5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (186+ words) As the platforms grew in reach and scale, the follower count became shorthand for status and proof of influence. To this day you will see it deployed as evidence of raw power. A politician commands millions of followers, a pop…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (517+ words) Eight months after implementing a ban on under-16s accessing social media services like TikTok, Australia finds its younger users are returning in droves, according to new data from Qustodio. Some 26 per cent of children between the ages of 13 and 15 were…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (228+ words) Why go to the trouble of trying to break in when you can get someone to give you the keys instead? That’s the basic premise underlying cyber credential theft. In this case, credentials mean login details like usernames, passwords or…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (823+ words) Electric Dreams, a film screened in 1984, was one of the quirkier efforts of that era to examine the fears of over-relying on technology. The techno love story involves a regular home computer, named Edgar, developing extraordinary powers that enable it…...