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Senator’s ‘disgusting’ slurs spark fury

An Australian senator who posted a foul-mouthed social media tirade full of derogatory slurs says he has no plans to apologise.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos September 10, 2024: Snapchat , Instagram, YouTube, Roblox and tik tok and X (Twitter). The Albanese government says it will introduce legislation to enforce age restrictions on social media before the next federal election, but is still mulling over what that age it should be restricted to. Picture: NewsWire / Aaron Francis

‘Very wrong’: Dire warning on crackdown

New laws to crack down on misinformation have been given a scathing review by a leading constitutional lawyer.

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Hackers are targetting people who Google six words. Picture: iStock

Don’t type these six words in Google

Hackers have dreamed up a new way to target Australians who are typing six very specific words into a search engine.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos September 19, 2024: Social media apps on phone. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short

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Australia unites on social media ban

All state and territory leaders have agreed to Anthony Albanese’s plan to ban social media for children under the age of 16 in a world first.

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Traits of Aussie men attracted to kids

A landmark report into child sexual abuse has made for sobering reading – as the number of Aussie men attracted to kids is revealed.

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An Optus customer has accused the telco of charging her extortionate fees for services she never used.

Optus slugs Aussie $1600 in two minutes

An Optus customer has accused the telco of charging her extortionate fees for services she never used – just two minutes after she touched down in London.

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SpaceX, X (formerly known as Twitter), and Tesla CEO Elon Musk reacts during the UK Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, in central England, on November 1, 2023. (Photo by Leon Neal / POOL / AFP)

‘Hideous’: White House slams Elon Musk

After supporting a conspiracy theory on X, the White House has responded to the billionaire.

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos June 21, 2021: A generic picture of an Optus store in Adelaide. Major telco companies are slapping Australians with higher fees and plans. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has unveiled new research indicating Telstra, Vodafone and Optus have all inflated the cost of plans since July last year: NCA NewsWire / David Mariuz

Dire legal issue looming over Optus

A legal expert has outlined why Optus could face more legal woes after a nationwide outage crippled the country, including the most vital health services.

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IT worker loses $150k to cunning scam

A young Aussie has shared how he lost his and his parents’ savings to a job scam, despite being trained in cybersecurity.

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Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin ( in cream) being escorted by AFP at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: Sky News

‘Don’t push me’: Chaos as Optus CEO flees

The embattled boss of Optus fled Parliament flanked by members of the AFP who pushed a journalist trying to ask questions of the chief executive.

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Influencers promote bin Laden’s propaganda

The text of an inflammatory “letter to America” from Osama bin Laden has gone viral on TikTok and drawn praise from young users.

The port operations of DP World are seen at Port Botany, in Sydney, Thursday, July 11, 2019. Sydney DP World employees will strike to fight against automation, outsourcing and cuts to income protection insurance this Thursday and Friday as part of a series of 48 to 96 hour work stoppages planned for container terminals run by Australia's largest stevedore in Sydney, Fremantle, Brisbane, and Melbourne. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

DP World Australia delayed ‘critical’ fix

DP World Australia did not follow cyber security advice to fix a “critical” exploit that shut down four major ports, disrupting 30,000 containers.

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Be careful when selecting your passwords.

Change your password if it’s on this list

Dark web data has revealed Australia’s most common passwords, and many can be hacked in less than a second.

An illuminated sign is displayed in the window of an outlet for the Australian communications company Optus in Sydney on November 9, 2023. Australia's government on November 9 launched an investigation into a nationwide communications outage that crippled phone lines and severed internet access for 10 million customers countrywide. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Optus parent breaks silence on outage

The parent company behind Optus has denied responsibility for the crippling outage, one day before CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin fronts a Senate hearing into the failure.

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