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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eSafety Asks Big Tech to Explain How They Tackle Child Exploitation Material
Legal notices issued to Apple, Meta (and WhatsApp), Microsoft (and Skype), Snap and Omegle.
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Jaws in 3D (Not Jaws 3D) Is Out This Weekend and Worth Your Time
As the summer movie season comes to an end, a few all-time blockbusters are busting back into theatres. One is from just last year but the other is the original. The first. Maybe the best of the best. Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic, Jaws.
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Jeff Bezos’ Is More Like a McDonald’s Hamburger Than He Realises
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the McDonald’s hamburger of humanity — an obscenely dry, flat thing that hides its own curious nature with a slathering of condiments and toppings. Both man and burger represent the incredible wealth and ubiquitous extremes of modern consumerism, neither supplying enough to aid either individual or society. Both have wormed…
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French Tax Authorities Used Google AI to Snuff Out More than 20,000 Undeclared Swimming Pools
They say the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. That seems especially true in France where tax authorities have begun deploying artificial intelligence to snuff out thousands of undeclared swimming pools reportedly worth around $US10 ($14) million in uncollected tax revenue. The country could soon expand its all-seeing pool AI to detect…