| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.12.2024 | New Guide Empowers Australian Tech Workers to Expose Corporate Wrongdoings | The Human Rights Law Centre has released a new guide that empowers Australian tech employees to speak out against harmful company practices or products.
The guide, Technology-Related Whistleblowing, provides a summary of legally protected a... |
| 21.10.2024 | What’s on your mind: The rapid rise and risks of neurotech | Will Richards. Source: SmartCompany. article-article-body
It’s 2050; you’re sitting at home, controlling your devices with your brain. You turn on the lights, play your favourite song, and even order groceries without lifting a finger. You ... |
| 02.10.2024 | Virgin Australia says SMEs will win in proposed Qatar Airways deal | article-article-body
Virgin Australia claims Qatar Airways’ proposal to acquire 25% of the carrier would benefit small and medium-sized enterprises, in a clear challenge to other airlines targeting the lucrative business traveller market.
U... |
| 26.09.2024 | Neural Notes: Meet Jaimee, the AI companion built for women | L-R: Jaimee co-founders Sreyna Rath (CEO) and Camilla Cooke (CMO). Source: SmartCompany article-article-body
Welcome back to Neural Notes, a column where I look at some of the most interesting AI news of the week, In this edition I chat wit... |
| 20.09.2024 | Neural Notes: Is the AI agent hype just gen AI all over again? | Source: SmartCompany article-article-body
Welcome back to Neural Notes, where I look at some of the most interesting AI news of the week. In this edition: AI agents are taking over the enterprise world – with HubSpot, Salesforce and Microso... |
| 13.09.2024 | ATO Commissioner Heferen says tax agent “fairness test” goes beyond the law alone | ATO Commissioner Rob Heferen. Source: Supplied article-article-body
Australia’s tax experts must not just adhere to the law, but heightened community expectations of the profession, says Australian Taxation Commissioner (ATO) Rob Heferen.
H... |
| 23.08.2024 | The AI Accountability Shift: A New Era for Government Oversight | The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is shifting. Governments worldwide are grappling with the implications of AI technology. In Australia, a significant move is underway. Starting September 1, all federal departments must appoint ... |
| 23.08.2024 | Neural Notes: Who’s on the hook for the government’s AI crackdown? | Minister for Finance Katy Gallagher. Source: SmartCompany via AAP Image/Mick Tsikas. article-article-body
Welcome back to Neural Notes, a weekly column where I look at some of the most interesting artificial intelligence news of the week. I... |
| 19.08.2024 | The Office Australia shares release date, promises to address WFH and the ‘work family’ | Felicity Ward in a promotional image for Australia's new take on The Office. Source: Amazon Studios article-article-body
You can leave the office, but the office never really leaves you. That’s the takeaway from our first look at The Office... |
| 12.06.2024 | Smartest board advisor? Peak real estate body hires AI bot to advise agents on ethics | AN IMAGE PROVIDED BY REINSW OF ITS AI BOT BOARD ADVISER "ALICE ING". Source: REINSW via Crikey. article-article-body
A peak real estate agent body has enlisted an artificial intelligence (AI) bot it claims has “an IQ of 155” to he... |
| 11.06.2024 | Egg purchase limits, orange juice shortage put Australia’s cafes on edge | Source: Adobe Stock. article-article-body
Australian restaurants will struggle to absorb further price hikes or pass those costs to brunch diners, industry advocates say, as hospitality businesses respond to an avian influenza outbreak acro... |
| 05.06.2024 | Photographers miffed as Meta slaps ‘Made with AI’ label on edited photos while ignoring AI-generated images | PHOTOGRAPHER MATT SUESS' IMAGE OF THE MESA ARCH. Source: THREADS/@MATTSUESSPHOTO) article-article-body
Photographers are upset that Meta is labelling their edited photos on Instagram, Facebook and Threads as “made with AI”, raising concerns... |
| 17.05.2024 | Is the Australian Government’s Quantum Computing Gamble Good for the Local IT Industry? | Over the last year, Australia’s potential to become a leader in quantum computing was given a number: potentially adding $6 billion to the economy in the coming decades.
Now, there is meaningful progress being made towards this ambition, an... |
| 16.05.2024 | Fighting inflation with subsidies? It’s been done before, successfully | Source: SmartCompany via Canva. article-article-body
One big fight in this budget is going to be whether the government’s policies to reduce inflation are legitimate.
