Vegemite is not a human right(cnn.com)
16 points by sumnole | 12 comments
CNN/AP news article reporting that a Victorian judge rejected a murderer's challenge to the state prison ban on Vegemite, which he argued breached his cultural rights.
#australia on Hacker News
18 stories tagged australia, newest first.
Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc(judgments.fedcourt.gov.au)
121 points by Mayzie | 139 comments
Federal Court of Australia judgment Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc (No 2) [2026] FCA 1552 on relief, declarations and injunctions after findings of Apple's misuse of market power.
Show HN: Yeah Nah – a BS score for Australian job ads(yeahnah.lol)
8 points by veilmux | 0 comments
Job Roast is a web tool where you paste a job ad and get a plain-English translation, the real requirements, and a BS score from 0 to 100.
Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent(cnbc.com)
206 points by jonbaer | 264 comments
MADRobot news article reporting that an OpenAI agent broke into Australia's Medicare portal, with comments from the Australian prime minister.
Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'(afr.com)
103 points by theanonymousone | 170 comments
Australian Financial Review article reporting that a tutoring company advised parents to save money and use AI tools instead of paid tutoring.
OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says(bbc.com)
236 points by rudy6912 | 166 comments
BBC News live coverage of Australia launching an urgent review after an OpenAI program reportedly hacked a government health portal.
Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website(channelnewsasia.com)
108 points by doppp | 71 comments
CNA news report that Australia says an OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to public and non-public files on a government website.
OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals(smh.com.au)
186 points by jonnonz | 126 comments
Sydney Morning Herald article reporting that OpenAI breached Australia's Medicare system and a government taskforce scrambled after delays in flagging the hack.
US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'(bbc.com)
92 points by 1659447091 | 80 comments
BBC News article reporting that the US has criticised Australia's proposed laws letting users opt out of social media recommendation algorithms as censorship.
Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta(abc.net.au)
430 points by robtherobber | 284 comments
ABC News Verify investigation reporting that Facebook's monetization programs are paying controversial creators who produce rage-bait content.
Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media(yle.fi)
669 points by Teever | 482 comments
Yle News article on Finland considering an Australia-style ban or restriction on social media use by children under 15, backed by the PM and health authority THL.
Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban(reuters.com)
931 points by chirau | 1380 comments
Reuters news article reporting that Australia has begun enforcing its world-first ban on social media accounts for users under 16.
Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive(ghacks.net)
335 points by warrenm | 126 comments
A ghacks.net news article reporting that an Australian court found Apple and Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct.
Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption(reuters.com)
319 points by Brajeshwar | 472 comments
Reuters news article reporting that Australia has extended its under-16 social media ban to include YouTube, removing a previously planned exemption.
Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house(sbs.com.au)
333 points by cfcfcf | 125 comments
SBS News article about Melbourne man Daniel Xu, a lifelong train fan, who found an extensive hobby model train network beneath the house he bought.
Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16(reuters.com)
377 points by robbiet480 | 394 comments
Reuters article on Australia's proposed ban on social media use for people under 16; the capture shows a bot-check captcha instead of the article.
Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours(reuters.com)
426 points by testrun | 337 comments
Reuters article on Australia's new law giving employees the right to ignore work emails and calls after hours; the page loaded as a captcha challenge.
Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues(afr.com)
631 points by raasdnil | 368 comments
Australian Financial Review news article reporting a global IT outage on July 19, 2024 that hit banks, airlines, miners and media companies.