After four years of a brutal crackdown that has cost them billions,Jack Ma and the rest of China’s best and brightest have been welcomed back into the fold by Xi Jinping. The message is clear.
Elon Musk’s Starlink network is winning Australian customers,but Communications Minister Michelle Rowland says NBN will remain cheaper and get faster.
A US class action had alleged the tech giant was using virtual assistant Siri’s microphone to record conversations without users’ knowledge.
The Biden administration has used antitrust legislation to target the technology giants,even seeking to break up Google. Trump’s nominees to key posts overseeing the tech sector won’t be much friendlier.
The prospect of Musk doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin – or any authoritarian leader – would be malign influence at a whole other level.
Far-right groups like the Proud Boys are revving people up to fight should Trump lose,with some promising “to get you trained and ready for election day”.
As the pace of technological change accelerates,bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell predicts ever more frequent disruption.
In an emotional account from a wheelchair,a victim says she “cannot remain silent any more”. But everything about the video is made up by a troll army called Storm-1516.
The Global Report on the State of the Democracy,which has measured democratic performance in 158 countries since 1975,is out. It has some good news too.
Our home-grown election system is the envy of the Western world. Will it be enough to inoculate us from AI,fake news and other threats to our way of life?