Kooryn Sheaves and Mayor Les Sheather.

The Sydney newspaper banned from council meetings that has its own questions to answer

At first glance,a council’s decision to ban a newspaper from its premises represents a remarkable intrusion on press freedom. But this fight is less cut and dried than it seems.

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Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

Major publishing houses sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg over AI copyright

Hachette,Macmillan,McGraw Hill,Elsevier and Cengage and bestselling novelist Scott Turow have filed a lawsuit alleging that Meta relied on pirated books to train its AI program.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Communications Minister Anika Wells are forging ahead with a plan to make tech giants pay for local journalism.

Albanese risks Trump backlash with plan to make tech giants pay for journalism

The prime minister is pressing ahead with a scheme to make social media giants such as TikTok,Google and Meta funnel up to $250 million into Australian news content.

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Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t budged in Canada. Will he do so here?

Meta will throw the toys out of the cot - again

Local journalism deserves saving. But the scheme designed to save it rests on assumptions that the Facebook and Instagram owner has already demolished,without consequences.

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Tech giants ship more than $14 billion offshore amid AI debate

New filings show the extent to which Google,Meta and Amazon send revenue overseas,as new media laws loom.

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Australian staff on edge as Meta slashes 8000 jobs

Meta is laying off about 10 per cent of its workforce,as it ramps up spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure and highly paid AI-experts.

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Checking the social media accounts of former friends can send you spiralling.

I couldn’t stop stalking a former friend on social media. Then she caught me

I know I’m not alone in turning to social-media stalking as a way of processing negative emotions,especially in the context of friendship or romantic break-ups.

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Stallholders at Her Wardrobe Market at Mount Gravatt were moved on by police on Sunday,April 12.

Police called to second-hand market,showground accuses organiser of trespass

Officers told stallholders at the Her Wardrobe market at Mount Gravatt Showgrounds they had to move on or face “further actions” on Sunday.

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Meta has found its footing on AI. Its rival found something much scarier

Meta spent billions rebuilding its AI program and finally has something to show for it. Anthropic,meanwhile,has something it’s not sure anyone should see.

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Covering western Sydney:how the Herald’s photographer captured Hindu celebrations as locals lit up their homes in Phantom Street,Nirimba Fields,as part of Blacktown City’s Diwali Lights in October.

Western Sydney lost 21 newspapers in a decade. What’s happened in that vacuum?

People need to know – and deserve to know – what’s going on in their neighbourhood.

  • Anthony Segaert