Byte Into IT Triple R Podcasts

The Byte Into It crew say goodbye to presenter Jo Eaton, discuss digital rights with chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia John Payne and chat with Jen Payne founder of STEMpals (stempals.org.au)

Dan and Lilly are joined by special guests Susan Carter, the new Director of Code for Australia chatting about solving civic issues and driving positive change, and Eric Jong on delivering researcher training on 3D Print and Design. Plus the team dig through through updated news on Apple's partnership with OpenAI, and all the weird tech news of the week! A fan of Roblox? IKEA might have the job for you!

Vanessa Toholka and Dan Salmon discuss recent tech news, such as Medibank being taken to court, a DdOS attack of the Internet Archive, the breaking of Ticketmaster's monopoly and more. They also get into their thoughts on travel for the holidays.

Hosts, Vanessa Toholka and Dan Salmon chat with Louie Roots and Mads Mackenzie about the return of Freeplay Independant Games Festival and new 'Angles' Conference, bringing game creatives together for events throughout June. They also have a chat with Deputy Director of Enterprise AI and Data analytics hub at RMIT, Chao Chen on AI evolving and how we can keep ourselves safe.

Nick Thorpe & Ethan Thorpe join the show to discuss the launch of the Live Music Locator - a new website service tracking every gig in every venue across Naarm, partnering with the City of Yarra as well as the Leaps & Bounds Festival. Later, Laura Summers & Linda McIver from the Australian Data Science Education institute chat about teacher guides for AI, a survey for teachers to fill out to help guide their resources.

Lilly Ryan and Dan Salmon chat to Sarah Vivienne Bentley, Research Scientist for CSIRO, on her new article for The Conversation on how the digital divide is already hurting people's quality of life and will AI make this better or worse? The team also get to chat to Amelia Johns, Associate Professor at the University of Technology of Sydney, about how conspiracy theorists get around Facebook/meta's content moderation policies and how much more can be done for content moderation.