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Denmark becomes first nation to end letter deliveries
42+ min ago (318+ words) Denmark has become the first nation in the world to discontinue public letter delivery due to digitisation. Swedish-Danish postal company PostNord delivered its last letters on Tuesday, local time, ending 401 years of the service. Denmark is one of the most…...
Meta is sued over ads for scams, dangers to children
2+ hour, 54+ min ago (25+ words) The owner of Facebook and Instagram is accused of knowingly exposing users to fraud and being misleading about its efforts to protect children and adults....
‘Deeply sorry’: Optus Triple-0 report released
1+ week, 6+ day ago (172+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs. Optus has released the findings of an independent probe into the deadly Triple-0 outage…...
Review of Optus’ triple-0 meltdown exposes internal failures
1+ week, 6+ day ago (272+ words) A damning report into an outage at Optus " which cut off access to triple-0 services and was linked to four deaths " has exposed a raft of internal problems at the foreign-owned telco, including an internal culture that is a drag…...
The need to be switched on to social media ban scams
2+ week, 1+ day ago (316+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs. Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know that many social media platforms…...
Teens share their diaries from a post social media ban world
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1838+ words) For the past three years, social media has been a constant companion in the lives of best friends Brooke Kober and Jasmin Doherty. It was the first thing the Perth teens looked at when they woke up, and the last…...
Reddit launches High Court challenge to social media ban
2+ week, 5+ day ago (354+ words) Online chat forum Reddit has lodged a legal challenge to Australia's under 16s social media ban just days after millions of teens were booted from ten popular platforms. The case marks the second lawsuit against the policy in the High Court…...
My message to Albo over social media ban: Let me be a parent
2+ week, 5+ day ago (297+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs. I am writing this as a parent first and last As a dad of…...
Bad news for teens as popular new app Lemon8 banned
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (201+ words) Lemon8, a hugely popular new social media app Australian teens were turning to as an alternative to Instagram, is now banned for under 16s. Downloads of the platform, owned by ByteDance along with TikTok, soared in recent weeks as teens sought to…...
Putting Starlink to the test
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (182+ words) On a flight this week from Perth to Doha with Qatar Airways, I finally got to put SpaceX's Starlink high-speed, in-flight wi-fi to the test. I have tried many in-flight connectivity systems over the years, with my interest in IFC…...