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Google has agreed to settle a US lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of users by tracking them even when they were browsing in "private mode".

The European Union has formally announced it suspects X, previously known as Twitter, of breaching its rules in areas including countering illegal content and disinformation.

Five years ago Dr Merja Myllylahti warned our news media were becoming dangerously dependent on global digital platforms which gave them online audiences but undercut their income and didn’t seem to…

Google is the big, intrusive company that we welcome into our lives with open arms because of the way it helps us through our daily lives. Will a ruling from the US say it's gone too far?

Optus chief executive officer Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has stepped down after an outage left 10 million people without mobile or internet service.

Law enforcement agencies say offenders are hiding identities behind encryption and anonymising tools while children are suffering real sexual abuse.

A global intelligence expert says cyber threats are rapidly growing in number and sophistication - designed to cause chaos or leave victims millions of dollars out of pocket.

The disruption has occurred after the country's second-largest telecommunications provider experienced an unexplained nationwide outage.

Major financially motivated cyber attacks in New Zealand have exceeded those launched by nation-states for the first time.

A ChatGPT-style AI assistant embedded into Microsoft Office apps will become available to all from 1 November.

Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, says it will trial charging new, unverified users in New Zealand and the Philippines to use the platform.

By Tony Stamp: The art of criticism is being threatened by a new wave of social media-savvy disruptors.

An AI advisory group has been set up to help courts and judges, and will start with the benefits and pitfalls posed by the likes of Chat GPT.