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Rally & march for the Free Julian Assange on his 51st Birthday at the State library of Victoria. Picture: Tony Gough

Surprise reason for Assange rally

Supporters of Julian Assange marched through Melbourne as the WikiLeaks founder spent yet another important date in prison.

Netflix crashes after Stranger Things release

Netflix crashes after Stranger Things release

Friday night plans have been thrown off for millions of people after Netflix crashed following the release of Stranger Things’ latest instalment.

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Cruel way drug dealers are using jobseekers

Authorities are warning unsuspecting jobseekers of social media ads conning people into acting as couriers for international drug traffickers.

Milkrun is flipping the grocery game on its head with 10-minute delivery. Picture: Supplied.

Grocery app’s loss per order revealed

An Australian delivery app based in two major cities has announced how much money it loses per order amid current economic headwinds.

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Doctor’s ‘utterly unacceptable’ photos

A doctor posted gory images of dead people online, including babies and women, alongside offensive comments.

‘Creepy’: Worst fears for online data sharing

‘Creepy’: Worst fears for online data sharing

New research has revealed our worst fears about sharing personal information with government and businesses online.

Social media hackers target Brisbane entrepreneur. Picture: Supplied/Instagram.

Dirty tactic used by Instagram hackers

Overseas Instagram hackers have swindled more than $20,000 from local Queensland mothers using one dirty tactic.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 07: Shoppers walk around Pitt Street Mall on June 07, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. The Reserve Bank of Australia today raised the cash rate by 0.5% to 0.85%. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Chilling way shops track your every move

Big businesses have found a genius but truly terrifying way to monitor what you’re doing – and it’s all to do with your phone.

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Sex act getting out of control

Sex act getting out of control

An insidious sex act carried out by Aussie teens using TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram has more than doubled in the past year.

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 19, 2017 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London. - Assange was on January 24, 2022 given permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court against a decision to extradite him to the United States. The High Court in London approved a bid by the publisher's lawyers to take the case to the country's highest court on

Albo urged to stop Assange ‘madness’

Anthony Albanese has been urged to call up Joe Biden and sort out the “madness” of the US’ plans to extradite Julian Assange.

Emily Yang, who goes under the online moniker pplpleasr, went from being unemployed to one of the biggest NFT artists in the digital space. Picture: Supplied.

Decision that made unemployed animator $500k

After rounds and rounds of job interviews, Emily Yang made a decision that changed her life and made her one of the biggest names in the NFT space.

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‘Gaslighting’: Insta changes slammed

Major changes introduced to Instagram in Australia will “gaslight” users, a major digital advocacy group has warned.

Billionaires’ bizarre act after crypto loss

Billionaires’ bizarre act after crypto loss

Just days after announcing staff cuts amid a spiralling cryptocurrency crash, billionaire twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have gone wild.

TikTok star’s tragic final video

TikTok star’s tragic final video

A 19-year-old TikTok star has been found dead just hours after uploading a video predicting that he would die young.

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Dirty tactic used by ‘sextortinist’

Authorities have warned young Australians against internet scammers who are tricking them into sending sexually explicit photos and videos.

Generic crime: Queensland police crime scene tape. Picture: QPS.

71yo man paid $400k to watch child sex

A 71-year-old man paid more than $440,000 to sexually abuse overseas children via a webcam. WARNING: Graphic content

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MAY 25, 2022: Generic telecommunications images. Telstra retail shop on Bourke Street in Melbourne. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

What angers telco customers the most

Australians are getting angrier at their telco providers, with one company drawing an especially large number of complaints.

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How to spot ‘fake news’ this election

With the election just two sleeps away, new data reveals how many Australians are confident about identifying “fake news”.

‘Watch it burn’: Crypto wiped in horror crash

‘Watch it burn’: Crypto wiped in horror crash

Crypto investors panicked on Thursday as the value of cryptocurrencies including bitcoin plunged, with some saying they would lose their homes as a result.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 4, 2020: Two men pictured coming out of the Lous Vuitton store on George Street in the Sydney CBD.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

Proof men are wrong about women

It’s an age-old stereotype about the differences between men and women, but new research has busted the myth.

DAILY TELEGRAPH: NOVEMBER 17, 2021: A phone pictured with two bars on 3g at their home in The Ponds in the Blacktown City council area. The Ponds is one of Sydney's fastest growing metropolitan areas with no shortage of schools, hospitals, and shops -- but residents in The Ponds still can't take phone calls in their homesPicture: Damian Shaw

‘Significant stress’: $200k fine for calls

An online retailer has copped a whopping fine for spamming customers, some of whom suffered “significant stress” as a result.

Part of an image hackers posted for the Australian Security Brokers Facebook page. Picture: Supplied/Facebook

Hackers’ shock Facebook porno dump

In a disturbing attack, scammers have hacked into the Facebook pages of multiple Australian businesses and uploaded pornographic content.

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Truth about viral cop video

The true story behind a viral video of a top cop dropping a C-bomb during a press conference has been revealed.

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Horrendously cringe election video emerges

Controversial Liberal candidate Katherine Deves has featured in an awkward and “priceless” clip with a band of her supporters.

(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 05, 2018 Alex Jones of InfoWars talks to reporters outside a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing concerning foreign influence operations' use of social media platforms, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. - Alex Jones, the US conspiracy theorist who faces multiple defamation lawsuits by parents of victims of a massacre that he called a hoax, has declared bankruptcy for his far-right website Infowars, documents seen April 18, 2022 showed. (Photo by Drew Angerer / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Conspiracy site Infowars files for bankruptcy

Prominent US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has declared bankruptcy for his far-right website Infowars, documents seen Monday showed.

Staff told jobs are fake in Zoom meeting

Staff told jobs are fake in Zoom meeting

Staff at a design agency made a shocking discovery that they work for a company that does not exist.

This mind-bending illusion promises to show you what it's like to hallucinate. Picture: YouTube

Optical illusion ‘is like a hallucination’

It promises to provide a “full visual hallucination” and turns your world into a warped wonderland – but don’t worry, it wears off quickly.

Caption: The Queensland Police Service has been caught out in an embarrassing blunder after an image of Hitler was used in a domestic violence online training module. Picture: Supplied/Queensland Police

‘Broken’: Qld police slammed over Hitler pic

Queensland Police has been torn to shreds after images of Adolf Hitler were found in online domestic violence training.

Inside teens’ craziest TikTok challenges

Inside teens’ craziest TikTok challenges

Aussie teenagers are being hospitalised and putting themselves at risk through a raft of increasingly bizarre TikTok trends.

Optical illusion of sunset pic divides internet

Optical illusion of sunset pic divides internet

Online users have been left baffled by an optical illusion of a man taking a photo of a sunset – dividing viewers over which way he is facing.

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