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    Julie Inman Grant

    Police contacted over threats to eSafety chief: court documents

    Australia’s e-safety watchdog went to police after commissioner Julie Inman Grant received threats and online abuse after telling X Corp to take down a video of a brutal church stabbing.

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    • Miklos Bolza
    Cybersecurity co-ordinator Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness disclosed that her office was responding to a major hack on Thursday.

    Hackers hold Australian prescription platform to ransom

    The government’s cybersecurity co-ordinator is managing the fallout from a “large-scale ransomware data breach” at digital prescription network MediSecure.

    • Nick Bonyhady and Euan Black

    ‘Business spends bugger all’: what landmark R&D review aims to fix

    Technology industry experts warn a new government review into the R&D system must not cut tax incentives, and must kick-start anaemic business investment. 

    • Paul Smith, Tess Bennett and Nick Bonyhady

    Hackers steal the keys to Iress’ OneVue platform

    Financial software provider Iress is investigating if any client data has been breached after discovering hackers stole a credential to gain access to its systems.

    • Tess Bennett

    Healthcare opportunities amid market challenges

    Amid a fixation on traditional pillars, investors risk overlooking the potential lurking in innovative industries like healthcare and technology.

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    For the Taliban, Afghans’ best status symbol is a $2120 iPhone

    Commerce is thriving for some entrepreneurs despite the difficulties imposed by the country’s rulers.

    • Riazat Butt

    Opinion & Analysis

    How gridiron and cartoon elves sent this ASX giant surging

    The 12 per cent surge in Aristocrat Leisure’s share price reflects a solid profit beat. But there’s a secret sauce behind its long track record of growth.

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    X ruling marks the spot for online police

    Elon Musk has overreach by Australia’s eSafety commissioner to thank for an important victory in the courts.

    Michael Pelly

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    Michael Pelly

    A toothbrush that cuts your hair? This is the Swiss army knife of grooming

    As Panasonic’s multifunction device reveals, there’s a natural order to morning ablutions.

    John Davidson

    Columnist

    John Davidson

    Tesla slashes jobs in Australian charging team

    The company’s global cuts have come to Australia, with staff laid off and at least one charger location cancelled.

    Nick Bonyhady

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    Technology reviews

    Dell rethinks its legendary laptop

    Dell has made some dramatic design choices in its quest to revitalise its legendary-but-ageing XPS laptop lineup, and we’re not sure all of them have worked.

    • John Davidson

    You’ll forget you’re even wearing these earbuds

    The OpenFit earbuds by Shokz might not look the best, but they certainly feel the best of any earbuds we’ve ever reviewed.

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    Aristocrat chief executive Trevor Croker has delivered another solid profit result.

    How gridiron and cartoon elves sent this ASX giant surging

    The 12 per cent surge in Aristocrat Leisure’s share price reflects a solid profit beat. But there’s a secret sauce behind its long track record of growth.

    • James Thomson

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    Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company was now “pushing the boundaries” of how much personal or business information it was able to pass on to Gemini for every query.

    Google steals OpenAI’s thunder with something 15 times bigger

    The new version of Gemini can write poems about objects it’s seen, or even tell the user where it last saw her glasses.

    • John Davidson

    This Month

    Elon Musk will be delighted at the Federal Court win over the eSafety commissioner.

    X ruling marks the spot for online police

    Elon Musk has overreach by Australia’s eSafety commissioner to thank for an important victory in the courts.

    • Michael Pelly
    Elon Musk scored a win over Anthony Albanese in the local Federal Court.

    Judge rebukes ‘clear case’ of government overreach on stabbing video

    A Federal Court judge said a global ban would not be a “reasonable” step and would likely be ignored by other countries.

    • Max Mason and Nick Bonyhady

    Firstmac hack deepens, credit card data stolen

    The theft of credit card details has raised concerns about the Brisbane-based lender’s security and encryption standards.

