#Facebook rejects talks with Australia publisher, may test online law

#Facebook rejects talks with Australia publisher, may test online law

“#Facebook rejects talks with Australia publisher, may test online law” Australia’s competition watchdog is looking into a claim that Facebook refused a publisher’s request to negotiate a licensing deal, the regulator told Reuters, setting the stage for the first test of the world’s toughest online content law. The Conversation, which publishes current affairs commentary by academics, said…

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# Aussie state government blockchain platform may prevent a tower block inferno

# Aussie state government blockchain platform may prevent a tower block inferno

“# Aussie state government blockchain platform may prevent a tower block inferno ” Big Four accounting firm KPMG has partnered with Australian property developers Mirvac to develop a blockchain-based platform to track the provenance of buildings.  The platform was commissioned by the New South Wales state government. Taking inspiration from supply chain initiatives to track…

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#Australia to fine tech giants, jail users over abusive posts

#Australia to fine tech giants, jail users over abusive posts

“#Australia to fine tech giants, jail users over abusive posts” Tech giants like Facebook, Twitter and Google will be forced to swiftly remove abusive online posts or face stiff fines under a tough new law passed by the Australian government on Wednesday.  The bold new legislation, called the Online Safety Bill, gives the country’s regulators…

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#Australia fights UN downgrade of Great Barrier Reef health

#Australia fights UN downgrade of Great Barrier Reef health

“#Australia fights UN downgrade of Great Barrier Reef health” CANBERRA, Australia — Australia said Tuesday it will fight against plans to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status due to climate change, while environmentalists have applauded the UN World Heritage Committee’s proposal. The committee said in a draft report on Monday that “there is…

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#Pacific undersea cable project sinks after U.S. warns against Chinese bid

#Pacific undersea cable project sinks after U.S. warns against Chinese bid

“#Pacific undersea cable project sinks after U.S. warns against Chinese bid” SYDNEY/BEIJING, June 18 – A World Bank-led project declined to award a contract to lay sensitive undersea communications cables after Pacific island governments heeded U.S. warnings that participation of a Chinese company posed a security threat, two sources told Reuters. The former Huawei Marine Networks, now called HMN Technologies and majority owned by Shanghai-listed…

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#New dinosaur species discovered in Australia

#New dinosaur species discovered in Australia

“#New dinosaur species discovered in Australia” Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new dinosaur species in Australia, one of the largest found in the world, more than a decade after cattle farmers first uncovered bones of the animal. The plant-eating sauropod lived in the Cretaceous period between 92 million and 96 million years ago…

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# Two-fifths of Aussie millennials think crypto investments beat real estate

# Two-fifths of Aussie millennials think crypto investments beat real estate

“# Two-fifths of Aussie millennials think crypto investments beat real estate ” Research has revealed that one in five Australians believe that crypto is the key to homeownership as confidence in traditional savings dwindles. The survey, conducted by cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, found that an increasing number of young Australians are becoming disheartened by traditional investment…

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#Australia finds Indian variant in latest COVID-19 outbreak

#Australia finds Indian variant in latest COVID-19 outbreak

“#Australia finds Indian variant in latest COVID-19 outbreak” Australian health authorities are hunting for the source of a highly infectious variant of COVID-19 detected in a new cluster of cases in the southern state of Victoria. The nation’s second-most populous state on Saturday reported five new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, bringing the latest outbreak in…

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#Twitter begins rolling out product to undo tweets

#Twitter begins rolling out product to undo tweets

“#Twitter begins rolling out product to undo tweets” Twitter Inc on Thursday said it will roll out a new subscription product initially in Australia and Canada called Twitter Blue, which will let paying users edit their tweets before posting and change the color theme of their app. Details of the feature were first uncovered last month by software engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who is well-known in…

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