Matthew Giannelis

Australians could have their faces scanned and compared against watchlists while doing something as ordinary as buying groceries, raising fresh concerns about how far supermarket surveillance may reach. Privacy campaigners warn that customers and workers could be identified, assessed and tracked inside stores without fully understanding what information is being collected or how long it...

Every day, billions of secure online interactions take place without most people ever thinking about the technology that makes them possible. From online banking and healthcare systems to cloud services and government platforms, trusted digital communications rely on cryptographic infrastructure working quietly behind the scenes. One of the technologies helping to protect those connections is...

The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman is calling for an overhaul of Australia’s telecommunications regulatory framework after finding persistent barriers for consumers living in regional, rural and remote communities. The Ombudsman’s latest report, Left behind: Experiences of telco consumers living in regional, rural and remote Australia, analyses 26,972 phone and internet complaints received over the past two...

ScalaHosting is rolling out a major SPanel upgrade that allows customers to combine multiple servers into a single managed cluster, putting greater emphasis on redundancy, scalability and keeping websites online when infrastructure fails. The new Cluster Management feature allows multiple servers to operate as one SPanel environment, with dedicated roles for web, database and mail...

Digital Marketing’s AI Reckoning: The Old SEO Playbook Has Been Thrown Across The Room

As fuel prices face renewed pressure following the end of the Federal Government’s fuel excise discount, new data reveals Australians are increasingly turning their attention towards affordable electric vehicles as they search for their next car. Research from RACV Car Match shows electric vehicles from Chinese manufacturers BYD and MG claimed all five top positions...

Qantas’s plan to launch the world’s longest commercial passenger flights has been promoted as the next step in international travel, promising Australians direct connections to cities including London and New York without the need for a stopover. The airline’s ambitious Project Sunrise program will use specially configured Airbus A350-1000ULR aircraft to operate flights lasting up...

A Melbourne psychiatrist has reportedly refused to accept new patients who do not consent to having their consultations recorded and transcribed by an AI scribe. The policy has sparked fresh concerns about patient privacy, informed consent and the lack of regulation governing AI use in Australian healthcare. The case has been highlighted in a new...

DIFFERENT TYPES OF TECHNOLOGY - DEFINITIONS AND EXAMPLES IN THE DICTIONARY: The Oxford dictionary defines the word “Technology” as: “The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry”. As per the Collins Dictionary the word “Technology” refers to “methods, systems and devices which are the result of scientific knowledge being used for practical purposes”.What exactly is technology and...

One of the iPhone’s most consequential data-sharing controls is nowhere to be found under Apple’s main Privacy & Security settings. In iOS 26, the switch appears under: Settings > Search > Help Apple Improve Search The setting is enabled by default and allows information about a person’s specific search queries, selected suggestions, app usage, contextual...