#theguardian.com. × #Nov.19.2025 Meta starts notifying Australian teens of account shutdowns as social media ban looms. Facebook and Instagram users under 16 will be sent email, SMS and in-app messages in anticipation of 10 December when ban will begin
#Tech × #Instagram #Facebook #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Nov.18.2025 Roblox rolls out age-verification features in Australia as gaming platform insists child social media ban should not apply. Online gaming company says voluntary age assurance technology will limit teens and children messaging users outside their own age groups
#Tech × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Nov.18.2025 Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs. Ockham Book Awards dropped two titles from contention after new guidelines introduced on artificial intelligence use
#Tech × #Insular Oceania × #New Zealand
#theguardian.com. × #Nov.15.2025 E-waste not want not: how to recycle old phones and computers. The average Australian generates about 22kg of e-waste yearly. Here’s how to responsibly recycle your unwanted devices
#Tech × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Nov.12.2025 Meta could face millions in fines for not signing content deals in Australia. Labor’s proposed media bargaining incentive to apply to platforms with Australian-derived revenue of at least $250m, according to Treasury
#Politics #Tech × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.29.2025 Protests hit Tesla dealerships across the world in challenge to Elon Musk. From Australia to Europe and the US, demonstrators rallied against carmaker’s dismantling of US federal government
#Tech × #cls__sex_gdb_Male #USA #Elon Musk #Australian continent #Australia #Europe #North America #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.29.2025 MP Andrew Gee praises himself as ‘the good guy’ in Facebook fail. Independent MP for Calare caught doing an ‘Angus Taylor’ by replying to a Facebook post from his own account
#Politics #Tech × #Facebook #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.27.2025 Australian home affairs secretary admits to using disappearing messages on Signal for work. In wake of Trump administration group chat scandal, department’s chief operating officer tells Senate there is no ban on staff using the feature
#Business #Politics #Tech × #director #USA #Australian continent #Australia #North America #chief technology officer #Insular Oceania × #Australia Group
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.27.2025 From Meanjin to Warrane, Apple Maps adds more than 250 Indigenous place names in Australia. App to also show land borders for Indigenous protected areas and reserves following similar updates in Canada and the United States in 2023
#Tech × #Canada #USA #Australian continent #Australia #North America #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.25.2025 Australians can now use Apple AirPods Pro as hearing aids – but experts warn they’re not for everyone. Experts hope the use of the headphones for mild to moderate hearing loss will reduce stigma and persuade people to test their hearing
#Health #Tech × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.25.2025 ‘No consent’: Australian authors ‘livid’ that Meta may have used their books to train AI. A searchable database showed titles from former prime ministers Malcolm Turnbull and John Howard, as well as journalist Tracey Spicer
#Tech × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.24.2025 ‘Have you been hacked?’: ALP under fire for ‘repurposing racist meme’ with ‘we love Medicare’ T-shirt. Labor admits it ‘missed the mark’ with social media posts sharing T-shirt that states ‘This is Australia, we eat meat, we drink beer and we love Medicare!’
#Politics #Tech × #Instagram #USA #Australian continent #Australia #North America #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.20.2025 Australian government agencies could be customers of Israeli spyware, research suggests. While it is unknown if any Australians have been targeted, the military-grade program from Paragon Solutions provides full access to encrypted messaging apps
#Tech × #Australian continent #Australia #Asia #Insular Oceania × #Israel
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.19.2025 New NSW laws to regulate e-bike batteries after hundreds of fires and multiple deaths. Fire and Rescue NSW say 384 lithium-ion battery incidents since 2024 caused at least 33 injuries
#Tech × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.15.2025 From sterilising baby bottles to charging laptops, some Australians powered through Cyclone Alfred using EV batteries. With power unlikely to be restored in some areas for weeks, EV owners are finding clever uses for their ‘batteries on wheels’
#Tech × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.14.2025 Get the app, consider capacity and be ready for behavioural change: top tips on installing a home battery. Guardian readers share what they wish they had known before taking the plunge
#Tech × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.13.2025 Elon Musk’s Starlink could be used to transmit Australian election voting results. Contract comes to light after questions raised about the increasing role of Musk in Australia’s communications systems
#Politics #Tech × #cls__sex_gdb_Male #Elon Musk #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.11.2025 Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world-first success. Sydney surgeons ‘enormously proud’ after patient in his 40s receives the Australian-designed implant designed as a bridge before donor heart
#Health #Tech × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.06.2025 Australian Tesla sales plummet as owners rush to distance themselves from Elon Musk. Frustrated Tesla drivers are selling cars or displaying anti-Musk bumper stickers as sales of the EV car brand slumped 72% in February compared with last year
#Automotive #Tech × #cls__sex_gdb_Male #Elon Musk #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.05.2025 Safer phones bill aimed at young teens watered down after minister opposition. New proposal calls for research instead of exclusion of under-16s from algorithms and mobile phone bans in schools
#Tech × #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.05.2025 Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon among tech companies making $27bn from Australians. Greens say Australia should introduce a 3% tax on revenues beyond $20m if a company makes over €750m worldwide
#Tech × #Microsoft #Amazon #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania × #Google
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.04.2025 Teenager in WA arrested over alleged ‘Christchurch 2.0’ online threat to Sydney mosque. Sixteen-year-old arrested on Tuesday in south-west Western Australia over Instagram comment
#Islamic #Religious #Tech × #Instagram #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.04.2025 Social media firms criticise ‘irrational’ exemption of YouTube from Australia’s under-16s ban. Meta, TikTok and Snapchat release statements in campaign protesting Labor’s handling of contested legislation
#Tech × #Snapchat #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania ×
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