A clever website purporting to show the difference between the speed of Labor’s NBN and the Coalition’s broadband plan has gone viral — but is it a fair and accurate representation? We fact-check How Fast is the NBN.

Australia’s largest companies say they’re using social media, but they’re not using the networks most Australians use. Twitter rules, ahead of Facebook.

Drug dealing thrives in secret corners of cyberspace, but hackers have interrupted business on The Silk Road — known as the eBay of drugs — with only theories on who’s behind it.

The long campaign to provide Australian women with access to medical abortion will near an end today — but what will an Abbott government do on RU486?

You could have the box seat for the next terrorist attack — whether you like it or not. The Boston bombings and resulting social media storm were a window to the revolution online.

Margaret Thatcher’s state funeral is attracting its share of protesters, most of whom are blithely posting their plans on social media. But the smart ones will turn to encrypted communication.

Melbourne to Sydney by rail in under three hours? Don’t listen to the inflated forecasts of cost and time that the federal government has released today, argues Tim Bohm, president of the Bullet Train for Australia political party. It’s a no-brainer — build it.

Yes, Malcolm Turnbull knows Labor’s NBN policy of fibre to the premises is technically superior than the Coalition’s plan. But he argues this is not the only factor.

MPs in a hearing on medical marijuana have been caught out on Facebook. They say they were paying attention, but is it all a smokescreen? Freelance journalist Serkan Ozturk finds out.

The Defence Force can’t ignore climate change, writes Australian Strategic Policy Institute deputy director Anthony Bergin. A new report outlines the environment-related challenges facing our forces.

Major companies, including Apple and Microsoft, failed to explain their high local prices at last week’s parliamentary inquiry into IT pricing. Consumers should demand more.

Are Australian gamblers getting value for money? Darryl Woodford — a researcher on social media, video games and gambling — writes at Inside Story about the holes in gambling regulation.

Some malicious hackers — potentially from China — hacked the RBA in 2011. But is it really the international online security threat everyone is claiming?