No compromise:Labor targets Greens in election on up to 20 bills

No compromise:Labor targets Greens in election on up to 20 bills

Labor has pulled its misinformation crackdown and won’t put forward gambling reform this week but is pushing the Greens to accept its agenda on up to 20 other bills unchanged.

  • byDavid Crowe

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‘Not good enough’:Meta probe flagged as fake Albanese makes Facebook comeback
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‘Not good enough’:Meta probe flagged as fake Albanese makes Facebook comeback

Meta said it deleted scam ads featuring the PM and targeting Australians,but within days they were back. Now the government is taking a closer look.

  • byAisha Dow
My daughter’s new principal has a superpower. Now,what was his name?
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Real life

My daughter’s new principal has a superpower. Now,what was his name?

My recall of names is hopeless. However,a mum I met at orientation has taught me a thoroughly modern way to overcome that affliction.

  • byCherie Gilmour
‘Museum of political disasters’:Truth bill dies as Greens join Coalition to block it

‘Museum of political disasters’:Truth bill dies as Greens join Coalition to block it

The Coalition called the misinformation bill an Orwellian ministry of truth,but the Greens said it was too compromised to stamp out dangerous lies and conspiracies.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Why the world’s most valuable company is set to become even more powerful
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AI

Why the world’s most valuable company is set to become even more powerful

Nvidia’s rise from obscurity to become a $5.5 trillion market-moving beast brings with it a lot of wild expectations.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
Huge fines planned for tech giants that let kids on apps

Huge fines planned for tech giants that let kids on apps

As it moves to tamp down concerns about handing over IDs,the Albanese government will on Thursday put forward a world-first bill to block younger teens from social media.

  • byPaul Sakkal
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The 101 ways Google serves up Australians to known scammers

The 101 ways Google serves up Australians to known scammers

Using the world’s biggest search platform to find information on scams can deliver victims straight into the arms of criminals.

  • byAisha Dow andCharlotte Grieve
‘Psychopaths are the best’:Confessions from inside the scam industry

‘Psychopaths are the best’:Confessions from inside the scam industry

From marketing and retention to catastrophe and recovery,the life cycle of the scam industry is breathtakingly cruel and strikingly consistent.

  • byAisha Dow
Labor MP Bronwyn Halfpenny makes an A1 recovery from her AI slip

Labor MP Bronwyn Halfpenny makes an A1 recovery from her AI slip

After some gentle teasing this week over getting her A1s and AI’s in a muddle in a speech to a tech summit,CBD acknowledges fair play to Bronwyn Halfpenny.

  • byNoel Towell
Who decides what’s true? The ‘gaping hole’ in Labor’s misinformation bill

Who decides what’s true? The ‘gaping hole’ in Labor’s misinformation bill

Constitutional law expert Anne Twomey says the proposed law has a big problem:“When it talks about what’s ‘reasonably verifiable’ as false,how do you decide?”

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos
How would a social media ban actually work?

How would a social media ban actually work?

Almost a quarter of children aged eight to 10 use social media,as do half of 13-year-olds. How would new laws banning them from apps actually keep them off?

  • byPaul Sakkal,David Swan andTim Biggs