1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1103+ words) More than 3,600 people sign petition for careful assessment of proposed AI hub, now a flashpoint for national debate on datacentre boom For some residents it started with a letter in the mailbox. It was a “friendly introduction from the team…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (311+ words) Firm told to treat third-party services that appear in its results in ‘fair and non-discriminatory manner’ Google has been fined a total of €890m (£760m) by the EU for breaches of online competition laws by its search and app store services. The…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (276+ words) The neo-luddites are fighting the good fight. But my life before smartphones felt lonelier and more dangerous A wider neo-luddite movement is gathering momentum. You may have read about gen Z prioritising IRL socialising, “going 90s” and adopting offline, old-fashioned hobbies....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (429+ words) One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice People always suspected big tech was greedy, but not quite like this. Patrons of Amazon Web Services have been landed…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (637+ words) Telco outlines reasons for network failure that hit mobiles, trains and retailers ahead of appearance at Senate inquiry Telstra has blamed the lack of a software update for a key time-keeping system for outage that caused nationwide chaos last week,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (561+ words) Agreement, without admission of liability, ends 19-month high court dispute that small-business owners said left them with large debts Vodafone has settled a long-running legal claim filed by 62 of its former franchisees who alleged the mobile phone group “unjustly enriched…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (91+ words) The Guardian Social media curfew for teens: is it pointless? - The Latest Sixteen- and 17-year-olds face an overnight social media curfew in an extension of the government’s social media ban for under-16s. Under the plan, aimed at reducing online harms,…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (977+ words) Fallout over the telco’s latest national outage continues, with executives called to front a snap meeting of a triple-zero parliamentary inquiry It was a missed message on Microsoft Teams and a voicemail from Telstra’s head of operations that brought the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1029+ words) The telco has long banked on its reputation as having the most stable, widest mobile telco coverage. That is now badly dented Telstra has long profited from its reputation of having the largest and most stable mobile telco coverage in…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (231+ words) The communications minister, Anika Wells, says Telstra must 'face the music' and rebuild public trust after its nationwide outage, vowing that the government will hold the telco to account. She says Telstra should provide an expedited process for customers seeking…...