Australian politicians including the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader risk being kicked off China's largest social media platform WeChat for using official accounts set up by Chinese citizens.
Category Archives: Information and Communication
Australia was promised superfast broadband with the NBN. This is what we got.
In 2009 we were promised a fast National Broadband Network with optical fibre cables direct to most homes and businesses. Instead, we've ended up with a mix of technologies including optical fibre, copper wires, Hybrid Fibre Coaxial, fixed wireless and satellite.
Samsung’s super-expensive folding smartphone is reportedly breaking after just a few days’ use
In another bad product release for Samsung, its brand-new folding Galaxy Fold smartphone appears to be breaking after being used for only a couple of days, according to journalists reviewing the device before launch.
Can hate content on social media be automatically screened out by algorithms?
In the wake of the Christchurch massacre, Scott Morrison overestimated the ability of algorithms to censor hate content, as RMIT ABC Fact Check found out.
‘Humans are trickable and so are machines’: The race to fool AI
As more of daily life moves not only online but into the orbit of intelligent machines, computer scientists and lawyers are debating a fuzzy line: when are you hacking a computer and when are you simply tricking it?
‘People at the bottom get screwed’: ‘Loom’ social media scam lures with promises of quick money
The "Loom" scheme, an international online scam targeting young people through social media that sees most participants ending up "scamming" family and friends, is circulating in Australia.
WikiLeaks claims Julian Assange was subject of spying at Ecuadorian embassy
WikiLeaks says its founder Julian Assange has been the subject of a sophisticated spying operation in London's Ecuadorean embassy where he has been holed up since 2012.
Burger King pulls NZ chopsticks ad after outcry in China and social media grilling
Burger King asks a New Zealand franchisee to take down a promotional video showing customers trying to eat burgers with chopsticks after it sparks a huge online outcry and demands for an apology.
How the Lincoln Lewis catfish duped Optus into helping her harass her victim online
Optus apologises after a stalker in Melbourne's northern suburbs repeatedly tricked the telecommunications giant into giving her the phone numbers and account login details for one of her victims.
‘No embarrassing situations’: How China pressured a local Sydney council
The Chinese consulate warned Georges River Council they didn't want 'any embarrassing situations' as they repeatedly pressured them to ban an independent media company that had been critical of China's Communist Party.