Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions

Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions

Why is Australia stuck in an inflation problem that has sent interest rates to 15-year highs?

Monoculture has always been a fiction!

Gardasil 20-year anniversary story.

Fires also blaze in Croatia, Germany and France as extreme heat continues to grip Europe today * Four taken to hospital and homes damaged in West Midlands fires We are getting a bit more detail about the terrifying fire in the Croatian seaside town of Omiš. Some 300 Czech tourists are among the 1,000 evacuees, Czech media reported, with a Czech police officer sent to coordinate the emergency response. Continue reading...

Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely The extreme heat and drought stoking huge wildfires in Spain and France were made far more likely by the climate crisis, a scientific analysis has found. Global heating made hot, dry and windy weather at least 20 times more likely in Spain and twice as likely in France, experts from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) consortium calculated. The finding is the latest to pin the blame for the continent’s sweltering and deadly summer firmly on the heating caused by the burning of oil, gas and coal. Continue reading...

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The One Nation leader was asked to condemn violence against women.

Appearing on a podcast with the far-right UK activist who goes by the name Tommy Robinson, Hanson makes evidence-free claims about migrants

Exclusive: Guardian analysis suggests several groups with thousands of members run by what expert calls ‘engagement farm’ operations in south-east Asia

Multiculturalism has always been here. Like it or not, it is part of the way we are

Temperature of 36.1C recorded in Hampshire, while two-thirds of Europe’s population experience temperatures above 30C

Oxfam finds the 20 richest Australians now hold more wealth than the bottom 3 million households

A new arXiv paper formally proves that recursive self-improvement in LLMs is mathematically impossible - the mechanism everyone believed would lead to superintelligence is actually a one-way ticket to...

US tech giant Meta has condemned Labor's plan to tax large digital platforms that fail to pay for using Australian journalism as "government-mandated transfer of wealth".

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

As the QuitGPT movement gains momentum, should people concerned about the environmental impacts of AI consider opting out?

Scientists are calling on the Australian government to push back on a plan to scrap hundreds of jobs at the nation's science agency, as they await the release of further details this week.

A long campaign to improve Australia’s sclerotic research bureaucracy has culminated in an extraordinary blowout to grant approval times, leaving scientists despondent.

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Some users on social media found the model making basic errors. The chatbot repeatedly claimed there were three Bs in ‘blueberry’

xAI’s lengthy apology for antisemitic remarks says they ‘apologize for the horrific behavior many experienced’ Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has issued an apology after its chatbot Grok made a slew of antisemitic and Adolf Hitler-praising comments earlier this week on X. On Saturday, xAI released a lengthy apology in which it said: “First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced.” Continue reading...

Peer support can increase students’ engagement in a course, but one study found that peer instruction didn’t result in better grades or content knowledge for learners.

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A digital poster competition that encouraged comments on social media can spark conversations between under- and postgraduate students. Here’s how it works

There’s a lot that AI can’t do, but hype and misinformation are driving prospective students away from Computer Science.