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Rob DenBleyker (left), Kris Wilson (centre) and Adam Nusrallah. Cyanide & Happiness are coming to Oz Comic-Con for the first time.

Edgy or offensive? How these early-2000s internet creators kept webcomics alive

Webcomics are well past their peak, but Cyanide & Happiness is still deep in the game. Here’s how it has managed to keep up with the non-stop beast that is the internet.

  • Nell Geraets

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Elon Musk is inescapable in tech.

I’ve spent time with tech oligarchs – you have no idea just how weird they are

Like the rocket ships Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are shovelling money into, the tech being prioritised by Silicon Valley’s billionaires isn’t designed to save us. It’s meant to save them.

  • Cory Alpert
Ivanka Trump, daughter and adviser to President Donald Trump, waves to supporters during a campaign event in November 2020.

From mob wife to MAGA woman: TikTok trends are losing steam

Whatever TikTok’s fate in the US, its fashion fads have waned. What has replaced them is much more difficult for brands to navigate.

  • Andrea Felsted
The Paragon on Katoomba Street.

How the Paragon, the derelict grand dame of the Blue Mountains, could be saved

The owner of the Paragon Cafe in Katoomba has been ordered to secure the site, hire a heritage architect and detail what repairs need to be done.

  • Julie Power

Mark Zuckerberg has a creepy new way to invade your privacy

The new Meta app promises to be a more “personalised” form of AI. It is really a more disturbing version of ChatGPT.

  • Geoffrey A. Fowler
Many are describing Musk’s assault on the federal bureaucracy as a coup, which isn’t quite right. Trump was, alas, elected, and delegated outsize power to Musk voluntarily.

Donald Trump is proving disastrous for big tech

Three months in and the bosses of America’s most valuable firms have little to show for all their toadying.

  • The Economist
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NewsMax Australia recently rebranded after striking a licensing agreement with the American news network with the same name, and is yet to officially launch its live-streaming news channel.

Right-wing media platform temporarily switched off by Facebook

The right-wing media start-up account, which was offline for more than a day, was reinstated on Thursday, with Facebook owner Meta saying it was deactivated as an error.

  • Calum Jaspan
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On TikTok, there’s only one winner from Trump’s tariff death spiral with China

First came the AI-generated videos depicting Americans working in sweatshops. Since then, it’s been open slather, gifting Beijing a PR win.

  • Lisa Visentin
Facebook said it has deployed a combination of technologies to restrict news content.

Apple and Meta hit with €700 million fines in Europe under new digital rules

European Union watchdogs just fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros in a move that could inflame trade tensions with the US.

  • Kelvin Chan
Parent WhatsApp groups are renowned for becoming hotbeds of gossip and bullying.

‘Diabolically bad’: When parents’ school WhatsApp groups turn toxic

Gossip and bullying pile-ons are turning parents’ WhatsApp groups into a battleground, and schools are being urged to fight back.

  • Nicole Precel

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