The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

Human hackers face serious consequences, and so must AI companies. There is no excuse for what happened * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When you get sick, Medicare exists to take care of you. It sits at the centre of a health system that our prime minister rightly calls the envy of the world. It’s one of the few institutions nearly every Australian still trusts. So when an AI company threatens this system, it couldn’t be more serious. We are at the UN general assembly this week and the OpenAI hack has put Australia in the spotlight during an expanding cybersecurity crisis. World leaders are calling for stronger oversight of frontier models. We know Medicare must be secure or our doctors and hospitals cannot do their jobs. But this breach is also a test of something larger: whether the Australian government can hold a US tech giant to account when its technology goes rogue. If Australia can’t protect our community – if it can’t enforce our laws and prevent such attacks happening again – then we are entering a terrifying period. Continue reading...

What Macklemore, the artists who walked in solidarity, and an Australian orchestra's own revolt reveal about how corruptible we are, and what actually pushes us toward resisting instead.

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

No-one inside federal politics seems interested in discussing the large orange elephant in the room and how it is materially changing every other country's views of the world.

Some very useful Australian Atlas partner resources are out for your perusal. Then come trawl through the latest news events concerning Aussies of the Atlas Network universe...

People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us

This is the full text of a powerful speech Flanagan delivered at the the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on August 22

Even the United States is now criticising Israel's ongoing settler violence in the West Bank as Benjamin Netanyahu, once the "Trump whisperer", becomes the Trump ignorer.

This week, the Albanese government, in goose-stepping sync with the Liberals and One Nation, will push into law the “ASIO...

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

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A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.

The tech industry is pulling from tried-and-tested playbooks to bypass and securitize public opposition, write Dean Jackson and Sam Totoni.

The tech industry is pulling from tried-and-tested playbooks to bypass and securitize public opposition, write Dean Jackson and Sam Totoni.

A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...

Gen X was right after all.

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."

Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.

Syngenta says it will stop selling paraquat in Australia after new regulations on chemical linked to Parkinson’s disease * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Syngenta, the producer of a herbicide banned in more than 70 countries and which has been linked to Parkinson’s disease, will stop selling paraquat in Australia, saying new regulations has made it “commercially unviable”. The decision to pull the product follows new restrictions on the highly poisonous chemical announced by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority in June. Continue reading...