They’ve “mechanically” reduced consumer price inflation via two policies:... |
| 08.05.2024 | Federal budget: $91 million tradie training pledge to help Australia hit ambitious housing target | A rope access construction worker is seen working on the side of a new apartment building in the suburb of Coorparoo in Brisbane, Friday, June 2, 2023. Source: AAP Image/Darren England article-article-body
The upcoming federal budget will f... |
| 24.04.2024 | Australia is already a powerhouse in manufacturing in areas where we do well | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
If Labor is to be believed, only government intervention and spending billions of taxpayer dollars will enable Australia to “compete” in the new global protectionism race to build local manufacturing... |
| 17.04.2024 | External administrations jump in March in ‘cost of doing business’ crunch | Source: AAP Image/ Mick Tsikas article-article-body
March was the worst month on record in terms of business collapses, a leading credit reporting agency says, as data once again shows construction sector businesses to be particularly expos... |
| 05.03.2024 | Meta Has Had Enough Of Australia’s Link Tax Shakedown; Says It Will Not Renew Any Deals | It appears that Meta is serious about no longer bribing news orgs to keep corrupt politicians from forcing them to engage in sketchy wealth transfer schemes to news orgs. While it caved in the past in Australia and paid off news orgs there,... |
| 28.02.2024 | An IGA supermarket owner explains how Coles and Woolsworths dictate prices | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Twenty-two years ago, I talked my sister and two business associates into investing in a small country supermarket. As a sign of our commitment, my wife and I sold our house to put up our share ($100... |
| 21.02.2024 | Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci to retire as supermarket giants face major scrutiny | Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci addresses the Boston Consulting Group BCG Digital Ventures at the launch of the BCG Climate and Sustainability Hub, in Sydney, Thursday, September 29, 2022. Source: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts. article-article-body... |
| 14.02.2024 | QLD tips $55 million into matched VC funding to grow and retain the next Sunshine State success | article-article-body
The Queensland government has tipped a further $55 million into its venture capital funding program, partnering with big-name investors to develop local startups and keep them within the state’s borders.
The state gover... |
| 01.02.2024 | Opinion: It’s high time economists and politicians take note of the rapidly feminising workforce | article-article-body
The impacts on female employment of the government’s revamped Stage 3 tax cuts continue to attract less debate than notionally more glamorous subjects such as the push for more “tax reform”. That’s of a piece with how t... |
| 30.01.2024 | “Killer” buyouts: Small business acquisitions under Competition Taskforce scrutiny | Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, November 9, 2023. Source: AAP Image/Lukas Coch article-article-body
Acquisition by a major company is t... |
| 29.01.2024 | How Labor’s Stage 3 tax cuts will benefit women workers | Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas article-article-body
One aspect of Labor’s amendments to the Stage 3 tax cuts that has received limited coverage so far is the differing impacts for workers by gender.
Shifting the substance of the tax cuts dow... |
| 26.01.2024 | How Woolworths, Peter Dutton, and January 26 combined for 2024’s first culture war | Source: Lukas Coch, AAP Image article-article-body
In the relative quiet of January 2023, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton was able to seize the reins of the debate around that year’s coming vote on a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous adv... |
| 22.01.2024 | “Frightening”: AI-generated Indigenous art exploiting real artists’ work | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-GENERATED 'INDIGENOUS ART' IMAGES FOR SALE ON ADOBE'S STOCK IMAGE PLATFORM. Source: Adobe article-article-body
People are training artificial intelligence (AI) on Indigenous art without the artists’ permission to cre... |
| 19.01.2024 | Will Australian VCs get a slice of the US$400 billion AUKUS pie? | Virginia-class USS North Carolina docked at the HMAS Stirling port in Rockingham near Perth in August 2023. Source: AAP Image/ Aaron Bunch article-article-body
AUKUS could become a gold mine for US venture capitalists — just ask the founder... |
| 17.01.2024 | Что ждет искусственный интеллект в 2024 году | В этой заметке авторы MIT Technology Review рассматривают четыре тренда, за которыми стоит следить в наступившем году.
