Electric cars outsold petrol cars in Australia for the first time in August. Battery-electric vehicles hit 27,078 sales, or 24.9% of the new-car market, ahead of both petrol (25,824) and diesel (23,608).
The Tesla Model Y topped every model on sale….
The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.
Eight months into the world’s first under-16 social media ban, 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 are still using TikTok, one percentage point below where the figure sat before the law took effect. The data comes from the parental control softwar…
Australia will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts from Monday. The song that prompted the rule was still sitting at number four on Tuesday. The Australian Recording Industry Association set the test in a statement. A track qu…
The Australian government intends to impose national energy standards on AI data centres at this week’s National Cabinet meeting even though Queensland will not agree to them, a shift from the consensus approach that stalled when Queensland and the Nor…
Australian data centres will take 13% of the country’s main electricity market by 2035-36, up from 3% today. That is almost a sevenfold rise in a decade, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator. Keira Wright reported the forecast for Bloombe…
Australia’s parliament passed the News Bargaining Incentive on Thursday, closing a five-year argument that began when Meta worked out it could avoid paying for news by simply not carrying any. The new law removes that option. Platforms with a significa…
Meta is running a global campaign to push back against laws that would ban teenagers from social media, according to a new investigation by the Tech Transparency Project. The effort relies on paid influencers and funded parent groups, the watchdog said…
Alphabet priced its first Australian dollar bond on Wednesday at A$5.5bn, about US$3.9bn, roughly 10% more than the market had pencilled in when the deal was trailed at the start of the week. It is the largest corporate bond sale ever done in the Austr…
Alphabet is preparing to sell its first bond denominated in Australian dollars, a modest-sounding piece of financial housekeeping that says a good deal about how the AI build-out is now being paid for. According to bookrunner messages reported by Reute…