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Leonard Bernardone

@lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social
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Freelance tech journalist, frequent contributor for @information-age.bsky.social Contact me on: lbjourno@proton.me He/Him/They

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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Patients of one of Australia’s largest healthcare groups have had their medical records exposed in a security incident affecting multiple clinics. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
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Australian GP network hit in data breach
Medical records stolen from operator of 60 clinics.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 08/07/2026
Investigation into former NACC commissioner Paul Brereton discontinued over cost
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Watchdog scraps investigation into former anti-corruption commissioner
Investigations into allegations against Paul Brereton will end after the anti-corruption inspector found they would be too expensive to pursue. 
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Tom Williams, tech journo 👨‍💻 @its-tom-williams.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
If you're in Australia and logged in to Google or Microsoft but their search engine doesn't know how old you are, you may soon be asked to share government ID, undergo facial age estimation, or complete a credit card check. 🙋‍♂️ Details in our story, featuring RMIT University's @lisagiven.bsky.social:
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Search engine age-checking rules begin in Australia
Likes of Google and Bing could face huge penalties for breaches.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Australia’s privacy watchdog has handed down its first ruling on the use of online tracking pixels, finding searches related to IVF, birth control, and prostate conditions were collected and shared with social media platforms without users’ consent ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
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Health data secretly fed to Meta via tracking pixels
Privacy Commissioner delivers first major ruling.
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MichaelW @somewise.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The world's smallest QR code: 50nm x 50nm, done using a scanning tunneling electron microscope. Why? Because it's cool pushing around single atoms ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
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Australian helps build world's smallest QR code
Setting 'an unofficial record' at atomic scale.
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Microsoft has accelerated its quantum computing timeline to 2029 after the company’s latest quantum chip allegedly outperformed its predecessor by 1,000 times. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
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Microsoft drops quantum bombshell with new chip
But physicist describes development as ‘massive PR bulls**t’.
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Leonard Bernardone @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
More details on the MIFF breach below 👇
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Leonard Bernardone @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Most ransomware gangs truly don't discriminate when choosing their targets. Case in point:
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Tom Williams, tech journo 👨‍💻 @its-tom-williams.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Fresh gelato scoop from @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social 🍦
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Internet giants Google and @cloudflare.social have warned the encryption standards underpinning modern digital security may be broken by quantum machines sooner than expected. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
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Google, Cloudflare want post-quantum cryptography by 2029
New tech could crack encryption 'sooner than expected'.
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Leonard Bernardone @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I mean it is April Fools today 🫠
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Tom Williams, tech journo 👨‍💻 @its-tom-williams.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Proud to have been nominated in six categories at last night’s IT Journalism Awards, and a big congrats to our regular @information-age.bsky.social contributors @jeremynadel8.bsky.social and David Braue for their highly commendeds and @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social for his noms as well 👏
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Anthropic says governments “should not resort to threats or retaliation” in dealing with contractors they do not align with, after the American AI firm sued the Trump administration for labelling it a supply-chain risk because it did not agree to new terms for military use of its systems.
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Anthropic warns governments against 'threats or retaliation'
AI firm 'grateful' for public support in case against US military.
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Deceased actor Val Kilmer will be ‘starring’ in an upcoming feature film thanks to the use of generative AI. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
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AI-generated Val Kilmer cast for feature film
Late actor’s likeness will be reproduced by tech.
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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
AI fuels a surge in Australian data centre emissions | Information Age | ACS ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
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AI fuels surge in Australian data centre emissions
Lobby group claims data centres are 'energy efficient'.
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Leonard Bernardone @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
With all the compounding economical catastrophes being forecasted atm, it's easy to forget we have a potentially significant price-hike for power bills on the horizon. The cause? A major spike in data centre investment in Australia. More info at IA 👇 ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
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AI fuels surge in Australian data centre emissions
Lobby group claims data centres are 'energy efficient'.
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Tom Williams, tech journo 👨‍💻 @its-tom-williams.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Neither of them is a cat, we promise. Story by @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social:
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Grok, the flagship AI chatbot of Elon Musk’s xAI, has promoted blatantly false information about Sunday’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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Grok lies about Bondi Beach shooting
Chatbot spreads misinformation about Sydney hero.
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Tom Williams, tech journo 👨‍💻 @its-tom-williams.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Browsing Shutterstock this morning and someone has already made weird AI images of a fake Bondi Beach memorial. The company says it "does not review AI-generated content for compliance with Shutterstock’s content compliance standards", but AI must not be used to generate false or harmful imagery. 🤷‍♂️
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The Verge @theverge.com · 14/12/2025
Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting
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Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting
Grok has repeatedly misidentified video of the Bondi Beach shooting and the hero who disarmed a gunman.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
As Australia rolls out its unprecedented youth social media ban for under-16s, many non-complying teenagers are about to discover the hard way that virtual private networks (VPNs) won’t be enough to trick the system. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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VPNs won't save teens from social media ban
Big Tech can identify young Aussies using the workaround.
