A bedding company best known for its “bed-in-a-box” mattress has copped a massive fine after an Australian court found it had misled customers about bogus sales and discounts.
Alexandra Feiam
Artificially intelligent chatbots on three popular social networks will share details about what teens ask with their parents under the latest reform.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Stolen Australian identities are selling online for as little as $280 on the dark web, research from online security experts shows.
Blair Jackson
Wild footage has offered an unseen glimpse into the squalid conditions cop killer Dezi Freeman was living in while on the run from police.
Blake Antrobus
An Australian YouTuber previously taken to court by a US gaming figure has now turned the tables with a fresh lawsuit of his own.
Andrew Hedgman and Blake Antrobus
The European Union has announced an app to confirm users' age online, as more countries get moving on plans to restrict children from social media.
Gianluca Lo Nostro
The UN has asked the Australian government to explain an onslaught of violence, rape and doxxing threats directed at anti-gendered violence campaigners.
Australia Post has sounded the alarm over a new type of scam emerging over social media marketplaces, issuing a blunt warning to buyers and sellers.
Andrew Hedgman
A man has revealed the “pathetic” gift one of Australia’s biggest banks gave his mother after she reached almost five decades of service.
Thousands of customers at one of Australia’s big 4 banks have reported “intermittent” issues with attempting to log into their internet banking app.
Australians have been warned about an influx of AI-generated misinformation doing the rounds online.
Telstra has been forced to cut its coverage map by an area greater than the size of NSW, under strict new rules from the regulator.
Emma Kirk
Social media platforms like Facebook and TikTok face millions in fines over revelations they are using “big tech playbook” tactics to undermine Australia’s under-16 social media ban.
Angie Raphael
Losses on gambling and sports scams have tripled as Aussies lost a staggering amount of money to scammers in 2025.
A minister has dismissed criticisms the social media ban is “not working”, insisting platforms are to blame for underage users getting through.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
An inquiry into the Optus outage has revealed millions of triple-0 calls failed to reach emergency services, with officials unable to explain just how many calls did not patch through.
Nathan Schmidt
The Albanese government has quietly rushed through changes to its world-first social media ban as the first major legal test looms.
Optus has suffered yet another nationwide outage which resulted in a handful of triple-0 calls not connecting.
Aussies in one state aged between 16 and 21 years can now apply for digital birth certificates.
Police have made a plea to the public after fake images purporting to show armed police responding to an alleged incident were shared across social media.
NewsWire
Australians are using a simple technological loophole to get around a sweeping block put in place by the owners of one of the world’s biggest adult websites.
Abisha Sapkota
Australia’s internet watchdog is standing firm after a major online rule change came into force for porn websites on Monday.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Pornhub’s parent company has started blocking Australian users from its websites after a major digital change was brought in by parliament.
Google Maps will soon work properly in South Korea after its security-conscious government finally approved the export of map data to overseas servers.
Kim Tong-hyung
