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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 6, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Communications, Anika Wells meet with Florence (Flossie) Brodribb, Romany Brodribb (Flossie's mum), Dr Lila Landowski, Neuroscientist, Menzies Research Institute Tasmania at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

‘Inspiring’: PM praises Flossie’s example

Anthony Albanese has showed off a new friendship bracelet from Aussie student Flossie, who backs the PM’s impending ban on social media.

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A major Optus outage affecting more than 34,000 mobile services across the Hunter Valley has been linked to malicious damage to a communications tower in Hexham. Photo: Optus

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Police probe ‘malicious’ Optus outage

Police are investigating malicious damage caused to an Optus tower that left thousands of residents without mobile service and some triple-0 calls potentially affected.

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‘Scary’: Collingwood stars open up about social media trolls

AFL star Brayden Maynard reveals the most common reason why social media trolls target him as he and teammate Tom Mitchell make a heartfelt pledge after an unthinkable tragedy.

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What Jessica Mauboy and Adam Gilchrist have in common

Big names from the world of entertainment, sport, politics and business have pledged support for a new national initiative designed to save Australian lives.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - October 6, 2025: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua New Guinea counterpart James Marape hold a press conference after signing the Pukpuk Treaty at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Albanese’s big blow to tech titans

Labor is turning the heat up on the Silicon Valley tech titans behind data-ravenous artificial intelligence models.

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - October 6, 2025: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua New Guinea counterpart James Marape hold a press conference after signing the Pukpuk Treaty at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Albanese’s big blow to tech titans

Labor is turning the heat up on the Silicon Valley tech titans behind data-ravenous artificial intelligence models.

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FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Trump set to sign TikTok deal with China

After months of wrangling – and in the face of a growing trade war – Donald Trump is preparing to sign of on a deal to wrest control of TikTok US from China.

Amazon’s chief technologist has promised Australia won’t be left behind in the company’s global AI revolution, as it debuts groundbreaking new operational systems designed to revolutionise the way workers work.

Inside Amazon’s global AI revolution

Tech giant Amazon has unveiled ambitious plans for its robotics and AI rollout across the world – but there could be a challenge to its rollout in Australia.

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Warning for those who WFH and use Teams

An update to a popular work platform will begin “snitching” on users from December — impacting millions of Aussies and could lead to some awkward discussions.

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Australian delivery drivers could soon start using smart glasses which map out directions and package movements using AI-powered vision, as tech giant Amazon unveils an ambitious future vision of its home delivery network.

Crazy way Amazon plans to change deliveries

Amazon has unveiled the future of home delivery – and there are signs the tech could make its way to Australia in the future.

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 24: TV personality Piers Morgan arrives at BBC Broadcasting House head of his appearance on Sunday Morning on April 24, 2022, in London, England. Sophie Raworth's guests this week include Leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer,ÃÂ Conservative Party Chair, Oliver Dowden, Ned Price, U.S. State Department, and SNP Westminster Leader, Ian Blackford. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Piers Morgan: ‘Australia has it right about social media ban’

British broadcaster Piers Morgan has thrown his support behind Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s, saying “young impressionable minds” need protection.

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A close-up on an abstract design of a display, which is warning about a cyber attack. Multiple rows of hexadecimal code are interrupted by red glowing warnings and single character exclamation marks. The image can represent a variety of threats in the digital world: data theft, data leak, security breach, intrusion, etc...

Aussie uni reels from major cyber attack

From passport details and tax file numbers, to payroll figures and health information, hackers have hit an Australian university in a major cyber breach.

The redesign of one of the country’s most popular websites has sparked outrage, with users describing it as a 'sh*tshow', 'useless', 'disappointing' and 'unnecessary'. Picture: BOM

8 million Aussies hit with ‘atrocious’ sight

The redesign of one of Australia’s most popular sites has sparked outrage, with users describing it as a “sh*tshow”, “useless”, “unnecessary”.

Share prices in Alphabet have tumbled after a tweet from OpenAI.

Google loses $100 billion as rival launches

One tweet sent shares of Google’s parent company spiralling, as a rival company shakes things up in a major way.

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