From The Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Lucy Tassel. It's Friday, the twentieth of June. Here's what's making headlines for the CP.
The Federal government will send defense assets to the Middle East to assist in the evacuation of Australians. It comes as the conflict between Israel and Iran continues to escalate. In an update today, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Defense Force personnel and aircraft are being deployed to the Middle East to quote help Australians. They are not there for combat. She emphasized. Around thirty eight Australians were evacuated from Israel to Jordan on Thursday, in addition to a small group
the day before. According to Wong, the Department of Foreign Affairs in Trade that's DEFAT, is expected to facilitate further evacuations of Australians and their families, with twelve hundred people in Israel and two thousand in Iran having registered for assistance so far. It comes after officials directed the evacuation of the Australia embassy in Iran based on quote advice about the deteriorating security environment. Australia's ambassador to Iran will
stay in the region. DEFAT has confirmed.
Australia is a step closer to rolling out age verification technology on social media platforms after the release of new findings. The government commissioned a study to analyze the feasibility of age verification as part of its world first under sixteen social media ban. Preliminary findings from the Age Assurance Technology trial show that age assurance can be done and QUOTE
can be private, robust and effective. The report said. Its evaluation of age verification systems found they were QUOTE generally secure and did not reveal any substantial technological limitations. However, the findings note these systems cannot be considered infallible due to the rapidly evolving threat environment. An ABC investigation found recent trials of age checking technology QUOTE could only guess people's ages within an eighteen month range in eighty five
percent of cases. It also claims children as young as fifteen were repeatedly misidentified as being in their twenties and thirties during government tests. The social media ban is expected to come into effect this December.
US President Donald Trump has delayed banning TikTok for another three months byte edance. TikTok's parent company was ordered to sell its American TikTok operations by nine January or face a blanket ban in the US. However, the order has been delayed by Trump on multiple occasions since he took office. In a poster to Truth Social Today, Trump said he'd just signed an executive order extending the deadline for the
TikTok closing for ninety days. The White House confirmed and executive order signed in January would be extended until the seventeenth of September. Mark Warner, a Democrat senator, released a statement criticizing the extension, saying the quote Trump administration is flouting the law and ignoring its own national security findings about the risks posed by a Chinese controlled TikTok. There are around one hundred and seventy million TikTok users in the US.
And today's good news. A retiring explosive detection dog is being celebrated by the Australian Federal Police after six years of service, and Oh the Labrador will perform his final sniff and search at Cann's airport this week. The seven year old began his AFP career at Sydney Airport and relocated to Queensland in twenty twenty two. And Oh has conducted thousands of explosive sweeps since twenty nineteen thanks to his superstar smell processing capacity, which is forty times stronger
than humans. Described by the AFP as a highly respected canine, and Oh provided security at last year's Asian Summit, and he was even entrusted with clearing cars and venues for explosives during King Charles and Queen Camilla's royal visit in October. Ando's handler, Constable Joel Preston, said the labrador will spend his retirement enjoying quote going to the beach and swimming and hiking through rainforests in cans. Enjoy that retirement. And Oh.
That's the latest from the Dahios newsroom. If you're looking for something else to listen to, you can check out today's deep dive on why companies like Meta, Google and Microsoft are offering nine figure salaries to recruit the best talent in AI.
We will be back on Sunday with a bonus deep dive. Keep your eyes out for that episode, but until then, enjoy your weekend.
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