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Telstra to face Senate inquiry over nationwide outage as $30 million fine looms
Hundreds of Triple Zero calls failed and regional trains stopped dead during the nationwide blackout that also stalled bank payments across the country.
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Albanese to give major AI speech as his own base pushes for tougher rules
Labor’s own membership is driving the loudest push to regulate AI as the prime minister prepares a major speech on the technology.
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Meta kills its Instagram AI tool after three days, admitting it “missed the mark”
The opt-out tool let anyone turn a stranger’s public Instagram photos into AI images and SAG-AFTRA told members to protect their likeness
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Boy, 16, charged with murder of Donald teenager Layla Jeffery: What we know
Detectives found the missing teenager’s remains in bushland a kilometre from her home before charging a boy known to her
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Australia jails its first child trafficker after Sydney sex-work syndicate exposed
A 45-year-old Arncliffe man is the first person convicted of child trafficking in Australia after moving an Indonesian teenager to Sydney for sex work
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Police allege a teenager had AI plan a mass shooting for him. It wouldn't be the first time.
Court documents describe a 13-year-old prompting a chatbot for first-person massacre content as lawsuits mount against AI firms overseas
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Federal Labor members push for AI-labelling law on music and art
Federal Labor's membership wants the party to commit to labelling AI-generated music and art as artists warn over a flood of machine-made work.
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Telstra took two and a half hours to tell the minister, as outage sparks Triple Zero test-call row
Telstra detected the fault at 4.30am but did not alert the minister's office until 7am as a Liberal senator's test calls to 000 drew fire.
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How many pharmacies actually stocked nicotine vapes? Almost none
The federal government still defends the pharmacy vape scheme it built while the states clean up the black market it fed.
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Nationwide Telstra outage cuts mobiles, grounds V/Line and hits Triple Zero
A Telstra node failure grounded V/Line and knocked out mobiles nationwide as some callers reported they could not reach Triple Zero.
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We made the world's most powerful AI model draw Melbourne — the results were, unexpected.
We benchmarked Claude Fable Max against ChatGPT and Gemini on three drawing prompts before the model went offline.
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Psychedelic therapy in Australia used to be limited to the wealthy — that just changed
A $20,000-plus rule kept psychedelic therapy out of reach for everyday Australians — the TGA just scrapped it.