The woman was trying to cancel her home insurance and sell her home so she could send money to a new boyfriend.
Madeleine Achenza
With Australians using more data than ever before across multiple devices, millions are now eligible for faster, more reliable internet.
Ellen Ransley
A Facebook whistleblower says Australia should force Meta to the negotiating table amid ongoing uncertainty about the future of news online.
The Coalition has introduced a new plan that could put offenders behind bars for up to two years for posting videos that “glorify crime”.
Ellen Ransley and Clareese Packer
Australians are scrambling to work out what’s happening as the major social media giant experiences a network outage.
The federal government has received, but is yet to release, the findings of a review into last year's Optus outage which left millions without services.
Staff Writers
Australians have been hit with a record number of fraudulent credit card purchases and withdrawals, new data has revealed.
Jack Quail
A major outage rippled across Australia in the afternoon, with the country’s largest telco scrambling to deliver a fix.
Duncan Evans
Australia’s biggest company has just made a big call on its ambitions and it could influence corporates everywhere.
Australia’s chief scientist, a retired army major general and a renowned physicist have shared their opinions on the risks of artificial intelligence.
NCA NewsWire
The TikTok app, and its 8.5 million Australian users, face an uncertain outlook with growing concerns by governments over its safety.
A leading advocacy group has called for action on the “horrifying” sentence given to a pedophile who tried to groom a mum and her two underage kids.
Blake Antrobus
A rejigged deal that will cement ties with global market darling Nvidia has lit a raging fire under the shares of Perth-based internet services provider Pentanet.
Daniel Newell
The Prime Minister has revealed whether Australia has plans to follow in the US’ footsteps after a major vote on TikTok passed a key hurdle.
Misbehaving youths could be sent out to remote camps to do manual labour under a bold proposal to curb youth crime.
Courtney Gould
The decision to walk away from local publishers would have ramifications for the entire community, Communications Minister Michele Rowland said.
One group of Australians has become the target of social media scammers fleecing tens of millions of dollars every year.
Nathan Schmidt
One state will impose extra penalties on people who post and boast about committing certain crimes on social media, in a $26.2m crackdown on youth crime.
Jessica Wang
Anthony Albanese won’t be rushing to try his hand at photoshop following the drama caused by Catherine, Princess of Wales’ editing fail.
Senator Jacqui Lambie has blasted global technology giants, like Meta, labelling them “bloody thugs” and warning of dangerous addictions among children.
Grace Baldwin
Laws to criminalise doxxing could be in place by the middle of the year as the Federal Government moves quickly to stamp out the ‘unacceptable’ practice.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
One of Optus’ senior figures has dropped a bombshell four months after a widespread outage at the telco giant disrupted the lives of millions and shattered the company’s reputation.
Australia has been warned it must ‘urgently’ investigate its next moves after the US made a major move towards banning TikTok.
The parent company behind Facebook could face a mammoth fine if found to have breached a major agreement with news publishers.
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