Australian Government pushes for digital identity system after Optus hack

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has called together all the digital ministers to kick-start the rollout of a national identity system. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 1 year ago

The new factory making meat that’s illegal to eat

You can’t eat cell-based meat anywhere except Singapore, but that hasn’t stopped start-up Vow opening a huge factory in Sydney. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 1 year ago

TikTok’s ‘alarming’, ‘excessive’ data collection revealed (FR Exclusive)

The viral video-app checks device location at least once an hour, continuously requests access to contacts, maps a device’s running apps and all installed apps, and more. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 1 year ago

Australian Digital Neobank Volt shuts down with loss of 140 jobs

It will hand back deposits to customers and return its banking licence, marking another failure in the neobank experiment. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 1 year ago

Inflation Is Poised to Ease According to These Three Key Indicators

Declines in the prices of computer chips, shipping containers and fertiliser show that relief is coming from seemingly ever-rising prices. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 1 year ago

Love working from home? Maybe you’re a ‘task filler’

Working from home is bad for business and workers; after all, if your job can be done from Brighton or Parramatta or Chatswood, it can probably also be done from Bangalore or Johannesburg, for a lot cheaper. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 1 year ago

Another Secret Trial in Australia

After nine months of hearings, seven judgments, and government spending of $2 million, we still know too little about the prosecutions of Bernard Collaery and Witness K. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 1 year ago

Bot will judge you in five questions at the first interview

If you’re going for a job at Afterpay, Woolworths or Qantas, your first interview is going to be with Phai, a bot that’s a smart interviewer. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

Through the looking glass: how Russians see the war

Putin’s crackdown on dissent gives him space to present his mind-bending narrative of the war in Ukraine. Willingly or fearfully, many Russians accept it. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

How AI is teaching card sharks new tricks

A handful of artificial intelligence-based tools has radically remade the way poker is played, especially at the highest levels of the game. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

Blackbird’s $10b return makes it Australia’s biggest VC

It is Canva’s largest backer, but the venture capital fund has backed a host of Aussie start-up successes and has revealed it has turned $1.3b into far more. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

Insight Partners goes early with Relevance AI’s $US3m raise

Insight Partners has made its earliest investment on record in the region, coming on as the lead investor in local start-up Relevance AI’s $US3 million round. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

Atlassian’s $546m carbon-conscious building

While the tech firm is happy to build an expensive low-emissions office tower, it’s a harder equation for developers more constrained by commercial realities. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

Australia's largest bank (CBA) drives stake in crypto ground for banks

CBA boss Matt Comyn urged financial regulators to step up and accept digital currencies, while crypto players responded cautiously to the bank’s moves. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

CBA to add crypto to its banking app

The Commonwealth Bank’s move marks a coming of age for digital currencies, seen by some investors as hedges against decades of central bank profligacy. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

Tesla big battery in SA welched on vital services: AER

The energy regulator is suing the company that owns the big battery for failing to deliver crucial grid stability services between July and November 2019. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

Why Tim Cook thinks Australia is a perfect tech breeding ground

In his first sit-down interview with Australian media, the Apple CEO explains why the ACCC is on his radar and why he still reads hundreds of customer emails every day. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast

A big report by the world’s scientists will predict global temperatures could rise beyond 1.5 degrees by early next decade, far earlier than expected. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

“The holy Grail for Hydro” 40 – 70 GW

Australia’s richest man, Andrew Forrest, has committed Fortescue to the world’s biggest hydro project to make the iron ore miner a global force in green energy. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

ACloudGuru Acquired by Pluralsight for $2B

A Cloud Guru, which provides online cloud computing training programs and was founded by two brothers, has been acquired by US company Pluralsight. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 2 years ago

VW’s fake ‘Voltswagen’ statement could land them in trouble with regulators

The company confirmed its brand name change had been a pre-April Fool’s Day joke, but the Securities and Exchange Commission may not see the funny side. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Effects of cyber attack on Nine set to linger

While the attack on Nine Entertainment’s North Sydney headquarters has the appearance of ransomware, it has not received any demands. The reason for the attack is also unclear. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Billionaire shipping magnate Edward Heerema punished his €100m scammers (2018)

When the owner of the world's biggest ship was conned out of €100 million, he set out for retribution. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Google blocks Australian news in 'experiment'

Google is tweaking its search and news algorithm to bury links from Australian media outlets such as the Financial Review and Sydney Morning Herald for some users. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Millennials aren't socialists they're just poorer than their parents

