Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

Support is growing for a ban on the import of so-called “smart glasses”, amid an influx of low-cost devices that are being used to film Australians without their consent.

A new NBER study finds that as college men grow scarce, college-educated women marry high-earning men without degrees—leaving non-college women with a shrinking, poorer pool of potential husbands

There are calls for an overhaul of Australia’s education funding system after new polling found more than a third of private school parents would have chosen the public system if it had been better fu...

In the world of science, breakthroughs often come from state-of-the-art labs with million-dollar equipment. But sometimes, they begin in a…

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Barney Glover, head of the Australian Tertiary Education Commission, says he will provide advice about degree funding to the government next year

The NDIS Bill is brutal. It cuts support for people with permanent, significant disability - leaves structural problems largely untouched.

Australia’s school system will remain unfair while private schools can combine public funding, fees and selective enrolment practices, and a common framework is needed to give public education a genui...

An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...

A study of more than 2,300 9- to 10-year-olds found that socioeconomic factors explained most differences in the preteens' brain development.

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.

How can it be that a woman goes into a strange house and her body is later found dumped in a fridge and no one is prosecuted for her murder? Her name was Isla Bell. She was 19. This week, she was remembered by her family as a gem, an exquisitely beautiful soul. She walked everywhere with an open heart.

AI has been a core part of Pope Leo’s papacy