All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From Snapchat partnering with the AEC for The Voice to auDA denying a data breach, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia.
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Threads Is Finally Getting a Web Browser
As the cold war between Elon Musk’s Twitter (recently rebranded as X) and Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads rages on, the latter is preparing to launch a new offensive. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced that Threads was finally getting a bona fide browser version. Mosseri announced the new version of Threads in an update on his…
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Anti-Piracy Group Takes Massive AI Training Dataset ‘Books3′ Offline
One of the most prominent pirated book repositories used for training AI, Books3, has been kicked out from the online nest it had been roosting in for nearly three years. Rights-holders have been at war with online pirates for decades, but artificial intelligence is like oil seeping into copyright law’s water. The two simply do…
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Bitcoin Freefalls to Two-Month Low After SpaceX Write-Down
If the spectacular failure of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX exchange wasn’t evidence enough, the crypto bubble has officially popped. Now, Bitcoin, one of the most widely used cryptocurrencies, has fallen to a two-month low. Reuters reports that today Bitcoin fell to its lowest value since June 16—its value this morning was $US26,172. That’s a slight improvement…