    • Liam Walsh
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    Tony Fitzgibbon, founder and chairman of Data Zoo, a fintech which has banked a $30 million investment.

    $100m Sydney fintech raises $34m to take on global rivals

    Ellerston Capital has taken a stake in digital identity and verification player Data Zoo, in a deal that values the Sydney-founded business north of $100m.

    • Tess Bennett
    “It’s still a bit surprising to me that it’s real,” OpenAI co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman wrote in a blog post after the announcement of the company’s latest AI development.

    ‘Like AI from the movies:’ New ChatGPT arrives

    The launch was not without some snags: after coaching a researcher through solving an algebra problem, it said: “Wow, that’s quite the outfit you’ve got on.”

    • Paul Smith
    Remote access trojans are one tool used by cyber criminals to target victims’ accounts.

    This industry needs 5000 new workers every year just to keep up

    Australian cybersecurity workers warn the domestic industry is not competitive with foreign rivals.

    • Andrew Tillett

    A toothbrush that cuts your hair? This is the Swiss army knife of grooming

    As Panasonic’s multifunction device reveals, there’s a natural order to morning ablutions.

    • John Davidson
    X owner Elon Musk has beaten back a government attempt to force his site to take down stabbing videos.

    Musk triumphs over Australian government on stabbing videos

    The ruling raises questions about whether the eSafety Commission has sufficient powers to do its job or if it bungled its case against Elon Musk’s X.

    • Nick Bonyhady
    George Peppou of Vow

    R&D boost needed for Future Made in Australia plan to fly

    Australian firms that develop innovative technologies say they are disincentivised to build their products in Australia and are calling for R&D incentive changes.

    • Tess Bennett

    Apple will revamp Siri to catch up with chatbot competitors

    Apple is expected to release an improved Siri that is more conversational and versatile at its developer conference in June.

    • Tripp Mickle, Brian X. Chen and Cade Metz
    Grant Custance - CEO of Nimbus

    Flexible work payroll software failures risk huge fines

    The disconnect between the hours that payroll systems think people work, and how long they’re actually working, is only going to get more expensive to ignore.

    • John Davidson
    PsiQuantum’s Jeremy O’Brien (left) and Terry Rudolph in Brisbane.

    UK’s bet on PsiQuantum is one-fiftieth the size of Australia’s

    Leading British quantum computing specialists have expressed surprise at the Albanese government’s decision to invest nearly $1 billion in backing the start-up.

    • Hans van Leeuwen
    Chris Hulls says a US IPO is a “natural step” for the family tracking app.

    Investors question Life360’s Nasdaq dual-listing plans

    Investors and analysts are concerned about how the San Francisco-based, ASX-listed app developer will fare in a crowded US public market.

    • Tess Bennett
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    X owner Elon Musk has slammed Australian government attempts to remove videos on his site.

    15 minutes to get around X’s stabbing video ban, court hears

    Lawyers for the social network argued that they had complied with a government take-down notice, which they said was invalid, by blocking footage in Australia.

    • Nick Bonyhady
    Life360 co-founder Chris Hulls and chief financial officer Russell Burke are preparing the tracking company for the US IPO.

    Life360 reheats plans to target US investors with Nasdaq listing

    The ASX-listed, San Francisco-based family-tracking app does not expect to raise more than $US100 million. It had considered a similar move in 2021.

    • Tess Bennett
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    Tesla slashes jobs in Australian charging team

    The company’s global cuts have come to Australia, with staff laid off and at least one charger location cancelled.

    • Nick Bonyhady
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    Apple ad fail shows why we fear AI

    Apple has apologised for an ad for its new iPads that was so tone-deaf that the creative types, who normally love the company, had an existential fright.

    • Paul Smith
    Apple’s new iPad Pro ads have sparked outrage.

    Why everyone’s mad at Apple’s new iPad ad

    Apple’s crushing of human creativity has sparked backlash, but its new iPad Pro ad has also inspired some surprising video responses.

    • Will Oremus