Google’s Pixel 9 Pro approaches AI overload,but it’s still a fantastic phone
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Phones

Google’s Pixel 9 Pro approaches AI overload,but it’s still a fantastic phone

As well as providing brilliant hardware,the best version of Android and fantastic cameras,the latest Pixel introduces a raft of generative AI.

  • byTim Biggs

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Google adds a foldable,smaller Pro model to its Pixel smartphone line-up

Google adds a foldable,smaller Pro model to its Pixel smartphone line-up

The Pixel 9 is joined by three Pro versions,as the web giant also unveils new watches and earbuds.

  • byTim Biggs
Google a ‘monopoly’:a judgment that will reverberate in Australia

Google a ‘monopoly’:a judgment that will reverberate in Australia

Rod Sims led Australia’s charge against big tech. He calls this landmark court ruling “really quite incredible”.

  • byDavid Swan
Is the AI bubble about to burst?
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AI

Is the AI bubble about to burst?

As the AI arms race rages,one deal has likely altered Australia’s trajectory in one fell swoop.

  • byDavid Swan
Social media levy on the cards in escalation of news dispute
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Social media

Social media levy on the cards in escalation of news dispute

Smaller outlets like The Daily Aus and Broadsheet worry Meta will follow through on a threat,first reported in this masthead,to block all news content from Facebook and Instagram.

  • byPaul Sakkal
$1.1 trillion wipeout:Wall Street just got hit with a reality check

$1.1 trillion wipeout:Wall Street just got hit with a reality check

Wall Street has been riding an AI wave,but it just recorded its worst day since 2022 after investors were spooked by results from two of the world’s biggest companies.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
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‘Wilful blindness’:Big fines for tech giants that ignore abuse material

‘Wilful blindness’:Big fines for tech giants that ignore abuse material

Companies such as Apple,Microsoft,Google and Meta face fines of almost $800,000 a day if they don’t come clean on their progress in combating child exploitation and sex abuse material on their platforms.

  • byAngus Thompson
Massive outage shows the vulnerability of the global tech ecosystem

Massive outage shows the vulnerability of the global tech ecosystem

The CrowdStrike episode is chilling because it highlights how a single,flawed update from a trusted source can cause large parts of the global system to fail.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
Facebook,Instagram are using your data – and you can’t opt out
Analysis
AI

Facebook,Instagram are using your data – and you can’t opt out

If you’re one of the millions of Australians using Facebook or Instagram,Meta is using your data to train its AI – and unlike people in the European Union,you can’t stop them.

  • byDavid Swan
Throwing the passengers out with the bathwater
Opinion
Column 8

Throwing the passengers out with the bathwater

While chewing the fat with Chewie.

‘I have to live with it’:The people trying to hide from Google
Investigation
Web culture

‘I have to live with it’:The people trying to hide from Google

Australians are paying big money to online reputation management experts to manipulate search engines and remove content – but with mixed success.

  • byAndrew Hornery