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On the very first day of public hearings for the much-vaunted Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant compared banning children younger than 16 from social media to banning them from the ocean.

Students are central to an AI arms race in which programs generating answers for assignments and those designed to catch them out are scrambling for superiority.

Technology multinational Nvidia has become the world's most valuable company, dethroning tech heavyweight Microsoft as its high-end processors play a central role in a scramble to dominate artificial intelligence computing.

This week in tech news, a global survey shows Australians are less comfortable with AI-generated news than the rest of the world, while Meta navigates the next steps in rolling out its AI trial and the US Surgeon-General calls for social media warning labels for teens.

Apple is finally making its big AI move, and it matters more than most flashy big tech launches for two reasons.

If you're among the majority of Australians with Facebook or Instagram accounts, your social activity on those platforms might be training Meta's artificial intelligence (AI) tools — and if you live in Australia, you can't say no.

Most of the country has bought cheap tickets to the hotly-anticipated action blockbuster, eSafety v Elon Musk, filmed on location at the Australian Federal Court.

The eSafety Commissioner's fight against X over videos of the Wakeley stabbing just got messier, with two new groups from the other side of the world granted leave to join the case.

A new campaign — called I Am Not A Typo — is urging tech companies to fix ethnic bias in their algorithms to stop autocorrect mangling so many people's names. 

This week in tech news, OpenAI drops a new chatbot voice bearing a striking resemblance to Scarlett Johansson's, federal parliament discusses laws on political deepfakes, and the internet continues to be a terrifying place to be a teenager. 

The timing of South Australia's announcement of a social media ban suggests that the federal government's plan to introduce age verification for porn could easily be expanded — and is it any surprise?

The SA government announces what it says is an "ambitious" first step to protect children from social media and its harmful impacts on their mental health, but one expert says a blanket ban is rarely the answer.

In this week's round-up of tech news, a closer inspection reveals the tricky aspects of implementing age verification for porn, OpenAI is due to launch its own search tool and Reddit sleuths seek out the origins of the most mysterious song on the internet.

If you've lived online long enough for Facebook to start dredging up embarrassing status updates from a decade ago, chances are you've picked up on a distinct vibe shift in our virtual world.

Google and Apple are being dragged through the courts around the world and the case has finally hit Australia. Courtrooms have heard how the tech giants are quietly earning billions in commissions from smartphone users. Here’s what could happen if they lose the fight here.

As the shutdown of the 3G network approaches, millions of Australians are switching over their phones to make sure they are compatible with 4G. But farmers are facing a much bigger problem.

The launch of Meta's artificial intelligence tool has generated a wave of confusion among users as the AI bots descended upon familiar social media apps and began interacting with real people. Here are five quick questions on what the new tool means for users.

After months of back-and-forth with Facebook's customer support, Catherine Wilson now hates the platform and she's not alone. Complaints about scams targeting businesses on Facebook and Instagram are spiking and for many, it's a bigger fight to get the account back.

In this week's round-up of the best, worst and strangest in tech news, Elon Musk chucks a Bart Simpson in — figuratively — mooning the Australian government, and Meta's new AI claims it has a child.

Facebook parent Meta unveiled a new set of artificial intelligence systems that are powering what CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls "the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use".

In the information vacuum immediately following the mass stabbing at Bondi Junction over the weekend, the alt-right exploited the opportunity to spread disinformation and hatred on a favourite, lawless social media platform. 

Screen time is a big issue for many parents and educators, but when safely managed it can help children develop creativity, according to an expert. 

Australians are on track for a government-issued digital ID. Most people seem relaxed, but it's the number one story on "alt social media".

Technology helps keep things running smoothly on Prenti Downs and station manager Jack Carmody says it has a massive role to play in the industry.

Authorities warn new technology arriving in Australia with a cute cartoon mascot has the potential to allow tech-savvy thieves to steal property with the click of a button.