Joseph Lam

Joseph Lam is a technology and property reporter at The Australian. He joined the national daily in 2019 after he cut his teeth as a freelancer across publications in Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 17, 2024: Pedestrians at Circular Quay in the Sydney CBD. The Australian Bureau of Statistics, (ABS) releases it's latest job figures tomorrow. Picture: NewsWire / John Appleyard

Firms looking to chop costs with wage cuts, lay-offs

Some 20,000 financial services and telecommunications roles have been shifted overseas as local contractors are given the flick and employers begin to cut costs.

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PrecinctsProperty

Burwood Chinatown group takes Spicetown to Sydney's Little Italy

Spicetown introduced to Sydney’s Little Italy

The creators of Burwood Chinatown have redeveloped the old Leichhardt Hotel, transforming the old venue which has been shut for eight years into an Asian-themed food precinct.

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Secrecy makes cyber hacks, worse says online security body

A new non-profit cybersecurity body wants companies hacked by ransomware gangs to share detailed reports on how they respond rather than keep their methods in commercial confidence.

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Scam prevention frameworkTechnology

Hacker stealing info and money in online scams. For Kids News story on how to protect yourself from online scams.

Regulators ‘overlap’ in scam prevention draft

The draft Scam Prevention Framework could penalise telcos for abiding by one code while breaking another, the Communications Alliance has warned.

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(FILES) Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis" in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes US government pressure on his social media platforms to take down certain Covid-19 content in 2021 was "wrong," and said he would resist similar attempts in the future, according to a letter submitted to a US congressional committee on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Meta’s slow burn on removing scams

For years Meta has ‘published the content of criminals’ via scam ads on Facebook, fleecing unsuspecting Aussies. But it says it is changing its ways – albeit slowly.

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AI revolutionProperty

Melbourne dominates new data centre projects as AI booms

Developers are looking to Melbourne to feed the boom in data centres, with a report finding nearly 75 per cent of all new projects are being built in the Victorian capital.

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digital infrastructureProperty

NBN partnership to work on blueprint for ‘smart’ communities

The NBN has teamed up with infrastructure consulting firms Urbis and Delos Delta to develop a strategy that ensures new developments have connectivity that will last well into the future.

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