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The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has refused to comply with an order from the Australian eSafety commission to take down content related to the stabbing attack in Sydney, saying it does not violate its rules on violent content.

An Israeli company that makes software for breaking into mobile devices including iPhones, has been publicly shamed by cryptographer Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of the Signal messaging app, who exposed poor security in the software which the company uses.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has made his reaction known to the blocking of news content in the country by Facebook – in a post on Facebook.

Some advertisers who deserted YouTube in the wake of the discovery that racist, anti-Semitic and terrorist videos were running on their ads have returned to using the service, but many prominent names are still holding out.

A lobby group for IT workers has slammed the Coalition government over its proposal to introduce laws to gain access to encrypted communications, saying such moves were completely unworkable.

The Australian Cyber Security Centre has played down the terrorist threat to Western nations on the cyber front, saying such groups currently "pose a low cyber threat".

Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist, is said to be dead on the first of May, 2011, with the date proving to be Mayday, and Osama's Wikipedia entry updated within minutes of the news going global.