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In the internet age, keeping up with changing language is impossible for most adults. Experts argue it’s a way for young people to create space for themselves.

Cloudflare chaos: Third internet outage in four weeks triggers global disruptions

A massive outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare triggered a wave of “500 Internal Server Errors” across the globe, knocking substantial portions of the web offline.

  • David Swan

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TPG Telecom chief executive Inaki Berroeta.

TPG says person dead after failed Triple Zero call

The telco says the person died in Sydney after a Samsung device was unable to connect to emergency services.

  • David Swan
Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht.

Canva unveils world-first AI model as it gears for blockbuster listing

The Sydney-based tech firm has made its biggest product launch yet as it eyes a sharemarket float within the next two years.

  • David Swan
King’s year 12 software engineering student Daniel Yang, Tyler Mitchell and James Mao.

Swapping pens for code: Welcome to the newest HSC exam

Software engineering has replaced the outdated software design and development course, and has switched to being entirely online.

  • Emily Kowal
The new rain radar on the BoM website.

The $4.1 million question: How did the BOM get its new website so wrong?

The Bureau of Meteorology claims it spent the amount on a website and app redesign as part of a broader $866 million transformation dubbed “Robust”. Users are not pleased.

  • David Swan
An AWS outage has affected websites globally.

Internet still struggling after mammoth Amazon outage

Millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa in a global outage.

  • David Swan and Daniel Lo Surdo
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (left), and Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, during a dinner with tech leaders at the White House in September.

Silicon Valley’s Trump courtship is backfiring spectacularly

Tech execs thought billion-dollar investments had bought them influence. Instead, they learnt that loyalty means nothing when the president sees political advantage elsewhere.

  • David Swan
Many of the AI tools the ATO is using to better collect revenue are now available off the shelf.

The ‘vibes’ are extremely off with Silicon Valley’s latest brain fart

We’ve learnt the hard way that we cannot trust Silicon Valley to do the right thing when left to its own devices. And that’s even more true for apps that are created by AI.

  • David Swan
Subscription traps are costing Australians hundreds of millions of dollars a year in fees for services they no longer want.

Click to cancel: How hard should it be to end a subscription?

Jumping through hoops to unsubscribe from streaming platforms, software and even gyms could be a thing of the past, with new laws on the horizon.

  • Elias Visontay
Illustration by Simon Letch

AI: Much ado about something that one day may be important

World-changing technologies such as artificial intelligence are never as wonderful as the marketing department claimed, nor as terrible as their critics feared.

  • Ross Gittins

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