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Most Australian teens are still on social media three months into the under-16 ban

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Most Australian teenagers are still using social media three months after the country’s world-first under-16 ban took effect, according to a new study from the eSafety Commissioner that undercuts one of the government’s flagship online-safety policies. The share of teens using social media slipped only from 86% to 81%, the regulator found, even though platforms […]

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Australia takes Telegram to court over terrorist content it says the app left up

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The eSafety regulator has filed civil proceedings seeking up to A$54.6m, alleging Telegram hosted mass-shooting and Islamic State videos and ignored takedown demands. Telegram says it will fight. Australia’s online safety regulator has taken Telegram to court, alleging the messaging app left terrorist and violent extremist videos on its platform after being told to remove […]

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X says Australia’s under-16 crackdown breaks international law

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Elon Musk’s X has told Australia that its plan to tighten enforcement of a world-first ban on under-16s using social media would breach international law. The company has trained its objection on a bill that would let the country’s online-safety regulator demand documents from people who live nowhere near Australia. The complaint, reported by Reuters, […]

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Australia’s world-first data centre rules need every state to agree. Two just said no.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed national environmental and energy controls for the country’s A$150 billion data centre pipeline hit their first obstacle on Tuesday, when two jurisdictions declined to back them. Federal, state and territory energy ministers met virtually to discuss the plan, and Queensland and the Northern Territory opposed most of the measures, […]

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Australia’s world-first data centre rules hit their first snag: the power isn’t there yet

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Australia has told its data centres to put more power into the grid than they pull out, an obligation no other country has tried to write into law. The demand is barely a fortnight old, and it has already met the most basic of objections: the electricity the industry is meant to supply cannot be […]

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A gas-rich outback station could host a $28bn off-grid AI data centre

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On a cattle station deep in the Northern Territory outback, roughly 683km south of Darwin, a Singapore-headquartered developer wants to build one of the largest data centres in the southern hemisphere. The plan leans on a resource the region has in abundance and the electricity grid does not reach out to supply: gas. Energy North […]

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Origin Energy investigates potential breach of customer data

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Australia’s largest energy retailer has told the ASX that some customer information may have been accessed without authorisation, though it says card and bank details appear untouched. Origin Energy, Australia’s largest electricity and gas retailer, told the Australian Securities Exchange on 22 July that it is investigating potential unauthorised access to some of its customers’ data. The […]

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Victoria proposes forcing social media platforms to unmask anonymous accounts accused of vilification

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Victoria’s premier Jacinta Allan announced on Sunday that the state would propose laws granting the Victorian civil and administrative tribunal power to order social media and AI platforms to reveal the identities of anonymous account holders accused of online vilification. The “demasking” powers would be the first of their kind for an Australian state. Allan […]

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Australia sets up a national Office of AI

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Australia has set up a national Office of AI. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also promised new copyright protection for creatives, in a speech in Sydney. Albanese announced the plan on Wednesday at the University of Sydney, the Guardian reported. His government billed it as a major speech on AI. It covered copyright, data-centre rules, and […]

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Australia tells AI data centres to put back more power than they take out

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Anthony Albanese has told the AI industry that Australian books, music, and journalism are not free training data, and that any large data centre built in the country will have to put more electricity into the grid than it draws out. Neither of those things is law yet. The prime minister used a speech at […]

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