В прошлом году мы поступили несколько безрассудно. В индустрии, где ничто не стоит на месте, мы попробовали предсказать б... |
| 22.12.2023 | Holden boss keeps them guessing, defends productivity | article-article-body
Mike Devereaux was keeping Australian workers guessing about their futures in fronting the Productivity Commission this morning. The Holden boss didn’t announce the closure of Australian operations — as press reports pr... |
| 22.12.2023 | Melbourne man handed jail sentence after dozens of fraudulent JobKeeper claims | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
A Melbourne man has been sentenced to three years and six months imprisonment after defrauding the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) of nearly $35,000 and filing additional false claims worth an extra... |
| 22.12.2023 | SMEs could profit from government’s proposed changes to export bank | article-article-body
The SME sector could be one of the winners from the proposed changes to be made to the focus and operations of the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation.
A Senate inquiry into the controversial multibillion-dollar go... |
| 22.12.2023 | ‘A big, risky project’: Turnbull says NBN cost will be settled soon | article-article-body
How much will it actually cost to connect Australian households to the National Broadband Network? Estimates have varied wildly, but Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull told Crikey we should have a pretty good answ... |
| 22.12.2023 | Anatomy of a collapse: Five lessons from the demise of Timber giant Gunns | article-article-body
Gunns has entered into receivership after announcing yesterday that it was unable to continue trading.
Korda Mentha has been appointed as receivers.
“Ongoing lender group support has been required in order to stabilise ... |
| 22.12.2023 | Chemist Warehouse merger a potential boon for Aussie body wash, lolly brands | A Chemist Warehouse location in Liverpool, Sydney, in 2021. Source: AAP Image/ Bianca De Marchi article-article-body
Growing Australian businesses with products stocked in Chemist Warehouse are excited by its proposed merger with pharmacy t... |
| 22.12.2023 | Lachlan Murdoch lured back to News Corp, but which office does he get? | article-article-body
The Murdochs, arguably the most powerful family in the world, have produced a breathtaking power-sharing agreement that signals control will be shared by the male adults for as long as Rupert is at the helm and then ult... |
| 20.12.2023 | 2023 was the year of generative AI – what’s coming in 2024 | In 2023, artificial intelligence truly entered our daily lives. At first, many people used these tools because they were curious about generative AI or wanted to be entertained. Now people ask generative AI for help with studies, for advice... |
| 21.11.2023 | Beauty giant Mecca becomes latest brand hit by fake scam ads on Facebook, Instagram | A FAKE MECCA WEBSITE. Source: Crikey article-article-body
Earlier this month, Julia was scrolling through Instagram when she saw an advertisement that seemed too good to be true.
The Meta-owned platform served the makeup fan an ad promoting... |
| 21.11.2023 | “Can’t keep up”: Gina Rinehart urges Mark Zuckerberg to crack down on Meta scams | Gina Rinehart, Australia's richest person and executive chair of Hancock Prospecting. Source: AAP Image/ Richard Wainwright article-article-body
Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has urged Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg to crack down o... |
| 10.11.2023 | Pour decisions: China’s wine tariff review may not spell good news for the industry | Source: AP/Mark Schiefelbein. article-article-body
As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese prepared for his trip to China this weekend, Australia’s largest two-way trading partner and export destination finally announced it would launch a review... |
| 10.11.2023 | From ChatGPT to bespoke chatbots: How real estate agents are using AI | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Real estate agents across Australia are using artificial intelligence to automate many of their roles, using everything from ChatGPT to bespoke bots to speak with customers, write property listings, ... |
| 09.11.2023 | Adobe is selling AI-generated images of the Israel-Hamas war, and some websites are using them without marking that they're fake | Tech Adobe is selling AI-generated images of the Israel-Hamas war, and some websites are using them without marking that they're fake
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| 07.11.2023 | Adobe responds to controversy over AI-generated images of Gaza explosion | VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass
Just a week after President Biden’s Executive Order on the use of AI highlighted... |
| 06.11.2023 | Adobe продает фейковые фото войны в Израиле и Газе | Отдел новостей 6 ноября 2023, 14:21 Adobe продает фейковые фото войны в Израиле и Газе
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| 06.11.2023 | Adobe is Now Allegedly Selling Israel-Palestine Conflict AI Images | Aldohn Domingo, Tech Times 06 November 2023, 09:11 pm
Adobe, is allegedly selling, in its stock image service, artificially-generated images about the Israel-Palestine War, according to a report by Interesting Engineering.
