Books & arts
11 November 2024
Could artificial intelligence make us less human?
Essays & reportage
6 November 2024
Targeted by hackers and sued by publishers, the Internet Archive continues to push boundaries
National affairs
25 September 2024
Has Big Tech’s big-spending campaign against competition law come to a university near you?
Books & arts
20 September 2024
The erratic owner might have delivered the fatal blows, but he didn’t destroy Twitter on his own
Books & arts
19 September 2024
The great geopolitical struggle of our time, cold war 2.0, is cyber war and proxy war and tech war, economic face-off and nuclear brinkmanship
Books & arts
9 September 2024
Drawing on experiences of personal threat, three women probe the world of online conspiracies
National affairs
27 June 2024
The ABC chair wants to see the broadcaster standing out in a fragmented media landscape
Books & arts
25 June 2024
AI photos are there aplenty, but who is slowing down to look at them?
Books & arts
24 April 2024
Connecting everything to everything else didn’t dissolve power, it embedded it
National affairs
15 November 2023
A High Court decision has added to concerns about jury behaviour that were passed over by a series of appeal judges
Books & arts
6 November 2023
Is Chanel Contos’s Consent Laid Bare part of a trend back to radical feminism — with a twist?
Books & arts
3 October 2023
What does history tell us about automation’s impact on jobs and inequality?
Books & arts
30 August 2023
Are governments creating efficient online systems that don’t make us feel stupid?
Books & arts
28 June 2023
Behind their inexorable rise, mobile phones leave a landscape littered with once-mighty businesses and technological dead-ends
Books & arts
22 May 2023
A necessarily incomplete guide to the prolific philosopher Slavoj Žižek
National affairs
12 April 2023
Mark Butler’s plan to ban personal nicotine imports could be undermined by online prescription services
National affairs
3 April 2023
It’s the lack of intelligence in AI that we should be most worried about, and that requires a different response
Books & arts
17 March 2023
Can computer technology be relied on to increase equality?
National affairs
27 January 2023
The robot can tell you what everyone else thinks — and that creates an opportunity for journalists
Essays & reportage
16 December 2022
ChatGPT produces plausible answers supremely well. And that’s both its strength and its weakness
Books & arts
13 October 2022
Governments haven’t caught up with the fact that the economy has changed forever
Books & arts
10 October 2022
Parents of the Sandy Hook victims took on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones with stunning results
Books & arts
12 September 2022
Have Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens mistaken a symptom for the cause?
International
3 December 2021
China’s army of easily offended young internet-watchers is attracting its own critics
Essays & reportage
29 October 2021
Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes is using his wealth to shake up Australian business and politics
National affairs
25 October 2021
Are Google and Facebook picking and choosing who they’ll deal with under the news media bargaining code?
National affairs
8 October 2021
Did the campaign to punish Melbourne’s daily papers for questioning Dan Andrews’s government hit its mark?
International
4 October 2021
Beijing’s crackdown on niangpao reflects anxieties dating back to Europe’s nineteenth-century incursions
Essays & reportage
1 October 2021
The online retailer expanded massively during the Covid-19 pandemic, but where does that leave the rest of the American economy?
Essays & reportage
13 September 2021
How keyboard warriors are displacing men’s right groups