slams Apple's decision to allow police tracking app for Hong Kong...

Chinese media lashes out at Apple Inc over an app, now available in its online store, that tracks the movement of police around Hong Kong and is used by protesters in ongoing and sometimes violent...

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Protesters crowd Beirut streets to protest tax hikes

Lebanon is in the midst of a severe economic crisis, and demonstrators are protesting new taxes on tobacco, fuel and some social media software such as WhatsApp.

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US Attorney-General William Barr on the hacking of data of more than 147...

Over 147 million US citizens were affected in the breach, when hackers stole names, addresses and intellectual property out of Equifax databases.

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Deputy CMO says authorities can't yet access app tracing data

The COVIDSafe tracing app will not share data with state health authorities until the system is activated.

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Coronavirus tracing app COVIDSafe now fully functional

The Government's coronavirus tracing app COVIDSafe is now fully functional, after all states and territories signed up to allow its use. The app currently has 5.6 million users.

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'How did this happen?': Facial recognition slowly being trialled around the...

When Lauren Dry heard that facial recognition cameras were being trialled in the suburb of East Perth, she thought it was a joke. But trials have been conducted in every state and territory in Australia.

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The supercomputer is installed

The National Computation Infrastructure says the Gadi machine is the most powerful of it's kind in the southern hemisphere.

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NSW Now: Tech giant to reshape Central's skyline with world-first

MORNING BRIEFING: Atlassian reveals plans to build the world's tallest commercial hybrid timber tower next to Sydney's Central Station. The 40-story building is expected to house up to 4,000 staff.

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UK Police make arrests after hacking encrypted communications network

A massive cross-border police exercise ran from 2017, when French police began investigating phones using the EncroChat tool.

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Adelaide content creators allege software company stole intellectual property

Two Adelaide-based digital content creators have told a parliamentary select committee about the alleged theft of their intellectual property by an Adelaide software company.

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This is not Tom Cruise. That's what has security experts so worried

When Chris Ume unleashed a deepfake video of Hollywood star Tom Cruise, he had no idea the reaction it would provoke.

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John McAfee is seen giving testimony on the day of his extradition hearing on...

The anti-virus software entrepreneur was remanded to the jail where he was found dead days after appearing before a duty judge by video link.

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SA Liberal Party's use of campaign software referred to Office of Public...

The state Liberal Party's use of campaign software NationBuilder is referred to the Office of Public Integrity for assessment over potential issues of misconduct or maladministration.

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'Internet's on fire': Users around the world at risk amid the 'most critical...

Within 12 hours of being disclosed, a bug is "fully weaponised", sparking a race between hackers and the cybersecurity companies trying to head them off.

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Here is what you need to know about the Log4j software security fault

Security professionals say it is one of the worst computer vulnerabilities they have ever seen as agencies in the United States and Australia sound the alarm on Log4j software.

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Predicting triple j's Hottest 100 using an algorithm

A Sydney software engineer's creation is predicting which songs will make the triple j countdown.

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Michel is one of three men with paraplegia who can walk again, thanks to new...

Watching Michel Roccati standing in a bar, you'd never know he has a spinal cord injury so severe his legs are usually completely paralysed. A new device allows him to walk again, but it won't be...

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Net zero could give Australia the world's cheapest electricity, Atlassian...

Billionaire co-founder of software company Atlassian, Mike Cannon-Brookes, says he will continue to work with the board of energy giant AGL to pursue a takeover that would help Australia have the...

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Who is Mike Cannon-Brookes, the tech billionaire who tried to buy Australia's...

The 42-year-old Atlassian co-founder has been making headlines trying to execute what he called the biggest decarbonisation project in the world.

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US authorities launch legal action to derail Microsoft's acquisition of...

The Federal Trade Commission sues to block Microsoft's planned $US69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard, saying it could suppress competitors to Microsoft's Xbox game console.

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Microsoft to cut 10,000 jobs as tech lay-offs intensify

The job cuts reflect about 5 per cent of the computer giant's workforce, and the move comes after other recent mass lay-offs from companies including Amazon, Meta and Twitter.

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ChatGPT has been banned by schools, but law firms and architects have been...

While schools are banning ChatGPT, Australian workplaces are already deploying it and other new artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Here's how they're using them.

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'We are deeply sorry': 120 Australian Atlassian jobs to go as tech firm sheds...

Australian software company Atlassian will reduce its workforce by 5 per cent in response to changing economic conditions, but co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar say the company is not...

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ChatGPT start-up OpenAI set to release powerful new AI model

Startup tech company OpenAI says it is releasing a powerful artificial intelligence model known as GPT-4, setting the stage for human-like technology to proliferate and more competition between its...

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How are you using generative AI in everyday life? Tell us

Whether it's helping with recipes or content ideas, we want to know how you've made generative AI a part of your life. 

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