Articles by defrost
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Why people say they're using 'Are You Dead?' (&others) (npr.org)

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Trump, ICE set to be handed access to Australians' biometric data, ID documents (crikey.com.au)

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Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route (phys.org)

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Zombie (Album, 1976) (wikipedia.org)

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Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award (aljazeera.com)

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'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night (extremetech.com)

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The Last Nuclear Deal Is Expiring. Does Anyone Care? (nytimes.com)

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China executes online scam ringleaders from Myanmar (abc.net.au)

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Trump administration has rewritten nuclear safety rules (npr.org)

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Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds (theregister.com)

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Social media firms come to ban 'kicking and screaming'- Australia eSafety boss (bbc.com)

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Feral cats and foxes have driven many Australian mammals to extinction (theconversation.com)

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Jensen Huang: Future AI jobs will come with hardhat and boots (theregister.com)

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Hand stencils in Sulawesi cave are oldest-known rock art (nature.com)

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NASA to end support for planetary science groups (spacenews.com)

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Space Force ends 'Resilient GPS' satellite program (spacenews.com)

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What 'Landman' Understands About Oil (nytimes.com)

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pf: Make af-to less magical (undeadly.org)

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Activists in Iran Are Using Starlink to Stay Online (nytimes.com)

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'Cosmic clock' in tiny crystals reveals rise and fall of ancient landscapes (theconversation.com)

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Why do educated people fall for conspiracy theories? It could be narcissism (theconversation.com)

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Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote (theregister.com)

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Roman villa found under popular park dubbed town's 'Pompeii' (bbc.com)

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China-Australia relationship in 2026? This is how experts in China see it (theconversation.com)

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They Call It "Private Equity". It's Legal Theft (founderstowne.com)

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Doctorow: Trump may be the beginning of end of 'enshittification' (theguardian.com)

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NT town of Katherine named Australia's best drop, nine years after PFAS detected (abc.net.au)

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MiniMax, China's second 'AI tiger' to go public, soars in Hong Kong debut (reuters.com)

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What 'I'm an American living in Australia' trend reveals about both countries (abc.net.au)

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GitHub Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won't Explain Why (404media.co)

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We can safely experiment with reflecting sunlight away from Earth (theguardian.com)

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Watching myself say things I would never say. Deepfake menace we must confront (theguardian.com)

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Data centres coming for what's left of Australia's green export superpower dream (crikey.com.au)

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State of the Geomagnetic Field, December 2025 (PDF 19 pages) (noaa.gov)

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A Carbon-Rich Atmosphere on a Windy Pulsar Planet (iop.org)

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AI is rewriting how power flows through the datacenter (theregister.com)

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Flock Said It Does Not Use Dark Web Data. Code Analysis Tells a Different Story (nexanet.ai)

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Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space (abc.net.au)

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Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits (theregister.com)

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Mistakes marred Australian telco firewall upgrade, contributing to deaths (theregister.com)

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Nearly 500 small businesses seek assistance in dispute with digital platforms (abc.net.au)

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Bondi lie peddled by Grok chatbot shows future of AI-poisoned info ecosystem (crikey.com.au)

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Dominatrix turns tech founder to combat revenge porn (bbc.com)

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'It was like a dream': How Australia's rarest bird of prey was found (watoday.com.au)

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Live Nation, Ticketmaster must face sprawling class action over prices (reuters.com)

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Fire-making materials at 400K year-old site are oldest evidence of human fire (npr.org)

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Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane (theregister.com)

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Oldest evidence of deliberate fire use found in England (aljazeera.com)

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Where in the world are wealth and income most unequal? (aljazeera.com)

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UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others over fossil fuels (bbc.com)

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Australia's peak mental health groups didn't want the teen social media ban (crikey.com.au)

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Canadian traditional owners fear Australian-style LNG development (abc.net.au)

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Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner (theregister.com)

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Australia wants to be critical minerals superpower- processing is dangerous (theconversation.com)

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Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation (science.org)

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New Device Generates Power by Beaming Heat to Space (ieee.org)

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Ultrablack wool textiles inspired by hierarchical avian structure (nature.com)

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Welcome to Nestflix (nestflix.fun)

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Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator (theregister.com)

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Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one (theregister.com)

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Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling (theregister.com)

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Devastating toxic spill tests whether African countries will stand up to China (bbc.com)

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Giving men a common antidepressant could help tackle domestic violence (theconversation.com)

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The Austrian heiress giving away her fortune (abc.net.au)

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Couple allegedly used hidden camera, earpieces to win $1.18M from Crown casino (theguardian.com)

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100 years on, T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment (theconversation.com)

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Viola Ford Fletcher, survivor of 1921 Tulsa Massacre, dies age 111 (aljazeera.com)

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'Stone-cold killers': New Zealand to eradicate feral cats by 2050 (theguardian.com)

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Deep Fission Plans to Sink Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground (ieee.org)

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Paris court blocks auction of earliest-known calculator (bbc.com)

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Without US satellites, 'we go dark', tells climate monitor (phys.org)

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Ancient kiss-tory: new perspectives on the evolution of early historical kissing (sciencedirect.com)

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Continental Drying: A Threat to Our Common Future (worldbank.org)

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Rio Tinto scraps $215M research centre, BioIron product after decade of R&D (abc.net.au)

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'CEO is my blood type': Chilling new novel nails narcissistic tech culture (theconversation.com)

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Microsoft: We see all the backlash and we know we have a lot to fix in Windows (neowin.net)

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What is fluoride, and why is it added to our tap water? (abc.net.au)

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Claim secret gas decarbonisation report 'doctored' to support net zero narrative (abc.net.au)

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Australia's spy boss: Authoritarian nations can commit 'high-impact sabotage' (theregister.com)

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Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning (gizmodo.com)

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China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months (theguardian.com)

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Australia's Solar Boom Is Breaking the Grid – Or Is It? [video] (youtube.com)

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Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing (marineinsight.com)

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Who's watching the watchers? This Mozilla fellow, and her Surveillance Watch map (theregister.com)

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Who has the best map of orbit? (spacenews.com)

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'Vibe coding' named word of the year by Collins Dictionary (bbc.com)

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Global land carbon sink halved in 2024, AI model suggests (phys.org)

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Record grounded glacier retreat caused by an ice plain calving process (nature.com)

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Some Australian states are set to get a free electricity period every day (abc.net.au)

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Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land (theregister.com)

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Werewolf Game: An Interview with Google's Former News Chief Richard Gingras (codastory.com)

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Spider inspired biologists create webs to capture airborne DNA (theconversation.com)

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Australian police building AI to translate emoji used by 'crimefluencers' (theregister.com)

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SA Museum investigates whether meteorite collided with car on regional highway (abc.net.au)

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Grindr shareholders offer to take dating app private for $3.46B (reuters.com)

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What is Aukus, the submarine deal between Australia, the UK and US? (bbc.com)

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Heavy horsemen keep farming traditions alive (abc.net.au)

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Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off? (theconversation.com)

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Family of ducks crossing Perth's Kwinana Freeway cause six-car peak-hour pile up (abc.net.au)

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WA's Bibbulmun Track running record broken twice in one week (abc.net.au)