-
The Government’s Vaccine Booking Website Is Working As Well As You’d Expect
As the government begins its rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, people are having issues with the brand new website meant to co-ordinate bookings with GPs, clinics and immunisation centres around the country. Last week, it was announced that HealthEngine would be responsible for the vaccine booking system, despite having been recently fined for handing out patients data…
-
Australia Helped The UN Write Some Rules For How Countries Must Behave Online
A years-in-the-making UN document that establishes rules for how countries should interact online has been adopted, with Australia playing a role in seeing it come to fruition. On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly took a break from trying to warn everyone about climate change to adopt a report from the Open-ended Working Group on…
-
Netflix Is Trying To Make It Harder To Share And Steal Accounts
Sharing your Netflix account is about to get more difficult as the international streaming behemoth tests a feature that will make it harder for people outside of the same household share a login in an effort to stop people stealing accounts. Netflix has launched an experiment that shows some of its users a prompt asking…
-
People Are Now Making NFTs Out of Artworks and Tweets without Permission
People looking to make a quick buck are turning other people’s tweets and artworks into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) without their permission, with some claiming NFT versions of their work have even been sold by scammers. In case you’ve been living under a rock, NFTs are unique digital objects that are authenticated using something like the…