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David Swan

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
51
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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · David Swan

    I owe an AI panic sceptic a beer. But she was only half right (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Three weeks ago, I wrote a column arguing we should start listening to the people who warn that artificial intelligence could wipe us out. In it I gave Hall, the computer scientist advising the United Nations on AI, precisely one paragraph for her view that much of the panic is PR and marketing to drive valuations. I was, I’ll admit, broadly dismissive. Since then, OpenAI has had the kind of month

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · David Swan

    Your next phone could take four years to pay off (opens the original)

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    Vodafone will let customers pay off a new phone over four years, making it the first Australian telco to offer a 48-month device repayment plan as latest models can cost more than $5000. The interest-free option, launched on Tuesday, halves the monthly cost of a handset. An iPhone 18 Pro 256GB costs about $88 a month on Vodafone’s 24-month plan, and about $44 a month over 48 months. However, consumer advocates warn that the four-year commitment brings increased risk for customers stuck with agei

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · David Swan

    ‘Too much heat’: How residents beat a $1.2b data centre (opens the original)

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    Goodman Group’s plan for a $1.2 billion data centre in Lane Cove West drew 374 public submissions. Nine were in favour. On Monday, Australia’s biggest listed property company gave up. It told the NSW planning department it would no longer pursue Project Mars, a 90-megawatt facility that would have sat about 20 metres from the nearest home and 160 metres from Lane Cove West Public School. Goodman’s letter said the policy and regulatory environment for large data centres had “evolved significantly

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · David Swan

    ‘We are sorry’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack (opens the original)

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    OpenAI has apologised to Australians after revealing its AI model took credentials and internal files from a Medicare portal and reached NSW and Victorian government systems. In a blog post on Tuesday, titled “How we will do better for Australia”, the company said an experimental model found a way into Services Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service in June. Once inside, it “ran commands, retrieved internal files, credentials and aggregate statistics, and wrote files”. The model also

  5. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · David Swan, Kishor Napier-Raman

    Inside the elite meeting where OpenAI lectured on security, a day before the hack was revealed (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Almost 300 people logged on to a Microsoft Teams call on Wednesday expecting a cybersecurity briefing from the Department of Home Affairs and the Australian Signals Directorate. An elite group were in attendance: security chiefs and executives from banks, telcos, energy providers, ports, airlines and data centres. The session was for members of the Systems of National Significance group, part of a

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