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Planning for your digital legacy shouldn’t take long, but it could save a lot of trouble.

Digital legacy: How to make sure your family is not locked out

Security keeps people out of our documents, photos, financials, and secrets. How do you make sure family can access them if you die?

  • Tim Biggs

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Passkeys are more like keys than passwords. You keep them on your device or secure cloud service, and you never have to send them to a website.

What are passkeys? The end of the password era explained

Passkeys are designed to be the end of “remembering” login credentials. And it may be time to accept them.

  • Tim Biggs
Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind.

Millions of renters hit by unlawful data collection

The Privacy Commissioner’s landmark ruling comes as Australia’s rental market reaches crisis levels.

  • David Swan
Igor (left) and Kira Korolev are charged with preparing to carry out an act of espionage.

Evidence ruled secret to protect national security in case against alleged Russian spies

“The proposed orders only restrict open justice to the extent necessary to do so in the interest of national security.”

  • William Davis
Data centres

The cost of the cloud: Inside Australia’s data centre boom

Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent building data centres all over the planet, as all of us flock to AI. But at what cost?

If nothing else, some of the content on Moltbook is a fun reflection of how AI is often framed in fiction.
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‘Absolute nightmare’: The social network where AI chatbots exchange ideas and gossip about humans

There’s a new social media platform capturing the imagination of millions but also ringing alarm bells. The real danger is not what you might think.

  • Tim Biggs
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Albanese and Morrison shake hands after Morrison’s farewell speech.

Albo is secretive and unaccountable – just like ScoMo

Government secrecy is the worst in a decade. Are we in the third term of the Morrison government?

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Attorney-General Michelle Rowland.

Tax on truth: Coalition, Greens team up to block Labor’s controversial laws

Coalition and Greens senators are set to reject the bill once it reaches the Senate.

  • Nick Newling
A massive trove of (mostly old) data has been uploaded to Have I Been Pwned.

Panic as breached details of 183m accounts, including Gmail, emerge

The news isn’t nearly as bad as some online would have you believe, but it’s always a good idea to check your security.

  • Tim Biggs
An AWS outage has crippled the global internet.

Why one company’s glitch just broke half the internet

When Amazon sneezes, the world catches a cold. It’s time we stopped accepting that as normal.

  • David Swan