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Joseph LamAudience growth producer

Joseph Lam is an audience producer, responsible for growing readership and amplifying The Australian’s journalism across multiple platforms. Based in Sydney, he has previously been the masthead’s technology journalist, general news reporter and digital producer. Joe is from Central Queensland and joined the national daily in 2019, having trained as a combat engineer in the ADF. Follow his work on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook @editorialjoe

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spamTechnology

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Outdoor Supacentre fined for spamming

The 4WD and camping store Outdoor Supacentre is the latest business to be found guilty of e-marketing to consumers without consent.

Joseph Lam

scamsTechnology

Hackers using laptop computers to penetrate security systems to steal big data from the server room; scammers generic fraud cyber

Hackers chasing Australians with higher credit score

A credit check provider has established a link between Australians with higher credit scores and the likelihood of a breach.

Joseph Lam

Technology

AI Learning and Artificial Intelligence Concept - Icon Graphic Interface showing computer, machine thinking and AI Artificial Intelligence of Digital Robotic Devices.

Talent is ‘the biggest hurdle’ for AI

For Australian tech leaders and businesses, one of the biggest barriers to mass adoption of AI is finding people with the skills to introduce it.

Joseph Lam

GamingTechnology

View of a girl (8-10) playing a video game with her grandmother. Generic image.

Women over 50 are the new gamers

Australia’s video game industry brought in $345.5m in revenue last year and older women are driving major change across the industry.

Joseph Lam

The DealThe Deal

Angry young woman with megaphone shouting at stressed scared man blown away by wave of alphabet letters. Istock

Don’t call them Karen, but do call them out

Middle-aged, entitled and not willing to back down, how do you deal with a person who seems to enjoy making your life harder than it needs to be?

Joseph Lam

exclusiveTechnology

Crowd funding a consistent $70m market

Australia had access to an investment category that poured a consistent $70m into growing businesses for the past two years but not enough start-ups are taking a run at the money.

Joseph Lam

scamsTechnology

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Explosion of scams forces big companies to crowdsource

Companies rely so much on customers to report scam texts and messages that they’re now developing apps, platforms and new features dedicated to self-reporting.

Joseph Lam

lay-offsTechnology

(FILES) In this file photo Google's offices stand in downtown Manhattan on October 20, 2020 in New York City. - Employees at Google and other units of parent firm Alphabet announced the creation January 4, 2021 of a union, aiming for a bigger role in company decisions in a move which steps up the activism brewing in Silicon Valley giants. The Alphabet Workers Union, affiliated with the Communications Workers of America, aims to represent well-compensated tech workers as well as temporary workers and contractors, according to a statement. (Photo by SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Google ditching Appen big ‘wake up call’, union warns

At least 2000 workers in the US are expected to be hit by Google’s abrupt termination of multimillion-dollar contracts with local technology group Appen.

Joseph Lam

telcoTechnology

Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin speaks during an inquiry into a national outage of the Optus network at Parliament House in Canberra, Friday, November 17, 2023. The November 8 outage left more than 10 million Australian individuals and businesses unable to make calls, access the internet or complete transactions for 12-hours. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

2700 couldn’t call triple-0 amid outage: Optus

More than 10 times the original number of Optus customers reported were unable to reach emergency services amid a national outage in November last year.

Joseph Lam

explainerTechnology

Medibank cyber hack. Foreign Minister Penny Wong confirmed cyber-criminal Aleksandr Ermakov had been linked to the attack. Picture: DFAT

What the government’s sanctions on Russian hacker mean

The Albanese government has publicly named and placed financial sanctions on a Russian national who was found to play a role in the Medibank hack. Here’s what it means.

Joseph Lam and Jared Lynch

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