Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size Rumours of cost-cutting measures at the News Corp papers have been kicking around for some time now, and at a briefing for staff at The Australian on Wednesday, editor Michelle Gunn can't have filled many with confidence.(the … | Continue reading
What you say and do on social media can affect your employment; it can prevent you from getting hired, stall career progression and may even get you fired. Is this fair – or an invasion of privacy? | Continue reading
Monash University has teamed up with former Age editor-in-chief Andrew Jaspan to launch an academic wire agency that will deliver content based on expert research. | Continue reading
MPs and the privacy watchdog say authorities have breached public trust. | Continue reading
It’s known as ‘Havana syndrome’, a mystery illness hitting diplomats and spies. But is it an attack or something else? | Continue reading
The activists were charged with property damage and ordered to pay $2000 for writing slogans criticising oil and gas giant Woodside with chalk paint on a pedestrian bridge. | Continue reading
Cafes around the world have been left with a stark choice with tightening supplies having driven arabica bean prices to seven-year highs. | Continue reading
Emergency services have issued a toxic smoke warning after a fire erupted during testing of Victoria’s new Tesla Big Battery, the biggest lithium-ion battery in the country. | Continue reading
Ashleigh Petrie’s engagement sparked front-page news. Her tragic death only weeks later left her loved ones shattered – and searching for clues as to how and why her life unravelled. | Continue reading
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says organised crime has been dealt a heavy blow after a cross-border law enforcement operation yielded mass raids and arrests using intelligence from a compromised encrypted app. | Continue reading
More than 40 of the 150 passengers booked on a repatriation flight from India have tested positive for coronavirus before boarding the plane, meaning almost half won’t be able to fly. | Continue reading
Victoria’s contact tracing system had a hiccup in the crucial days before the state was placed into lockdown last month. | Continue reading
If Google really is considering making its search engine unavailable to Australians, what alternatives are there? We put their rivals to the test. | Continue reading
Google Australia's managing director told a Senate inquiry the company would have "no real choice" but to shut down Google Search in Australia if the laws passed. | Continue reading
While some QAnon disciples gave way to doubt as Trump's term ended, others doubled down on blind belief or strained to see new coded messages in the Inauguration Day’s events. | Continue reading
Google Australia boss Melanie Silva says proposed laws to make the tech giant pay for news content would drastically change the experience for its users. | Continue reading
Australian special forces soldiers tortured and executed prisoners in Afghanistan, according to an extraordinary report that kicked off the war-crimes inquiry. | Continue reading
Protective services officers and WorkSafe inspectors could be enlisted to help enforce lockdown orders under a bill that would allow authorities to detain people considered a risk of negligently spreading COVID-19. | Continue reading
For some time now I've been convinced the technological revolution is partly geared towards killing off society under the guise of convenience. | Continue reading
The unsigned editorial from The Lancet concluded that Trump should be replaced with a president who "will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics". | Continue reading
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will impose a mandatory code on firms like Google and Facebook after losing faith in their work to reimburse Australian media companies for news and other content. | Continue reading
The boss of messaging service Slack says the coronavirus pandemic has hastened the demise of work email, as workers ditch their cubicles for the safety of home. | Continue reading
"We can't allow foreign state-owned enterprises and their business fronts to use COVID-19's economic carnage as a gateway to swoop distressed businesses and assets," one MP said. | Continue reading
Google will be compelled to hand over data to a Melbourne dentist to help identify the person behind a negative online review of his business after a Federal Court ruling. | Continue reading
Apple's updates were designed to keep old devices working longer, but a European consumer watchdog says it should have been more transparent. | Continue reading
A private security company that provided round-the-clock sniffer dogs to a secretive drug rehabilitation facility linked to the Church of Scientology is suing over more than $150,000 in unpaid debts. | Continue reading
Three people have died after a C-130 water tanker plane crashed while battling a fire in southern NSW on Thursday. | Continue reading
A team of international scientists working with a Melbourne barista claim to have designed a scientifically perfect cup of coffee. | Continue reading
In a striking victory for the ACCC against online giant Trivago, the Australian Federal Court has found the hotel aggregator engaged in misleading conduct and made false representations to consumers. | Continue reading
VicForests has been given approval to clear-fell large swathes of land next to the popular Beeripmo hiking track in the Mt Cole state forest. | Continue reading
Police are not treating any of the major Victorian fires as suspicious, amid what a university researcher called a social media "disinformation campaign" claiming arsonists were at fault. | Continue reading
The man who created a firestorm of controversy when he claimed to be a defecting spy has allegedly been threatened and offered inducements to retract his story ahead of the crucial Taiwanese election. | Continue reading
Forest fuel levels have climbed over the past 30 years because of "misguided green ideology", vested interests, political failure and mismanagement, creating a massive bushfire threat, a former CSIRO bushfire scientist has warned. | Continue reading
The mineral was likely forged in the molten core of an ancient planet long since destroyed. | Continue reading
The "iFace" system uses biometric software to identify suspects by comparing still images against Victoria Police’s mugshot database of known offenders. | Continue reading
Following the New York Times report, the app became temporarily unavailable in Google and Apple stores, purportedly due to a "technical issue". | Continue reading
Staring at his own face in a false passport triggered something in Wang Liqiang. After five years undercover he risked losing himself. So he decided to leave. | Continue reading
Wang “William” Liqiang is the first Chinese operative to ever blow his cover and he has taken his story to ASIO. | Continue reading
The founders of travel platform Rome2rio are on track to collect a 'life changing' sum after offloading the startup to UK-based booking platform Omio. | Continue reading
Deaths that arise from mental and physical injury will be covered under new workplace manslaughter laws in Victoria. But the laws could bring unintended consequences, industry groups say. | Continue reading
PayPal Australia must appoint an external auditor to examine "ongoing concerns" over its compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws, says Austrac. | Continue reading
The driver’s licences of all Victorians will be uploaded to a national facial recognition database, in what lawyers have warned could lead to privacy and security breaches. | Continue reading
Cloud computing training startup A Cloud Guru has educated more than 1 million students as it takes on a "broken" university system. | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy Fold is back on sale in its home market of South Korea, following a months-long delay caused by the discovery of a severe defect in the original design. | Continue reading
State government committed a massive privacy breach by exposing the travel data of millions of Victorians spanning a three-year period, a watchdog has found. | Continue reading
Encryption laws are leading to IT companies withdrawing from Australia while storing data in Russia and China, a government contractor told a parliamentary inquiry. | Continue reading
The food delivery arm of Uber has previously come under fire for unfairly disadvantaging restaurants. | Continue reading
Netflix co-founder and innovator Marc Randolph spoke in Brisbane on Monday about the journey from one small idea to a streaming giant that has disrupted the technology scene. | Continue reading