Tag: Tiktok

Australia’s data centre giants form new industry body

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A new peak body representing Australia’s leading data centre providers has launched to advocate for an industry expecting at least $26 billion in local infrastructure investment by 2030. AirTrunk,...

Govt’s platform tax is back to drive news deals

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Albanese government has revived its plan to force Meta back into deals with news publishers with a backstop tax of more than $100 million a year. A year...

French court probes TikTok for algorithms promoting suicide

Posted on   |  by Geert De Clercq
French judicial authorities have opened an investigation into Chinese social media platform TikTok and the risks of its algorithms pushing young people into suicide. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau on...

Chinese and Russian tech scrubbed from govt systems

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Federal agencies will be legally required to remove technology listed on a new government-wide “deny list” by the end of the month in response to increasingly complex threats of...

Lachlan Murdoch, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison look at TikTok

Posted on   |  by Dawn Chmielewski and David Shepardson
President Donald Trump says that media mogul Lachlan Murdoch and business leaders Larry Ellison and Michael Dell would be involved as US investors in a proposed deal to keep...

Teen social media ban faces a new wildcard: teenagers

Posted on   |  by Byron Kaye
When 13-year-old Jasmine Elkin tried out the age-checking software Australia might use to ban children and teenagers from social media, she was surprised some products could identify a person’s...