Adobe's alleged s... |
| 23.10.2023 | Australia’s love affair with Toyota is ending amid changing market dynamics | Source: Toyota/ Nathan Leach-Proffer article-article-body
Is Toyota starting to go off? The giant Japanese car brand is still the best-selling in the country, but 2023 is not looking like a great year for Toyota. It has tumbled from control... |
| 23.10.2023 | ACTU says workers will ban engineered stone themselves if regulators don’t act | A modern kitchen benchtop. Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Australia’s union movement says its members will forbid the use and transportation of engineered stone unless state and federal governments formally ban it outright, escala... |
| 23.10.2023 | 1,748 data breaches over two years, but zero fines for Australian companies | Australian Information Commissioner Angelene Falk. Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas article-article-body
Australia’s privacy commissioner has defended a failure to penalise any organisation for any of the 1,748 data breaches reported over the past tw... |
| 23.10.2023 | Five key points for small business and startups in the Employment White Paper | Jim Chalmers. Source: AAP Image/Jono Searle article-article-body
Treasurer Jim Chalmers handed down the Employment White Paper on Monday, laying out how the federal government is preparing for the skills and employment needs of the future.
... |
| 23.10.2023 | Why slow wage growth isn’t keeping us from the café | Source: AAP/Dan Himbrechts article-article-body
There’s been a mystery in the Australian economy. How the heck are we spending so much money in cafés when the cost of living is supposedly crushing us so badly? Café spending just keeps risin... |
| 23.10.2023 | The part of the productivity debate that continues to be ignored | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Increased economic productivity is the exalted aim of the 21st-century state, the holy grail of every treasurer or Reserve Bank governor. But what does it really mean? At its simplest, an increase in... |
| 23.10.2023 | How Taylor Swift beat Victoria’s ticket scalpers with a nudge to the government | Source: FRONTIER TOURING, SUPPLIED article-article-body
The Victorian government has 14 days to decide on whether to use powers to thwart ticket scalpers for major events like music concerts. But such is the importance of Taylor Swift that ... |
| 23.10.2023 | Why there is no silver bullet for Qantas’ reputational crisis | Alan Joyce with incoming Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson. Source: AAP Image/Bianca De March article-article-body
When a reputational crisis strikes it’s very human to look for a quick fix. But the problems now facing Qantas are a vivid lesson for... |
| 28.06.2023 | Australian Government Apparently Willing To Follow In UK Government’s Client-Side Scanning Footsteps | The UK government desires direct control of the internet. This has been the plan for years. A bill that would criminalize encryption while mandating client-side scanning to control the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been o... |
| 07.06.2023 | Twitter defends its handling of disinformation in Australia | Twitter has outlined its processes for addressing disinformation and misinformation in Australia, but has stopped publishing granular data of the number of times it removed content or handed customer data to authorities.
The platform defend... |
| 13.12.2022 | Australia’s gender pay gap is stuck at 22.8%, and experts say employers will end up suffering | Source: Unsplash/CoWomen.
Australia’s progress on closing the gender pay gap has stalled.
Across the 2021-22 financial year, women earned $26,596 less than men on average, according to the latest annual data released this morning by the Wor... |
| 12.12.2022 | The RBA is mulling the possibility of an official digital currency, but would it actually work? | Source: Executium/Unsplash
The Reserve Bank of Australia is out this week promoting its latest thinking on digital currencies. Amid the wreckage of the crypto market — Bitcoin is down 67% this year, others are down 100% — the timing is fasc... |
| 09.12.2022 | Why Australia’s high savings could push the RBA to continue hiking interest rates in 2023 | Source: Unsplash.
In the battle of the RBA vs Australian bank accounts, the bank accounts look to be winning.
The Reserve Bank of Australia wants to crush spending in the Australian economy to try to drive down prices. But we’re just too co... |
| 01.12.2022 | Another public holiday? The way Australia’s World Cup campaign is going, businesses shouldn’t rule it out | Source: Rolex dela Pena / EPA / AAP Image
The Socceroos secured a historic World Cup victory over Denmark in the early hours of Thursday morning, causing a slow start to the working day for some of Australia’s most dedicated football fans.
... |
| 29.11.2022 | Why FTX won’t be the only corporate fraud exposed during this market downturn | Source: Sipa USA Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Sipa U
They say when the tide goes out, you find out who is swimming naked. And we have just seen a king tide that, if history is any guide, enabled an epidemic of skinny-dipping.
Frauds have been ... |
| 24.11.2022 | Elon Musk has made himself Twitter’s main character — to the detriment of the platform | Source: Daniel Oberhaus
In 2019, a Twitter user called @maplecocaine captured an important truth about the platform.
