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The federal government has doubled down on its decision to give YouTube a carve-out from the teen social media ban, despite privately assuring rival platforms that "no final decisions" have been made, the ABC can reveal.

Many of us have tussled online with internet trolls but did you know that trolling has its roots in Ancient Greece?

When voter Peter Magor received an unsolicited campaign email from the Liberal Party, he assumed he could unsubscribe. But the link to do so directed him to a Liberal Party website with no option to do so.

A single bot generated and published millions of articles on the largest non-English version of Wikipedia. The results caused a rift among editors — and a glimpse of what the online encyclopedia might face from AI.

Tech giant Meta used millions of pirated books by Australian authors including Hannah Kent, Charlotte Wood and Tim Winton to train its AI language model.

Artificial intelligence has crept into almost every corner of our lives. So with the federal election looming, BTN High speaks to young people about how they think it will influence voting and how to tell if it's the real deal.

Privacy rights have been raised after a content creator from the United States covertly filmed women in Sydney using smart glasses. These are your rights when it comes to being filmed or recorded in public.

An American man filmed women in Sydney's east with recording glasses and posted the footage to social media without the women's consent. 

Digital rights group Noyb says the chatbot generated inaccurate personal data, violating EU privacy rules.

Silicon Valley, whose top executives have cultivated close relationships with Donald Trump, is now pushing him to pressure Australia to relax its regulations or risk retaliation. 

OpenAI says its latest chatbot should make fewer "hallucination" errors based on a measurement system the company devised. So how does it work, and what does it show?

Tasman Peninsula residents say poor telecommunications infrastructure is leading to delayed emergency responses and is hurting small businesses. The Albanese government has promised to rollout better coverage if re-elected.

The future rarely unfolds like we expect. Although Hollywood has given us plenty of technological tropes to worry about, our AI future is much more mundane and much more insidious.

AI-powered voice recognition software is helping my career as a journalist and my studies, but it's not without risks.

Meta says its new underwater cable project is longer than the Earth's circumference — and one expert says it's "very feasible".

The number of posts containing slurs doubled and the number of bot accounts also increased, new research by a California team suggests. 

In regional and remote Australian communities, Starlink is becoming the internet provider of choice but with that comes fears of what happens when they are forced to rely on Elon Musk?

Physical credit cards, numberless or not, will soon become redundant, as biometric payment options become more popular. 

Plans to toughen online safety requirements for big tech platforms are on ice after the federal government's hand-picked expert recommended threatening Meta, Apple and Google with billions of dollars in fines.

China's new open-source AI chatbot DeepSeek has stoked pride at home but prompted concerns about censorship and data security abroad.