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‘Can COVID-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?’

It’s not The Register asking. The question comes from the official Australian government vaccine advice service (and the answer is ‘No’)

Greenland's elections just bolstered China's tech world domination plan

Wait... what? Strap in for the story of an Australian rare earth miner, partly owned by China, and worries about uranium dust

Australian ponders requiring multiple IDs to sign up for social media, plus more crypto-busting backdoors

Yes, this could mean Zuck gets your passport and credit card. We’re sure he’ll take care of them properly …

Mullet over: Aussie boys' school tells kids 'business in the front, party in the back' hairstyle is 'not acceptable'

A fine Australian tradition stomped on

Indian MP calls for Australian-style pay for news laws

Calls for YouTube to cough up, plus Facebook and Google

Australian police suggests app to record consent to sexual activity

‘You swipe left and right and there’s another option if you want to have intimacy’ says commissioner

Rupert and Zuck, sitting in a tree, P-A-Y-I-N-G

Facebook signs deal to send cash to News Corporation’s Australian mastheads and Fox News wannabe

Australia, India, Japan, and USA create joint critical tech working group

'Quad' group wants alternatives to China. Also freedom and governance that reflects shared values

Australia picks third fight with Big Tech, this time over browser and search on mobile devices

Regulator keen to know how Android Choice works in the EU, what makes the Google/Apple relationship tick, and if Salesforce buying Slack is a problem

Facebook and Australia do a deal: The Social Network™ will restore news down under and even start paying for it

ANALYSIS Relationship status changes from ‘Separated’ to somewhere between 'In a Domestic Partnership’ and 'It's Complicated'

Australian government fights Facebook news ban by threatening 0.01% of Zuck's ad revenue

Talks continue but pay-for-news law won’t be amended

Australia facepalms as Facebook blocks bookstores, sport, health services instead of just news

Reg writer on the spot reports that life without news links on The Social Network™ is just fine

Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

Analysis + Update As News Corp and Google strike global news payments deal and bill passes lower house

Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai get back on the phone with Australia for more pay-for-news talks

Compulsory arbitration code clears committee without amendments, but cracks show as one major local signs big Google deal

Voyager 2 receives and executes first command in 11 months as sole antenna that reaches it returns to work

Resets clock to avoid going into safe mode

Microsoft tells Biden administration to adopt Australia’s pay-for-news plan

Making Google and Facebook cough up could help USA’s currently fragile democracy, argues Pres Brad Smith

Facebook and Google’s Australian pay-for-news nightmare finds a European admirer

MEP driving EU’s Digital Services Act backs down under cash dangle plan

‘Quad’ nations sign up for meta think-tank to advance ‘Techno-Democratic Statecraft’

As China bristles, USA, Japan, India, and Australia create forum to explore the intersection of tech and regional security

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