“Each day on Twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it,” they tweeted.
For those not familiar with th... |
| 22.11.2022 | Unemployment is still falling and inflation is still a problem. Will the RBA continue to hike interest rates? | Source: AAP/Dan Himbrechts.
In the race between the RBA and the economy, the economy is winning. The central bank is trying to add ballast and slow growth to get inflation to back off. But the big old beast has more momentum than the RBA re... |
| 22.11.2022 | Payments unicorn Zeller now chasing growth among big business clients after building SME solutions | Zeller co-founder and chief executive Ben Pfisterer. Source: supplied.
A gloomy economic outlook and worsening consumer sentiment have not dampened optimism at payments unicorn Zeller, which claims a significant uptick in big business users... |
| 17.11.2022 | What tech bosses like Zuckerberg and Bankman-Fried actually mean when they say sorry | MARK ZUCKERBERG (IMAGE: WHITE HOUSE)
Until a few years ago, when corporate communications departments caught on, not long after a calamity the top person would be rightfully criticised and sometimes lose their job or bonus.
Alas, in recent ... |
| 14.11.2022 | Telstra Ventures caught in FTX blowback after investing as part of US$350 million round | Source: Sipa USA Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Sipa U
Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of imploding cryptocurrency firm FTX, celebrated the firm’s ability to “stretch itself” in a July conversation with Telstra Ventures general partner Yash Patel.
Bu... |
| 11.11.2022 | Zuckerberg is gambling on the metaverse, and it’s costing thousands of Meta jobs | Source: AP/Eric Risberg.
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know he takes responsibility for Meta, formerly Facebook, laying off 13% of the company’s workforce.
“I want to take accountability for these decisions and for how we got here,” he wrote... |
| 09.11.2022 | The mysterious rise of travel entrepreneur Robert Chamberlain, apparently one of the richest Australians under 40 | Huno Group website and founder Robert Chamberlain.
Few AFR Young Rich Listers have had such meteoric and mysterious rises as travel entrepreneur, Robert Chamberlain. The founder of the Huno Group bolted onto the Young Rich List in 2019 with... |
| 09.11.2022 | Small business owners to share challenges with Julie Collins, Sussan Ley at Parliament House showcase | Source: Darren England / AAP Image
A select group of small business owners will tonight share an audience with federal lawmakers in Canberra, as rising costs, staff shortages, and troubling Christmas spending forecasts heap pressure on the ... |
| 04.11.2022 | Fossil fuel giants paid no tax in 2020-21 despite billions in revenue, says ATO report | source: jan antonin kolar/unsplash.
Australia’s biggest gas and coal exporters paid no tax in 2020-21, data from the Australian Taxation Office’s annual tax transparency report shows. And fossil fuel lobbyist News Corp continues to fail to ... |
| 03.11.2022 | Everything in Australia is going up in price — except property | Source: James Ross / AAP Image
House prices are pretty much the only prices falling across Australia which is something like irony, considering they are not part of the consumer price index the RBA is targeting.
Expect rising CPI and fallin... |
| 02.11.2022 | Seven tweets that tell the story of the first few days of Elon Musk’s Twitter | ELON MUSK (IMAGE: DPA-ZENTRALBILD/ PATRICK PLEUL)
It hasn’t even been a week since Elon Musk acquired Twitter and already there have been high-profile layoffs, major platform changes flagged and many influential accounts divided over whethe... |
| 01.11.2022 | Reserve Bank of Australia issues Melbourne Cup day cash rate hike as inflation bursts out of the gate | Source: Shutterstock/The Conversation.
One favourite has already come good on Melbourne Cup day after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised its cash rate target 25 basis points to 2.85%.
The central bank revealed its seventh consecutiv... |
| 28.10.2022 | Fossil fuel companies provide just 3.5% of sport sponsorship dollars, meaning they have more to lose than athletes | AUSTRALIAN CRICKET CAPTAIN PAT CUMMINS (IMAGE: AAP/DEAN LEWINS)
A report released today has put a dollar value on the amount of fossil fuel sponsorship in sport.
The estimated $14 million to $18 million enjoyed annually across 14 “top-tier”... |
| 27.10.2022 | Labor wants to build 1 million new houses. Is that possible? | It’s good to finally have a government serious about housing — albeit not serious enough to fix the structural problems that have locked so many Australians out of owning a home and, increasingly, renting one.
