Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down after 15 years at the helm of one of the world’s largest technology firms, the company announced on Tuesday (AEDT).
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Shares of New Zealand-founded, US-based shoe brand Allbirds soared 580 per cent after the company’s leadership sold off their shoemaking business and announced they had secured $69 million ($US50 million) in finance to become an AI infrastructure provider.
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The chief executive and chief financial officer of a bankrupt AI company that was once worth more than $2 billion have been charged with fraud, after alleging faking “virtually all” of their customers and revenue.
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A 22-year-old South Australian man is being held without bail after he was charged with 12 counts of cybercrime following a “complex” investigation that led to a range of state and federal offences.
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Analysis of almost 200 school-endorsed apps found that most start harvesting Australian children’s data within seconds in contravention of developers’ own privacy policies, leaving underage users exposed to significant privacy and security risks.
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The Australian arm of travel booking platform lastminute.com is shutting down after more than 25 years.
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Snap Inc, best known for its social media platform Snapchat, will cut around 1,000 staff – or 16 per cent of its full-time workforce – as it increases its use of AI in the search for profitability, the company announced on Thursday (AEDT).
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Telecommunications regulator ACMA is investigating an “incredibly concerning” claim by @accan-aus.bsky.social that 10 per cent of Australians couldn’t reach Triple Zero services due to a mobile outage in the past 12 months, which Telstra has called “misleading”.
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Apple has confirmed granting Australian law enforcement access to some user notification data for the first time, which can identify a target's device and potentially intercept or recover text from notifications.
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The Australian Taxation Office has won a long-running legal battle and dealt a blow to workers hoping to claim working-from-home rental expenses as tax deductions.
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American education technology company Chegg has been fined $500,000 after the Federal Court of Australia found it had broken local law by helping university students cheat on assessments.
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Travel and reservations giant Booking.com has notified an unknown number of customers about a data breach affecting “anything” they’ve shared with certain accommodation providers.
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OPINION: "AI did not 'cure cancer' by itself," writes oncologist Justin Stebbing.
"It acted as an always-available guide and assistant, but qualified scientists still had to check its work and do the hard parts in the lab.
"Even so, this case is a vivid example of several ideas coming together."
Australians are too busy to study or undertake work-related training, according to new ABS figures that have charted a steady decline over the past four years – and reveal that young people are studying more to improve their job prospects than to boost their skills.
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Exploding use of autonomous AI agents saw the volume of traffic generated by agentic AI increase by 7,851 per cent last year, according to a new report, with a 187 per cent surge in AI-related traffic exposing the degree to which machine-to-machine exchanges are coming to dominate the internet.
Sam Altman’s house has been attacked twice over the weekend, just days after the publication of a major exposé article about the OpenAI CEO, that he labelled “incendiary”.
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OPINION: "Our research makes a clear case for getting more STEM expertise into the boardroom," write QUT researchers Natalie Elms and Dr Ashesha Weerasinghe.
"We found companies with greater STEM representation on their boards invested more in innovation and investors valued them more highly."
Brisbane-based cryptocurrency exchange Swyftx has laid off some 15 per cent of its workforce and replaced its chief executive after the company landed two major acquisitions during a period of Bitcoin decline.
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A former Meta employee is being investigated by police for allegedly designing a program to bypass internal security checks and download tens of thousands of private images posted on Facebook when they worked at the company.
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Bendigo Bank has signalled a new round of job cuts under two new technology partnerships that will grant the bank increased access to “AI talent”.
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Anthropic is partnering with some of the biggest technology companies in the world on a new project aiming to secure critical infrastructure from the threats posed by AI, revealing a yet-to-be released model has found “thousands” of significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
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Optus has followed the lead of archrival Telstra, raising the prices of its mobile plans for the second time in a year just weeks after the industry ombudsman said declining financial hardship complaints suggested telcos were finally addressing cost-of-living pressures.
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OPINION: "Whether you're running a two-person startup or a global operation, the same costly inefficiencies can drain your bottom line," writes Emily Chantiri.
"Here are the five biggest office money wasters, and how eliminating them could save you from spending a fortune rectifying future damage."
The Australian CEO of DroneShield has quit just months after selling almost $50 million worth of shares in the defence tech company, whose share price fell by more than 15 per cent after the announcement on Wednesday.
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Internet giants Google and @cloudflare.social have warned the encryption standards underpinning modern digital security may be broken by quantum machines sooner than expected.
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OPINION: "Relying on public fast chargers won’t be enough, as queues at chargers over Easter show," write UNSW researchers Bjorn Sturmberg and Arastoo Teymouri.
"... In our new research, we lay out what a good kerbside network should look like."
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A University of @sydney.edu.au researcher’s “blueprint” for quantum computing error correction developed while on an industry placement at IBM has been adopted by the global tech giant.
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Nine Australian universities rank amongst the top 100 in the world overall, according to new standings that also saw 37 per cent of subjects at Australian and New Zealand institutions improve their positions – but revealed systemic shortcomings in research and teaching.
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Astronauts on US space agency NASA’s latest lunar mission have ventured farther into space than any humans before them, but that doesn’t mean they’ve been spared the frustrations of troubleshooting Microsoft Outlook.
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OPINION: "The new [eSafety] report on social media restrictions shows there is a long road ahead for compliance," writes RMIT University's @lisagiven.bsky.social.
"And if we want to fully address the harms posed by these platforms, new legislation that actually targets the root problem is needed."