Older Australians losing independence as everyday services go online

The digital divide means the responsibility is falling to loved ones, neighbours, and retirement village staff to bridge the gap for older Australians.

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Data Centers Are a Distraction

What humanity needs is an international AI nonproliferation treaty.

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What Australia's Privacy Act reforms mean for the tech you use - ABC listen

Australia's proposed Privacy Act reforms are some of the boldest changes to privacy law we've seen in years. How could it change the tech we use every day? And does this mean Australia is setting a ne...

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Alice in Wonderland Says Thank You

Alt: Alice in Wonderland, the Disney cartoon version, who is blonde with a blue dress and a white petticoat, curtsies.

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Australia needs renewable energy fast – but building it is only half the battle

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How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat

When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.

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This man was secretly snapped by someone with smartglasses. He’s not alone in calling that a violation of privacy

The backlash to what some dub ‘pervert glasses’ is growing – but people living with disabilities point out the new tech can also be life-changing * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast One summer day earlier this year, Rhys left a Collingwood cafe in Melbourne where he had been working remotely, when his phone pinged with a message on the dating app Grindr. The message was a photo of him sitting at a table outside the cafe on his laptop, with his dog seated on the ground next to him. In the foreground, in a man’s hand was an iPhone unlocked. Continue reading...

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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI

The Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative long-form journalism.

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Howzat? Merv Hughes biography among books suspected to have been fed to AI - ABC listen

A folksy Congresswoman is taking on a progressive Muslim dubbed the Mamdani of the Midwest in the high stakes Democratic primary in the US state of Michigan — which is being seen as a referendum on th...

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What happens to our moral lives when we stop reading books? - ABC listen

According to every available metric, the number of people who read books across almost every demographic in countries like Australia and the United States has fallen precipitously over the last fiftee...

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What if data centres weren't so ugly? - ABC listen

They're big, ugly and noisy, and no one wants to live near them. But what if we've got the design of data centres all wrong? What if we started from the premise that data centres need to live within o...

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A fake Jihadist stole my identity

ANALYSIS: Labor’s plan for a digital duty of care confers too much responsibility on a single, small regulator and it will take a multifaceted network to reduce harmful content online.

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Meta-backed research finds exposure to ‘untrustworthy’ social media is rare. The fine print is less reassuring

There is a risk this study will be leveraged by big tech platforms to exhonerate themselves.

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Four Corners: S2026 The AI Race

Artificial intelligence is already changing how we live and work, while being sold as the technology that could cure disease, transform productivity and solve some of the world's biggest problems. Ste...

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Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV

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The dangers of AI-airbrushed nostalgia

As artificial intelligence facilitates an idealistic re-rendering of the good old days, this ‘airbrushed’ past is being used to politicise nostalgia and incite outrage over a ‘lost Australia’.

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What age is best for a child’s first smartphone? - ABC listen

Parents of younger children and early adolescents can face pressure to allow them their own smart phone, with concerns around mental health effects and sleep disruption.  A new study looks at what ha...

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A practical answer to Australia’s AI ethics vacuum

As Australia shies away from meaningful AI regulation, a new framework offers a practical way to embed human moral responsibility at the centre of AI use.

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Announcing The Emerging Voices in AI & Society Fellows Program

For AI to serve humanity’s best interests, we need more thoughtful, diverse voices shaping the story we tell about it.

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The Age of Reading Is Over

Can civilization survive the postliterate era?

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The Telstra outage fallout

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‘Software glitch’ blamed for mass outage – as it happened

The day’s events as they happened

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Why France is ditching tech giants Palantir and Microsoft - ABC listen

Both France and Germany are switching from US tech surveillance company, Palantir to French firm ChapsVision, citing a need for digital sovereignty amid security concerns over sensitive data being eas...

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A girlfriend who never existed and fake friends. How Graham became a money mule

Graham Guy was the victim of a romance scam and had his bank accounts drained over several years. Then came an unusual request that unwittingly drew him into crime.

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Europa — Lars von Trier’s beautifully confused reinvention of form

Just after WWII, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive…

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