This week’s budget contains mu... |
| 25.10.2022 | Budget 2022: What Jim Chalmers can do to combat inflation and avoid an economic crash | Source: Lukas Coch / AAP Image
Australia has a brand-new treasurer — and a very unexpected brand-new economic situation. The second budget of 2022 stands as a moment when it is not just budget policy that should change but the whole machine... |
| 25.10.2022 | Budget 2022: 10 things we know about Labor’s “wellbeing” budget and support for businesses | Source: AAP Image / Lukas Coch
A lot can change in six months. Just ask Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who will on Tuesday deliver a vastly different federal budget to the economic roadmap laid out by the Coalition in March.
Chalmers says Labor’s ... |
| 20.10.2022 | Qantas profits are soaring and Alan Joyce will earn $9 million, but it still won’t pay back JobKeeper assistance | QANTAS CHAIRMAN RICHARD GOYDER (LEFT) AND CEO ALAN JOYCE. Source: PRIVATE MEDIA.
Qantas continues to resist paying Australian taxpayers back any of the $2 billion it received in corporate welfare, including JobKeeper during the pandemic, de... |
| 14.10.2022 | Who is actually working from home, and where do they live? | Source: Unsplash/yasmina
They say the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.
Working from home is the zeitgeist, the mega-trend that has called to a halt construction of new office buildings and hollowed-out CBDs. Behind ... |
| 13.10.2022 | Governments are freaking out financial markets, and it could derail Australia’s budget | UK PRIME MINISTER LIZ TRUSS AND CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER KWASI KWARTENG. Source: AAP/EPA/TOLGA AKMEN
While the prospect of a central bank-engineered global recession is focusing the minds of policymakers, it is the fragility of financial... |
| 12.10.2022 | “I ran it past my dad”: Aussie YouTuber claims $400 video game weapon is a tax write-off | (IMAGE: YOUTUBE/ELMAXO)
An Australian YouTuber is claiming a tax deduction for buying an expensive video game weapon in what might be the first documented example of a tax write-off for a digital collectible item.
elmaxo is an online gaming... |
| 10.10.2022 | What to watch out for this corporate AGM season | Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes. Source: Supplied.
The AGM season for more than 1500 public companies is about to kick off — and already we’re seeing wildly divergent practices in terms of how they will be run in the post-COVID era... |
| 07.10.2022 | Tech giants are producing AI that can create videos. Will we soon struggle to tell what’s real? | VIDEOS CREATED FROM TEXT PROMPTS BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (IMAGE: GOOGLE)
Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers are showing off the technology’s latest leap forward by demonstrating models capable of creating realistic, coherent videos... |
| 06.10.2022 | Elon Musk is treating the $44 billion Twitter buy like it’s no big deal | Image: Daniel Oberhaus
Elon Musk’s eventual decision to buy Twitter is predictable. Not because it makes much sense for a reasonable person. A reasonable person would assume deciding to stump up US$40-something billion to buy a social netwo... |
| 05.10.2022 | Why Kim Kardashian’s $1 million crypto fine has put the whole industry on notice | KIM KARDASHIAN (IMAGE: AP/INVISION/EVAN AGOSTINI)
The grown-ups have entered the chat.
On Monday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it had reached a settlement agreement with Kim Kardashian for unlawfully touting cry... |
| 03.10.2022 | State and federal government departments are battling each other for the same .au domain names | A SCREENSHOT FROM THE AUDA WEBSITE. Source: AUDA.
The introduction of the .au namespace has pitted state and federal government departments against each other as they vie for the same premium domain names.
Earlier this year, Australia’s web... |
| 30.09.2022 | Will working from home change how the next generation of workers choose their professions? | Source: Women's Agenda.
The path out of deficit is obvious according to Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe: reduce government spending, increase taxation or grow the economy.
But whatever Treasurer Jim Chalmers says about eliminating Coaliti... |
| 29.09.2022 | Qantas and Jetstar facing fleet issues as ageing aircraft exacerbate poor airline performance | Source: Shutterstock
Freshly appointed Jetstar CEO Stephanie Tully, who is being promoted from her position as the Qantas group chief customer officer, will have plenty on her plate when she starts work in November.
Quite aside from the air... |
| 28.09.2022 | Optus offers data victims a free subscription to Equifax — an identity protection service that’s previously been hacked | Source: Unsplash/Jefferson Santos.
