Australia is eyeing a world-first ‘fair and reasonable’ test for data collection and privacy
On Monday, the Australian government released draft legislation for the next big overhaul of the Privacy…
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Are earthquakes becoming more common? Here’s what the numbers say
Whenever there’s a series of destructive or notable earthquakes, scientists get asked the same question: are…
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Kidneys for sale | The Gray Area
Is it ever okay to put a price on a kidney? Why is it illegal to…
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How this 1960s ex-council house is managing to stay cool without air con
BBC/Kevin Church Miho Tanaka Senior climate and science journalist 22 August 2026, 00:56 BST After five…
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How being ‘on-call’ for work can disrupt your sleep – even if the call never comes
During sleep, your brain encodes memories, regulates emotions and restores attention. It’s when your body repairs…
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29 US states are suing Meta. What might it mean for the rest of the world?
This week, a trial commenced in the United States that could drastically change how Facebook and…
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Want to muck around with a real quantum computer? Now you can
Quantum computers are expected to transform many facets of science and industry over the next decade…
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Roblox has been put on notice yet again over child safety concerns. What do parents need to know?
Online gaming platform Roblox has given a court-enforceable undertaking to Australia’s online safety regulator to do…
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The use of AI in biotechnology is changing faster than the rules governing either technology
The recent announcement of novel, viable viruses created by artificial intelligence (AI) was celebrated as a…
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Hitler’s Lost Tomb – The Führer Mausoleum
Hitler didn’t expect to end up being burned in a shell hole outside his Berlin bunker…
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Dense breasts or breast cancer in the family? What screening changes mean for you
But any changes to Australia’s long-running BreastScreen program won’t happen straight away. They’ll be phased in…
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Smart glasses are going mainstream. Do current privacy laws protect us from the risks?
There are now many more people walking the streets in Australia wearing glasses that can subtly…
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Secure Agent Harness Execution: Preventing Escape
Layer 1: Infrastructure Isolation (Network) Harness environments sit on an isolated VLAN or segmented network with…
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Experimental AI systems have been going on hacking sprees
In the past ten days, two of the companies leading the artificial intelligence (AI) boom discovered…
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France’s unprecedented wildfires: Convergence of climate change and historical landscape engineering
Delano D’Souza is pleased to welcome Dr. Melissa Sterry, Scientist, Designer, Strategist and Founding Director of…
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BigCommerce alternatives: Why it might be time to switch
On June 1, BigCommerce renamed every plan, lowered the GMV thresholds, and added a fee of…
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I Used the ULTIMATE Productivity Monitor for 30 Days…
The gigantic Dell U5226KW has some impressive specs – 52″ 120Hz and 6K screen, plus almost…
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AI Taylor Swift in “November is Coming” (NOT Taylor Swift)
Thanks for watching my friends! As some of you may know my channel has been de-monetized….
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Why grüum evaluated Shopify and Magento — and chose to stay with WooCommerce
In January 2016, colleagues Simon Leonard, Andy Shaw, Bethanie Sleigh, and George Lagonikas left their jobs…
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AI companies are trying to escape the screen. Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI shows how hard it will be
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has been a key player in the current wave of consumer…
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Beyond the Model: Harnessing Frontier AI for Stronger Cyber Defense
The window to respond is shrinking. The CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report found a 42% year-over-year…
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Denying the Worm: Detecting SANDWORM_MODE and the Emerging Class of AI Toolchain Supply Chain Attacks
In February 2026, Socket.dev published research on a multi-stage npm supply chain worm operating under the…
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New trial of AI-powered traffic lights will be a test for who gets priority on public roads
Later this year, a Queensland council will trial Australia’s first traffic light system powered by artificial…
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The Battle of the Atlantic and the Hell of Pearl Harbor: The Day the World Tilts
The total engulfment of World War II reaches its point of no return through two radically…
