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When a gas project can't win on the facts, it goes shopping for a new story. Last week, Woodside's CEO Liz Westcott told a Perth business breakfast that the proposed Browse gas and CCS project could p...

BYV: Media ownership is more concentrated in Australia than in almost any comparable democracy. In the regions, with fewer local voices left, one channel is filling the gap.

Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson

Productivity gains in analysis are getting stuck in physical-world bottlenecks

Misogyny is being mainstreamed and cruelty is being organised. So is solidarity. It's time to understand what is happening, and to stand up and fight.

But they still pose risks.

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There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?

There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate …

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

Path dependency in infrastructure is not just a hardware issue, and Effective Altruism (for all its failings) fills a gap identified by its critics. Plus: form echoes function in the writing of Stephen Jay Gould! And the Gothenburg book fair is inimical to the authorial sensibility!

If LLMs make decision makers feel stupid, maybe they'll stop using them?

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

Strategic air power, even AI-aided, failed yet again in the war on Iran.

Artificial intelligence is coming for the meritocracy.

The design requires less energy to capture CO2 than current systems.

The movement is focused on the idea of “clean” nicotine use, such as pouches, which don’t contain tobacco

Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.

Two books take a deep dive into the hybrid wars over the vital arteries without which most of modern life would grind to a halt

Ever since the end of the cold war, the subject of nuclear war and the profound threat it poses to humanity has suffered a “peculiar invisibility.” This

Bogong moths numbers have surged after years of decline, flying evidence of an ancient transfer of vital nutrients from lowlands to the fragile high country.

Collaborative responses to online attacks on environmental defenders in Brazil, Kenya, Mexico and the Philippines

Digital disruption in governance, referring to various ways that digital technologies are transforming how citizens access services and participate in public life, how information circulates, and how ...