Anyone who is genuinely interested in why young people are moving to the left should look at the pyramid of credit that underpins the Australian economy. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Behind the rise of activist short sellers (2018)

Activist shorts are a company's worst nightmare and they are almost always right. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

The key to tech infrastructure renewal is avoiding customisation

Spending $350 million on a new operating system is gutsy, given the history of major IT projects blowing up. But Orica's Alberton Calderon has done this three times. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Debt-trap diplomacy: Papua New Guinea wants Huawei loan cancelled

The data centre, built in such a way that PNG's data could be spied on, has fallen into disrepair and may need to be shut down. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Facebook news threat risks 'big stick' tax hit

The Morrison government won't bow to Facebook's 'heavy-handed' attempts to block ground-breaking reforms of Big Tech platforms, with draft legislation being readied in case they don't accept a mandatory code of conduct. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Burnout is booming at the home office

As the coronavirus pandemic stretches on and boundaries between work and home continue to blur, more Australian workers are suffering from stress. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Huawei data centre built to spy on Papua New Guinea

Major cyber security flaws were found in the Beijing-funded data centre in Port Moresby, where government files could be easily stolen without detection. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Atlassian lets its staff stay at home forever

The Australian tech giant says it will 'measure outcomes, not clock hours' and hire talent from anywhere in the world, as it commits to a permanently flexible workforce. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Did a Chinese hack kill Canada’s greatest tech company?

Nortel was once a leader in wireless technology and accounted for 35 per cent of the Toronto stock exchange index. Then came a hack and the rise of Huawei. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Australian Media lose Facebook defamation case, mull appeal

Australia's leading media outlets are considering an appeal to the High Court after a ruling that publishers can be sued for comments on their Facebook pages. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Covid 19 Vaccine Predictions

Outspoken immunologist Peter Doherty believes scientists could have a coronavirus vaccine ready by September. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 3 years ago

Neo bank Xinja raises $433m in fresh equity from Middle East

Emirates' World Investments has written the largest cheque ever received by an Australian start-up seeking to take on the major banks. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 4 years ago

Turns out Piketty was right: inequality in owning companies will worsen

The yawning discrepancy in growth rates, allied to the increased concentration of direct ownership in the stock market, still sends a strong message about the real economy and the way money is allocated. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 4 years ago

Harry Potter helped end Laos' ban on the letter R

Laos' government dropped the letter R sound from the alphabet, calling it a symbol of foreign influence.The widening reach of the internet is changing that. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 4 years ago

Newcastle tech firm scores $28m from Silicon Valley giant

Pegasus has flown under the radar for years, but its profitability and client roster has helped it lock in big bucks. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 4 years ago

Beijing orders state offices to replace foreign PCS and software

The directive is the first publicly-known instruction with specific targets given to Chinese buyers to switch to domestic technology vendors, and echoes efforts by Washington to curb the use of Chinese technology in the US and its allies. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 4 years ago

Satya Nadella Added $850b to Microsoft

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella is responsible for the most value creating corporate transformation of the 21st century due to sweeping cultural and strategic changes at a company regulators once tried to break-up. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 4 years ago

Merkel urges EU to seize control of data from US tech titans

The German chancellor said the EU should claim 'digital sovereignty' by developing its own platform to manage data and reduce its reliance on the US-based cloud services run by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 4 years ago

The Google VIP party that became a joke

How many jet-set celebs does it take to fix global warming? Perhaps Prince Harry went shoeless to decrease the size of his footprint? | Continue reading


@afr.com | 4 years ago

Silicon Valley diet or eating disorder?

From keto and fasting to 5:2 and hundreds of supplements, the tech world's food “bio-hacking” is just another word for disordered eating. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 5 years ago

Bright lights, big country at the Parrtjima festival

Nor can many light festivals claim the sheer scale of this10-night program of arts and culture in Australia's red centre. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 5 years ago

Kogan sales numbers show iPhone tipping point

Australians have joined the Chinese in falling out of love with the Apple iPhone judging from the latest sales data released by online retailer Kogan.com. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 5 years ago

Say goodbye to the cold, hard cash in your pocket (AU)

The end of cash is very near. But you will still have to be disciplined about spending it. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 5 years ago

A woman is suing Apple because its ads didn't show the iPhone XS had a notch

In a legal complaint filed on Friday this woman said she did not know the iPhone XS had a notch when she pre-ordered the phone because of the marketing images. | Continue reading


@afr.com | 5 years ago