In the aftermath of possibly Australia’s biggest data breach, Optus offered customers “most affected” a free subscription to an identity-protection service, provided by credit-monitoring company Equifax Pr... |
| 28.09.2022 | States start making licence renewals free for Optus hack victims | Australian states and territories have been scrambling to change their drivers’ licence renewal policies in the wake of the Optus hack.
Licence numbers and passports were two of the most concerning pieces of identifying information that wer... |
| 27.09.2022 | Alleged Optus hacker deletes extortion threat after releasing what it claims are details of 10,000 customers | General photo of an Optus store in Melbourne, Australia. Source: AAP Image/Luis Ascui.
The alleged Optus hacker has suddenly deleted their online extortion threat shortly after releasing what they claim were the details of 10,000 customers ... |
| 27.09.2022 | Optus hack victims charged for passport and licence number changes | Source: Bianca De Marchi / AAP Image
Customers impacted by the Optus hack will have to pay if they want to change their passport. And when it comes to drivers licences, details are murky and vary from state-to-state.
The Optus hack resulted... |
| 23.09.2022 | After Qantas goes meat-only, Virgin says all vegetarians welcome on its flights | Source: AAP/Dan Peled.
With Qantas’ snub to vegetarian, kosher, halal and gluten-free passengers still exciting plenty of media interest this week, rival Virgin was only too happy to point out it doesn’t share the contempt of the “national ... |
| 23.09.2022 | One in three Aussies could be caught in Optus cyberattack but they have no recourse | General photo of an Optus store in Melbourne, Australia, taken on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Source: AAP Image/Luis Ascui.
The Optus data breach could go down as the biggest in Australia’s history — and thanks to our laws, there’s little recou... |
| 23.09.2022 | China’s top e-commerce influencer Li Jiaqi disappeared for three months, but the ‘Lipstick King’ is back | LI (LEFT) WITH THE ICE CREAM CAKE SHAPED LIKE AN ARMOURED TANK Source: TAOBAO LIVE.
Back in June, on the eve of this year’s anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square massacre, the country’s top live-streaming sales influencer Li Jiaqi (also k... |
| 21.09.2022 | Twitch to ban streams featuring Stake.com, the cryptocurrency casino linked to Australian tech startup Easygo | Source: Sipa USA Rafael Henrique / SOPA Images/Si
Global livestreaming platform Twitch says it will soon ban broadcasts of certain online casino websites, dealing a significant blow to Stake.com, the cryptocurrency gambling platform closely... |
| 21.09.2022 | National carrier or budget airline? Qantas’s food cutbacks leave vegetarians hungry | Source: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts
Is Qantas even pretending to be a full service airline any more? The latest wheeze from Alan Joyce’s giant travel lottery system is to in effect tell vegetarians, people with diet restrictions and travellers... |
| 20.09.2022 | Think Queen Elizabeth II was one of the richest people in the UK? Think again. | (Arthur Edwards/The Sun/PA Wire)
Send her victorious, happy and glorious — but increasingly… impecunious? The death of the queen offers a glimpse of the royal fortune — a rather more meagre thing than the fuss might imply.
On the death of h... |
| 19.09.2022 | Patagonia is trying to save the planet. Which of Australia’s super-rich will follow its lead? | PATAGONIA FOUNDER YVON CHOUINARD (IMAGE: YOUTUBE)
Outdoor clothing company Patagonia’s billionaire founder has declared Earth would be the sole shareholder of his US$3 billion company, effective immediately.
“If we have any hope of a thrivi... |
| 16.09.2022 | Can monetary policy fix inflation caused by climate change? The RBA isn’t sure | Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe.
Among an otherwise predictable paper from the Reserve Bank review team is one issue that promises some interesting and thorny questions for all involved.
The paper from Carolyn Wilkins, Renée Fry‐McKibbin ... |
| 16.09.2022 | Snub or security? Either way, Albo ditching Qantas for the Queen’s funeral speaks volumes | Prime Minister Anthony Albanese did not fly commercial to the Queen's funeral, as the UK Government requested, though New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did. Source: AAP/Lukas Coch
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has chosen to fly pr... |
| 16.09.2022 | The jobs market shows no signs of slowing down, so prepare for more big rate rises | Ignore the desperate attempts to find a flaw in the Australian jobs market — multiple large rate rises have done nothing to damage employment. The Reserve Bank (RBA) is set to continue its punishment of households and businesses for months ... |
