The prevailing human reaction to the idea of artificial intelligence has always been fear, revealed in the way film has portrayed our increasingly important relationship with AI over the years.
There are various methods for estimating or verifying an online user’s age, none of them foolproof. Importantly, is this the social media future we want?
Supporting communities in building and maintaining infrastructure provides life-changing benefits.
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The internet is increasingly necessary to participate in everyday life. Empowering communities to build and maintain their own broadband networks can provide much-needed access.
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Is most of the content on the internet fake? Here’s what the dead internet theory really means – and why we should be warier of how we’re manipulated for profit and political gain.
A new parliamentary committee will look into how social media operates in Australia, including how children access it. Regulating the industry won’t be easy.
A pile of characters removed from the Twitter headquarters sign in 2023.
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Using Australian laws to force a foreign-owned platform to take down content globally sets a risky precedent – should we allow all countries to impose their laws on the internet?
Special ships lay data cables across the world’s oceans.
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Your data privacy is under threat from hackers, data brokers and big tech. Here’s what you can do about it. Step 1 is to get your colleagues, friends and family on board.
Is it avocado toast or high interest rates that have prevented so many young people from buying homes?
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Granger, who died in December 2023, is credited with making avocado toast fashionable. Little did he know that his lasting legacy would inspire a meme that symbolized generational tension.
Both homes and businesses in rural areas struggled with digital connectivity during the pandemic.
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It’s the fourth most popular website in the world, but our new study shows toxic commentary can still thrive on Wikipedia. There’s a lot at stake if too many editors are driven away.
The padlock icon which appears in most internet browser address bars.
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The padlock symbol simply means that the data being sent between the web server and the user’s computer is encrypted and cannot be read by others. But many people don’t know that.
The Biden administration set the amounts of federal funding each state will receive to expand access to broadband internet.
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Every state is poised to receive a large amount of federal money to expand broadband access, but they have a lot of work to do to meet the government’s requirements for distributing it.
Optus says the unprecedented outage last week was caused by a ‘routine software upgrade’. An expert explains why this points to more serious problems with the network.
Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Deputy Dean Research at Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne