Parents have been issued an urgent warning after a horrifying trend no child should ever be exposed to emerged online.
Alexandra Feiam
What do the Grinch, Gossip Girl and a popular Christmas carol have in common? They’re all subjects of Labor’s anti-nuclear attack ads aimed at Gen Zs.
Jessica Wang
One Australian woman’s defamation win in court this week has gone viral, with Harry Potter author JK Rowling praising the victory to her 14.2m followers.
Duncan Evans
Free speech advocates are celebrating a visa win for controversial right-wing American firebrand Candace Owens.
The belligerent owner of Facebook and Instagram could be slapped with huge tax charges if it walks away from paying news publishers.
Jessica Wang and Thomas Sargeant
Meta has suffered a major outage, with people across the globe reporting Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp being down.
Clareese Packer
Hundreds of calls for help were transferred to the wrong number or lacked key information after Telstra neglected to update a list of backup numbers.
Jack Gramenz
The man’s mobile phone was seized before he was charged by counter-terrorism detectives with allegedly threatening a Jewish community.
Clareese Packer and Aisling Brennan
Online behemoth Amazon has just announced the cut-off date for its Christmas Day delivery service.
The personalities, topics and major news events that dominated Australian internet searches in 2024 have been revealed by Google.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
An inquiry into the rising threat of right wing extremism has delivered a set of options to roll back the hatred, including a new national hate crimes database.
The world’s most powerful spy alliance has issued a rare warning amid concerns young Aussies and minors are being radicalised online at an alarming new rate.
Ryan Bourke
SMS scammers pretending to be banks, government services and other companies will be crippled by a new SMS ID register.
The Prime Minister dashed Elon Musk’s furious criticism of Australia’s world-first social media age ban, which is set to come into effect in the next 12 months.
The founder of an Australian news channel run almost entirely by teenagers has hit back at Labor’s social media ban, after the contentious laws passed parliament earlier this week.
Liam Beatty
New research has revealed most Aussie banks are failing to fully protect customers from email and phishing scams.
Emma Kirk
Sydney’s blackouts made life a royal pain for thousands of Aussies on Tuesday, including a TikTok star shopping at Woolies for ‘funday sweets’.
An inquiry probing the proposed social media age limit said platforms should be explicitly barred from using formal ID to verify a user’s age
Police are racing to identify Aussie romance scam victims following a raid at an overseas scam centre that resulted in the arrest of 250 alleged cyber criminals.
Australian workers are falling for bogus phishing attacks at almost twice the global rate, concerning research shows.
Blair Jackson
Australia Post says consumers need to be on guard for scams as Black Friday sales ramp up and criminals target unsuspecting victims.
The industry group was criticised for ignoring the wishes of greiving parents who had lost their children to suicide as a result of social media bullying.
Proposed laws aimed at targeting misinformation and disinformation proliferating social media have been culled after it failed to garner support.
The chief executive of a supermarket giant has admitted she is “worried” about a US company as more and more Aussies hunt for better prices.
