Josh Taylor
The Guardian
Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Past articles by Josh:
Bots on X worse than ever according to analysis of 1m tweets during first Republican primary debate
Researchers identify sprawling bot network of 1,305 accounts active during Republican debate and Donald Trump interview → Read More
Australia’s e-safety regulator warned Twitter about rise in online hate speech during voice debate
FoI request reveals watchdog approached platform – now known as X – to discuss voice to parliament referendum but it did not substantially respond → Read More
TechScape: ‘Without the telcos, there is no Netflix’ – the battle between streamers and broadband
An explosion of data use has led to massive infrastructure costs. Is the era of cheap all-you-can-watch content about to end? → Read More
TechScape: With 100 million users, is Threads on course to finish off Twitter?
Meta wants its new rival to be a friendly, news-free space. But with missing features, it might not leave Elon Musk’s platform in the dust quite yet → Read More
TikTok executive admits Australian users’ data accessed by employees in China
Head of data security Will Farrell tells parliamentary committee Australian data accessible ‘on a very strict basis’ → Read More
More scrutiny of Australian financial services licences needed, says parliamentary committee after collapse of FTX
Asic did not assess cryptocurrency trading company’s fitness to hold a licence as it was obtained via transfer → Read More
Twitter traffic sinks in wake of changes and launch of rival platform Threads
Data shows the micro-blogging website has been shedding users since early 2023, not long after Elon Musk’s takeover → Read More
How the Coalition collaborated with ‘friendly media’ to silence robodebt victims
Alan Tudge’s office planned to use sympathetic outlets such as News Corp to counter reporting on scheme, royal commission report reveals → Read More
Threads: how do I sign up and is it any different to Twitter?
Meta’s newest app can be accessed with an Instagram account and looks a lot like its rival → Read More
Donald Trump Jr’s Australian speaking tour delayed, promoter says
Turning Point Australia says appearances of former president’s son in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne postponed ‘due to unforeseen circumstances’ → Read More
Telstra ‘pondered’ unpredictability of Elon Musk’s business decisions before signing Starlink deal
Agreement is the first in the world between a telco and Starlink, with rural and remote mobile service customers set to benefit → Read More
Instagram’s Threads app to launch 6 July as users leave Elon Musk’s Twitter
Interface of Meta’s app appears similar to Twitter, whose tweet viewing restrictions have driven users to join rival platforms BlueSky and Mastodon → Read More
How Twitter’s new drastic changes will affect what users can view on the site
Elon Musk says ‘temporary limits’ address security issues, while some users suspect move is to lift Twitter Blue paid subscriptions → Read More
Twitter faces lawsuit over alleged non-payment for office services in four countries
Australia-based company Facilitate seeks more than A$1m for work done at offices in London, Dublin, Sydney and Singapore → Read More
Humpback whale buried in NSW dunes after stranding on Seven Mile beach
Research suggests buried carcass unlikely to attract sharks so long as it is placed above water table and high tide mark → Read More
Australian DoorDash workers miss out on minimum hourly rate
Local riders for delivery company will not be given the option to be paid by the hour, like their international counterparts → Read More
Taylor Swift tickets: Ticketek reveals ‘queue’ is a lottery as Australian general sales to open Friday
Allocations are not on first come, first served basis but at random once users are in waiting ‘lounge’, says company selling Eras tour 2024 tickets → Read More
Google may have misled dozens of advertisers and violated its own guidelines
Google has said the study makes “extremely inaccurate claims” and stated that advertisers are only paying for ads when they are viewed → Read More
HWL Ebsworth hack: sensitive information from dozens of government agencies may be compromised
Hundreds of law firm’s clients waiting on confirmation of whether they are affected by data leaked in cyberattack → Read More
Major Commonwealth Bank outage prevents some customers from accessing accounts
Several users have reported their Netbank app service is down and their CommBank account balances were showing as zero → Read More