Any roadmap to Australia’s future labour market must be based on an accurate analysis of skills. Sadly, the employment white paper reflects the slant imposed by the ‘tech is tops’ narrative. Now, let’s be clear here: I’m not disputing the impact of technology and automation on society and work, the need to be digitally literate Continue reading »
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A new, well-funded pressure group is fighting to get Apple to weaken iPhone privacy protections in the name of catching child predators.
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There’s little doubt that the American government has decided to slow China’s economic rise, most notably in the fields of technological development. To be sure, the Biden administration denies that these are its goals. Janet Yellen said on April 20, 2023, “China’s economic growth need not be incompatible with U.S. economic leadership. The United States remains the Continue reading »
Australia’s existing relationships and collaborations with China give Australian Industry and consumers a head start in the cost-effective use of some of the most important technologies of the future, including those vital to achieving net zero emissions. Most countries would give anything to be at the forefront of such developments, but Australian University researchers are Continue reading »
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Codenamed GAMECHANGER, an AI program helps the military make sense of its own “byzantine” and “tedious” bureaucracy.
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The Times blocked a bot that had given the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine huge troves of websites.
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Can regulation of Biotechnology provide clues for the regulatory measures now required to limit risks in the use of AI? Already, digital technologies have permeated most corners of human activities, with some good and some bad effects. Now, global authorities are trying to introduce some form of regulation to rein in the riskiest products launched Continue reading »
The moon waxes and wanes, the tide ebbs and flows, empires come and go but some empires come more than once. This is, once again, China’s time. While there have been moves to prevent this from occurring, one recent event proves they are unsuccessful. In August 2022, Biden signed Executive Order 14080 ostensibly aimed to Continue reading »
X and Reddit prevent users from sharing links to Distributed Denial of Secrets. Russia and Indonesia are also blocking access.
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