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New emergency siren set to blast Aussie phones in first test
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (413+ words) Mobile phones around the country will blast out a 10-second siren in late July as part of a national test of Australia's new emergency warning system. The $132-million-dollar Aus Alert system will come online in October, the federal government announced…...
US to halt Nvidia AI chip sales to Chinese firms
1+ week, 1+ day ago (458+ words) The US Department of Commerce "has moved to close a potential loophole that may have led companies to export the world's most advanced chips - like Nvidia's most sophisticated Blackwell processors - "to subsidiaries of Chinese companies located outside China." The unexpected…...
Vivid Sydney drone show cancelled after "catastrophic malfunction
2+ week, 12+ hour ago (19+ words) The Canberra Times Vivid Sydney drone show cancelled after "catastrophic malfunction"...
Drone show fail at light spectacular brings safety risk
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (331+ words) Nearly 100 drones have fallen into a famous harbour during a light show, forcing some future events to be cancelled due to safety risks. Sydney's Vivid Festival had promised to light up the night sky through its 23-day program, but technical…...
When the chatbot tells the user to plant a bomb
4+ week, 4+ hour ago (634+ words) The drone's callsign was Red Fang and it had just pinged 300 metres west of Adam Hourican's house. It had been dispatched by x AI, the artificial intelligence company behind Elon Musk's Grok, to help kill Hourican. Or so the chatbot…...
Revealed: locations of Canberra's top five mobile speed camera sites | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
1+ mon, 19+ hour ago (76+ words) Canberra's five highest-earning mobile speed camera locations accumulated over $7 million. See the hotspots and average speeds driving this revenue....
'I just cried': how one traveller lost every photo from two years abroad
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (479+ words) Fabiana De Abreu remembers the precise moment she realised she'd lost her travel memories. "I just cried," she told Explore. "It was horrible." In her early 20s, the Sydney woman spent months travelling through south-east Asia, documenting everything on her phone…...
Awareness is not enough, and a fatalistic attitude to risks will only make things worse
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (1157+ words) Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a time to remind ourselves of the steps we can take to prevent an unwelcome cyber event that can be highly damaging to small and family-owned businesses. The many activities over October remind us that…...
Telstra shares 'fix' for i Phone users who may not be able to call 000
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (327+ words) Apple has provided a solution for some i Phone users who previously could not make or receive calls, including to 000, Telstra said in an update. It comes after the telecommunications company on Wednesday, January 28, said it was investigating an issue…...
One phone, multiple numbers: making sense of e SIMs and virtual lines
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (407+ words) This content is provided by a third party. Mobile communication has come a long way. What started with bulky phones and physical SIM cards has now evolved into sleek devices with e SIMs and virtual numbers. These innovations are not…...