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AI data centre boom masks a far greater threat

The data centre boom is fuelling an AI race with potentially catastrophic consequences.  
Mobile roaming must be part of Australia’s communications resilience

Australia needs a layered communications system in which different technologies and providers can ...  
NBN’s success vindicates original vision — but the job's not done

NBN Co's FY26 results demonstrate the transition from copper to fibre is producing the bene ...  
Australia’s extraction machine goes digital

Australia’s colonial extraction economy has gone digital, using fear, AI hype and worker expl ...  
Why Trump and Musk may be snotty alien gamers in a simulated human reality

Ever thought reality didn't seem quite real? Well, modern science's increasingly supported ...  
Australia needs AI skills — not just more data centres

Data-centre approvals should reflect demonstrable demand, energy availability and rapidly changing ...  
Big Tech tightens its grip on Australia’s undersea cables

As Google and Meta expand their control of vital undersea infrastructure, Australia risks surre ...  
AI near misses: The space between potential and catastrophe

The goal is enough AI near-miss transparency to show what went wrong, who noticed, who acted and ...  
Big Tech: When 1984 meets The Godfather

The development of AI is inevitable, but when Nineteen Eighty-Four meets The Godfather in real ...  
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EDITORIAL: Big Tech — When 1984 meets The Godfather

It's obvious that technology will evolve and that the development of artificial intelligence is i ...  
Climate change rebellion, anyone? Aussie Gen Z says...Meh!

Why are the young often quiescent when their very lives and future livelihoods are in real dan ...  
AI job applicant screening — the law still applies

We were promised the machine would make hiring fairer. Instead, it made the unfairness quieter.  
Sky infrastructure: Starlink, Australia and the dynamic global telecommunications order

No longer niche — one in five rural households that switched broadband providers in the past ...  
AusAlert test exposes the need for a fully integrated national warning system

Monday's AusAlert test begs the question: what should constitute the gold standard for a nati ...  
Artificial inequality in the age of AI

AI is accelerating a divide that decades of economic policy and asset inflation have already ...  
Plastics are still a problem and there's room for improvement with green alternatives

How green are plastic alternatives? What about those LEGO bricks?  
AI resilience is the next step after the Government's AI regulatory framework

Australia is regulating AI. But who is planning for AI resilience?  
Digital sovereignty and the danger of the off switch

Australia's future should not depend on the goodwill of any single foreign government or comp ...  
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