A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

Wildfire survivors call fire-prediction markets “morally reprehensible” and worry they could increase the risk of arson.

Without disclosing that work has been generated using the technology, faith in existing industries will continue to be undermined

As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move, says author Wendy Liu

Jimmy Wales remembers a toxic internet even before social media and says AI is ‘not a disaster’ for the free – and freely edited - online encyclopaedia

The former presenter says she took strength from other women’s achievements as she researched her new book during federal court case * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Most people facing a gruelling federal court trial, hostile press and the glare of the public spotlight would hesitate to add more challenges to their load. But for journalist Antoinette Lattouf, the public drama she was starring in and the “molasses of multiple legal battles” she faced was a good time to become “match fit” by taking on tough physical challenges and start writing a book. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

The world’s economy is completely dependent on petrochemicals. Is there any way to avoid them?

Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

Australia is well behind other countries in embracing clean cars – it’s past time we kicked into gear on going electric

The Bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?

Guardian Australia tours problematic Malabar wastewater plant where some accumulated fats, oils and grease can’t be accessed – let alone cleared * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast “This,” says Fiona Copeman, the hub manager of the Malabar wastewater treatment plant, “is what you would call our four-bus area.” Copeland is gesturing to a model of the plant on a table inside the facility itself. She’s referring to a 300 cubic metre underground chamber that houses, as Guardian Australia revealed in January, a “fatberg the size of four buses that likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches”. Continue reading...

AI systems now structure public authority; human-in-the-loop oversight is insufficient, requiring upstream guardrails argues Michael A. Santoro.

Exclusive: Tasmanian Lee Hanson employed as senior adviser to Sean Bell in role worth as much as $180,000

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

The list they're creating says so, anyway

Mehdi Mahmoudian detained after signing statement condemning Iran’s supreme leader for recent bloodshed A co-writer of Oscar-nominated film It Was Just an Accident has been arrested in Teheran just weeks before the Academy Awards, after signing a statement that condemned Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, for the recent bloodshed in the country. Human rights campaigner Mehdi Mahmoudian was detained on Saturday after putting his signature to a statement that said “the primary responsibility for these atrocities lies with Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, and the repressive structure of the regime”. Continue reading...

A 13-year-old boy has been hailed a hero after swimming four hours through rough seas to get help for his mother and two siblings, who were swept out to sea on an inflatable paddleboard in WA's South ...