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To touch down in Australia and four other continents, Meta's planned Project Waterworth cable will span the globe
18th Feb 25, 9:39am
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To touch down in Australia and four other continents, Meta's planned Project Waterworth cable will span the globe
Despite advances and human fine-tuning, generative AI is prone to stupidity and errors. Should we drop the current tech and try something else?
14th Feb 25, 1:34pm
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Despite advances and human fine-tuning, generative AI is prone to stupidity and errors. Should we drop the current tech and try something else?
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Supervision tools for parents, content restrictions and sleep mode that silences nighttime notifications: Instagram teen accounts are here
10th Feb 25, 6:04pm
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Supervision tools for parents, content restrictions and sleep mode that silences nighttime notifications: Instagram teen accounts are here
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Dead AV legend 'launches' memecoin and chatbot, and new DeepSeek AI model from China has the US industry sit up
26th Jan 25, 3:47pm
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Dead AV legend 'launches' memecoin and chatbot, and new DeepSeek AI model from China has the US industry sit up
Banned and reprieved social media star TikTok could end up in Elon Musk's ownership, after Trump approval
22nd Jan 25, 3:21pm
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Banned and reprieved social media star TikTok could end up in Elon Musk's ownership, after Trump approval
This year, AI will get better and cheaper, and maybe even gain independence
Crypto people get a fright from quantum computing's giant leap forward (or was it?), as we enter the New AI-ge
13th Dec 24, 11:41am
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Crypto people get a fright from quantum computing's giant leap forward (or was it?), as we enter the New AI-ge
Better cooperation between industry and government proposed by Commerce Minister Andrew Bayly to reduce growing online scamming menace, but no new funding made available
5th Dec 24, 8:49pm
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Better cooperation between industry and government proposed by Commerce Minister Andrew Bayly to reduce growing online scamming menace, but no new funding made available
Mandatory SMS Sender ID Register, youth social media ban with large fines for Big Tech coming up for Australia
3rd Dec 24, 12:38pm
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Mandatory SMS Sender ID Register, youth social media ban with large fines for Big Tech coming up for Australia
Australia will impose a ‘digital duty of care’ on tech companies to reduce online harm. It’s a good idea – if it can be enforced
15th Nov 24, 9:20am
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Australia will impose a ‘digital duty of care’ on tech companies to reduce online harm. It’s a good idea – if it can be enforced
Tech roundup: AWS needs stacks of money to build out cloud capacity for AI, which can now be used to search the Internet and persuade voters on social media; Apple meanwhile invests in LEO provider Globalstar
5th Nov 24, 12:26pm
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Tech roundup: AWS needs stacks of money to build out cloud capacity for AI, which can now be used to search the Internet and persuade voters on social media; Apple meanwhile invests in LEO provider Globalstar
Will Meta's new facial recognition technology put a dent in the number of celebrity scams on Facebook?
22nd Oct 24, 12:01pm
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Will Meta's new facial recognition technology put a dent in the number of celebrity scams on Facebook?
Westpac NZ CEO Catherine McGrath highlights tension between privacy and fighting scammers
19th Oct 24, 9:00am
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Westpac NZ CEO Catherine McGrath highlights tension between privacy and fighting scammers
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta continue to pound away at augmented reality with the Orion glasses, which won't be sold to consumers
27th Sep 24, 10:42am
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Mark Zuckerberg and Meta continue to pound away at augmented reality with the Orion glasses, which won't be sold to consumers
Mid-week tech news roundup: Russia out of your Facebook and other apps, protections for teens on Instagram, and someone blew up Hezbollah's pagers
18th Sep 24, 10:55am
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Mid-week tech news roundup: Russia out of your Facebook and other apps, protections for teens on Instagram, and someone blew up Hezbollah's pagers
Nations with authoritarian governance like the UAE and China have massive advantages over Western counterparts, Angela Huyue Zhang says
6th Sep 24, 9:22am
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Nations with authoritarian governance like the UAE and China have massive advantages over Western counterparts, Angela Huyue Zhang says
Facebook seems happy to be a scammers' online paradise, and the tech industry is depressed with AI unlikely to cheer it up
23rd Aug 24, 11:27am
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Facebook seems happy to be a scammers' online paradise, and the tech industry is depressed with AI unlikely to cheer it up
CrowdStrike: the massive companies you’ve never heard of with a hidden grip on our lives
25th Jul 24, 10:34am
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CrowdStrike: the massive companies you’ve never heard of with a hidden grip on our lives
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says open source is the way forward for AI, with the company releasing new Llama 3.1 models
24th Jul 24, 3:40pm
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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says open source is the way forward for AI, with the company releasing new Llama 3.1 models
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I joined a 'pig butchering' WhatsApp group, in which scammers try to trick people into crypto currency 'investments'
22nd Jul 24, 2:49pm
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I joined a 'pig butchering' WhatsApp group, in which scammers try to trick people into crypto currency 'investments'
Expect a multi-faceted impact on New Zealand's economy from AI, Treasury note suggests
16th Jul 24, 3:32pm
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Expect a multi-faceted impact on New Zealand's economy from AI, Treasury note suggests
Authorities across the Tasman look set to introduce mandatory industry code with big penalties for tech companies not acting on increasing number of scams on their sites
15th Jul 24, 4:14pm
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Authorities across the Tasman look set to introduce mandatory industry code with big penalties for tech companies not acting on increasing number of scams on their sites
The technologies the nations attending the World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian, China, think will change the future
26th Jun 24, 3:10pm
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The technologies the nations attending the World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian, China, think will change the future
Big tech companies were open to online safety regulation – why did NZ’s government scrap the idea?
25th Jun 24, 9:49am
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Big tech companies were open to online safety regulation – why did NZ’s government scrap the idea?
ASUS, Lenovo, Microsoft Xbox to build mixed reality headsets running Meta Horizon OS
23rd Apr 24, 10:55am
ASUS, Lenovo, Microsoft Xbox to build mixed reality headsets running Meta Horizon OS