The Weekly Cybers #121
OpenAI joins the share float bandwagon, link confirmed between teen social media use and depression, Australian government talks up the datacentre boom, and Pokémon Go goes to war.
The Weekly Cybers #120
AUKUS drones to protect undersea cables, Microsoft wants to get you addicted, news of an AI real estate agent chatbot, and more.
The Weekly Cybers #119
AI companies go for the big dollars, Pope Leo XIV writes a letter, Australian telcos have a sook (again), and more.
The Weekly Cybers #118
So much AI this week! Doctors who insist on using AI scribes, a law school that bans AI, and a news masthead’s AI pivot leads to failure. But there’s much more, so read on!
The Weekly Cybers #117
The Budget invests in tech sustainment, Kickstarter dumps adult content, robot lawnmowers get hacked and go rogue, and way too much AI news.
The Weekly Cybers #116
Richard Dawkins falls for an AI chatbot; China bans workers being sacked when AI takes their jobs (kinda); Apple sued for £3 billion, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #115
Australia to have another go at shifting cash from big tech to news mastheads, applications open for new top-level internet domains, medical devices are still easy to hack, and more.
The Weekly Cybers #114
Rental tech company slapped for collecting too much data, Palantir publishes a controversial manifesto, Anthropic’s AI-powered hacking tool Mythos is itself hacked, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #113
Social media age assurance tech trial ignored privacy warnings, French government to dump Windows for Linux, Meta to create an artificial Mark Zuckerberg, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #112
Meta censors drug health information, the attorney-general signals AI-related copyright changes, Sam Altman reportedly can barely code, government secrecy provisions under review, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #111
Big tech is “taking the piss”, says minister, as two-thirds of under-16s still on the socials; draft Children’s Online Privacy Code released; Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover backfires; and more.
The Weekly Cybers #110
Meta and YouTube found guilty of running addictive social media platforms, new AI data centre rules, Wikipedia bans AI use, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #109
Vibes-polling reckons the teen social media ban works, Meta closes down the Metaverse (or not), AI giants are hiring chemical warfare experts, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #108
Atlassian lays off 1,600 staff, VPN downloads soar as adult sites block Australia, and Trump releases a cyber strategy.
The Weekly Cybers #107
Government dumps its unpopular FoI reforms, Jim’s Group’s AI goes rogue, AI companies battle it out in tough talks with the Pentagon, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #106
AI chatbots are driving people crazy, Wikipedia blacklists a major archive site, almost 100 Australian businesses have paid of cyber ransoms in just eight months, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #105
Meta isn’t trying to be addictive says Zuckerberg, OECD ranks Australia #2 for digital government, KPMG staff use AI to cheat in an exam on using AI, and are you as bad as I am at spotting AI-generated faces?
The Weekly Cybers #104
US court to decide whether social media is addictive, eSafety puts Roblox on notice over child safety, Elon Musk’s X found to have boosted far-right politics in Germany, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #103
Bunnings gets a green light for face scanning but a slap for inadequate policies, Australia’s teen social media ban seems less of a drama than imagined with other countries are to follow, and real estate rental platforms are horribly vulnerable.
The Weekly Cybers #102
In a relatively quiet week there’s some poking at the teen social media ban, a slap for Service Australia, and more.