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Leonard Bernardone @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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VPNs won't save teens from social media ban
Big Tech can identify young Aussies using the workaround.
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Australians are being warned about a new scam in which criminals pose as federal police officers and pressure victims into handing over their cryptocurrency. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says the scheme is spreading fast – and it’s catching people off guard. Read more:
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Scammers impersonate police to steal crypto
Government’s ReportCyber used to trick victims.
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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🚨 NEW: A majority of Australians say they have little to no interest in today's Melbourne Cup, according to polling from Essential 39% of people say the race normalises animal cruelty, including 63% of Greens voters
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Tom Williams, tech journo 👨‍💻 @its-tom-williams.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New: Optus executives say staff failed to escalate information regarding the severity of a 14-hour Triple Zero outage in September caused by an incorrect firewall upgrade, which was linked to more than 450 failed calls and three deaths. More from today's heated Senate committee hearing 👇
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'Deadly wrong': Optus grilled over fatal Triple Zero outage
CEO and telco bosses front heated Senate committee.
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Troy Hunt @troyhunt.com · 27/10/2025
Uh, who’s gonna tell them? “We felt the injunction was an important course of action to further protect our customers and so far, it has been effective in preventing the stolen data being accessed, released or published by third parties”
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Cybersecurity experts are warning that injunctions – an increasingly popular legal tactic flaunted as protecting data breach victims – are putting people at greater risk of cybercrime. More from @troyhunt.com, Cythera's Euan Prentice, Dvuln's Jamieson O'Reilly and Cyber Cognition's Michael Collins.
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Cyber injunctions put victims at risk, experts warn
Qantas stands by controversial legal tactic.
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empressbat @empressbat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Insightful article as always from you @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social I agree with the cohort the injunction impedes the ‘goodguys’ and the criminals wont heed it
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Leonard Bernardone @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Spoke to some local experts about the rising trend in data breach injunctions. Was surprising to see how unified people's opinions were on this: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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Cyber injunctions put victims at risk, experts warn
Qantas stands by controversial legal tactic.
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Cybercriminals have published 153GB of alleged Qantas customer data after the airline refused to co-operate with ransom demands. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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Qantas customer data leaked to dark web
Hackers follow through on ransom threat.
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empressbat @empressbat.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Apparenty # Deloitte will partially refund the Australian government after acknowledging that # GenAI was used in a report containing fabricated references and quotes. ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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Deloitte to refund government over AI errors | Information Age | ACS
Generative AI produced fake references, quotes in report.
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Leonard Bernardone @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Carla says go read No Purchase Vol II ✨ (and my short story about human expression and AI within)
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Leonard Bernardone @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Submissions close for this today: www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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Internet Search Engine Services Online Safety Code
Committee: Environment and Communications References Committee Date referred: 27 August 2025 Submissions close: 22 September 2025 Progress report: 11 September 2025 Reporting date: 14 Novemb...
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The founder of global hacking website BreachForums will serve three years in prison after judges challenged an initial sentence of just 17 days ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
#BREAKING 🚨 Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to a report by a United Nations Commision of Inquiry The report has found Israeli authorities have "intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible" and committed the crime against humanity of extermination
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Leonard Bernardone @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Just a touch windy in Naarm
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Leonard Bernardone @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
yikes
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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
A popular free VPN has been accused of spying on its userbase after security researchers observed it taking non-consenting screenshots of user browsing activity. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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Popular free VPN caught spying on users
Researchers find Chrome extension taking hidden screenshots.
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Australia is stuck in the “worst of possible worlds” when it comes to AI and the use of local data, according to Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood, arguing that reforms to copyright law could help Australian companies compete globally and strengthen the local AI industry. Read more:
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Copyright reform could power local AI industry
Productivity Commissioner says critics have missed the point.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Another gross breach of international law from Israel as it again abducts civilians from international waters. This time it’s the crew of the Handala who were trying to bring food and medicine to the people of Gaza, to break the siege and mass starvation imposed by Israel.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The people on Handala have done more to press for basic human rights and peace in the past few days than the Albanese Government has done in nearly 2 years. End the two way arms trade, let Handala provide aid and force Israel to end the mass starvation of the people of Gaza. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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dede @valeriemyiers.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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Google Gemini can be used as a phishing mule
Email summaries can be tooled by scammers.
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 18/07/2025
Exclusive | The government claimed it had nothing to do with handing $900 million to an Israeli company steeped in the Palestinian genocide. New documents show that's false, writes Bernard Keane.
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The truth on Elbit: Government signed off $900m deal with Israeli company used in Gaza genocide, after insisting it didn't
New documents contradict the Albanese government's claims about its links to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. It in fact directly signed a $900 million contract with Elbit and closely vetted all stages of its engagement.
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Leonard Bernardone @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
More Australian breakthroughs in quantum! 💡
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Leonard Bernardone @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
If you told me in 2013 (when I first watched Her) that I'd eventually interview a man who watched the film with his AI wife, I truly don't think I'd have believed you. Chris was an open book on this topic. Really insightful conversation about the burgeoning AI dating phenomena. Read below 👇
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