Australian PM Scott Morrison proposes new defamation legislation mandating social media companies reveal the identities of anonymous online trolls or face fines

  Techmeme   ·   3 hours ago

Women of the sea: Korea’s oldest free divers

  Hacker News   ·   1 week ago

'Speed friending' events

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

Australia's High Court affirms earlier rulings that media companies can be held responsible for Facebook comments posted under stories on their Facebook Pages

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Dead white man’s clothes: charity clothes fuel environmental disaster in Ghana

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

A simple mistake that stuffed up world temperature records for 90 years

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside

  Hacker News   ·   6 months ago

Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app

  Hacker News   ·   6 months ago

Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds

  Hacker News   ·   7 months ago

How large is Rupert Murdoch's reach through News Corp in Australian media

  Hacker News   ·   8 months ago

Facebook promised to ban anti-vaxxers. The pages are still up and now they’re selling t-shirts

  Reddit   ·   9 months ago

Encrypted messaging app Signal no longer working in China

  Reddit   ·   9 months ago

Facebook to reverse news ban on Australian sites, government to make amendments to media bargaining code

  Reddit   ·   9 months ago

Australian authorities in public health, weather, and other areas say Facebook has removed posts from their feeds following Facebook's news ban

  Techmeme   ·   9 months ago

‘Only a knucklehead would take on Google’: Why building our own search engine is so hard

  Reddit   ·   10 months ago

Microsoft president calls on other countries to ‘copy’ Australian media bargaining code

  Reddit   ·   10 months ago

New treatment for stroke/brain injury shows promising results.

  Reddit   ·   10 months ago

Australians to have proof of their coronavirus vaccination on their smartphone

  Reddit   ·   10 months ago

Twitter blocks 70,000 QAnon accounts after US Capitol riot, shares slide

  Reddit   ·   11 months ago

Former Chinese Huawei employee speaks out on Shenzhen’s ‘996’ culture as city enforces paid leave

  Reddit   ·   11 months ago

Russian Parliament backs bill enabling Moscow to block US social media giants

  Reddit   ·   11 months ago

Bluewaters coal-fired power station written off as worthless as renewables rise

  Reddit   ·   12 months ago

Coronavirus kills more people in the US in one day than on September 11

  Hacker News   ·   12 months ago

How social media influencer tactics help conspiracy theories gain traction online

  Reddit   ·   12 months ago

Chinese submarine sends first live video back from the bottom of the Mariana Trench

  Reddit   ·   12 months ago

Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'national unity'

  Hacker News   ·   1 year ago

Reddit tried to stop the spread of hateful material. New research shows it may have made things worse

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

South Australia Becomes World’s First Major Jurisdiction to be Powered 100% by Solar Power

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

Famous cattle station once owned by Kerry Packer earmarked for massive solar farm

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

Australia’s first private space rocket blasts off from Koonibba Aboriginal community

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

‘Disappointing’ start to Australia’s private space race as rocket misfires at Koonibba

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

Twitter tags Trump tweets about Joe Biden ‘manipulated media’

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

China’s mass surveillance of 35,000 Australians revealed

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

Names and addresses of NSW motorists left exposed by driver’s licence data breach

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

Facebook threatens to ban Australians from sharing news

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

Older men charged more for using Tinder’s premium service, Choice mystery shoppers find

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

Running a marathon was never crazier than during the 1904 St Louis Olympics

  Hacker News   ·   1 year ago

Renewables could power most of Australia by 2040, Australian Energy Market Operator plan shows

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

Facebook, Google to be forced to pay for news as part of new mandatory code of conduct to support traditional news media in Australia

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

The Australian government announces AU$1.35B will be used over the next decade to boost cyberdefense capabilities against a surge in state-backed cyberattacks

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Gadi, Australia’s new supercomputer, ranks 25th most powerful in the world

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

Twitter removes 30,000 Chinese, Russian and Turkish accounts linked to government propaganda

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

Queensland researchers analysing coronavirus conspiracy theories warn of social media danger

  Reddit   ·   1 year ago

Facebook to pay moderators $80 million for psychological damages

  Reddit   ·   2 years ago

Sydney inventor David Soo can grow $600,000 worth of vanilla from his smartphone

  Reddit   ·   2 years ago

'Publisher' Google ordered to pay $40k in damages for defaming Melbourne lawyer

  Hacker News   ·   2 years ago

Australia orders the creation of a mandatory code of conduct requiring platforms like Google and Facebook to pay media businesses for news content

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

‘Hot’ qubits crack quantum computing temperature barrier – "Two experiments have shown that qubits trapped in silicon can work at higher temperatures than previously shown".

  Reddit   ·   2 years ago

Google, Facebook users face lawsuits over defamatory reviews

  Reddit   ·   2 years ago

Quantum experiment in China breaks through distance barrier in optic fibres

  Reddit   ·   2 years ago