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The voices of the dead Hollywood stars are being unveiled in a new AI app to be used as text readers. Here's what we know.

The privacy of Australian children is being violated on a large scale, with their personal images — and sometimes their names and locations — being used to train the AI powering most of the world's image-generators.

MrBeast is YouTube's most subscribed to content creator, with a staggering 290 million followers. So why are his videos so enjoyable for his legions of fans?

On the very first day of public hearings for the much-vaunted Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant compared banning children younger than 16 from social media to banning them from the ocean.

Cyber safety experts say the ability to create fake sexually explicit images has become frighteningly easy in the last couple of years.

After being arrested in the Hamptons last week, the pop singer has resumed his world tour.

Andrew Thomas Hayler, 38, is sentenced to nine years in jail for uploading digitally altered images of dozens of women he knew, alongside identifying details, to a pornography website.

More than three decades after Jack Karlson's infamous arrest at a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane captured the nation, a film crew is setting out to document his life.

This week in tech news, a global survey shows Australians are less comfortable with AI-generated news than the rest of the world, while Meta navigates the next steps in rolling out its AI trial and the US Surgeon-General calls for social media warning labels for teens.

Fake job listings are increasingly used by companies to give the illusion they're thriving and to placate overworked staff. If you're applying for work, there are plenty of clues to look out for to avoid wasting your time.

Apple is finally making its big AI move, and it matters more than most flashy big tech launches for two reasons.

The Coalition hopes the federal government will agree to put aside politics to cut kids off from social media, as it continues to push for a ban.

Many young people in China are using live-streamed blind dates — with sometimes hundreds of people watching — to meet potential partners. 

When a popular Australian podcast recently got into hot water over an episode about toxic shock syndrome (TSS), the incident reflected the consequences of medical misinformation and TSS confusion. So what exactly is TSS, and how worried should women be?

Most of the country has bought cheap tickets to the hotly-anticipated action blockbuster, eSafety v Elon Musk, filmed on location at the Australian Federal Court.

Julie Inman Grant says X had previously removed violent content from the platform and the average Australian would agree with the request to have the church stabbing video removed.

The eSafety commissioner will abandon its legal case against Elon Musk's X to have graphic footage of a terrorist stabbing removed from the social media platform.

Amid challenging conditions in the local wine industry, an "exciting" cultural shift is taking place on and offline in how wine is being consumed and talked about.

An increase in pornographic deepfake images generated by artificial intelligence is prompting laws from the federal government to ban the sharing of non-consensual digitally created and altered sexually explicit material.

According to Ticketmaster's public filing, the company first identified "unauthorised activity" on May 20, a week before the post on social media.

An AI-generated image with the words "All eyes on Rafah" has ricocheted across social media, attracting million of shares. So how did a picture that's not even real become a defining image of the Israel-Gaza war? And has it made any difference?

We spoke to three experts to unpack the trending image and what it says about activism and war coverage in the social media sphere. 

Senators express disbelief that a $6.5 million pilot to test blocking some online content from children will not actually require any testing of technologies by the social media giants.

Short statured Australians say photos taken of them without consent are being increasingly distributed and mocked online. They're sick of it and want the wider public to help call it out.

The eSafety Commissioner's fight against X over videos of the Wakeley stabbing just got messier, with two new groups from the other side of the world granted leave to join the case.