Articles by defrost
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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)

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Australian teachers are among highest users of AI in classrooms around the world (theconversation.com)

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Leak suggests US Government is fibbing over FEMA security failings (theregister.com)

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'Determination and ingenuity': Australia's oldest man just turned 112 (sbs.com.au)

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ESA inaugurates new deep space antenna in Australia (spacenews.com)

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Bush Mechanics (wikipedia.org)

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[flagged] Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data (senate.gov)

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City Was Forced to Overhaul Its Police Department. Crime Plummeted (nytimes.com)

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Square Kilometre Array so sensitive, datacenter needs two Faraday cages (theregister.com)

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Cyclist captures moment magpie plucks earphone from his ear (abc.net.au)

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'Jekyll and Hyde': How to win over Australia's most polarising bird (sbs.com.au)

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Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions (theregister.com)

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800k tons of mud probably just made electronics more expensive (theregister.com)

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Facebook data reveals real-world harms caused by spread of misinformation (theconversation.com)

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Supreme Court's Project to Coronate Trump Takes a Leap Forward (talkingpointsmemo.com)

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Walpole Mini-Pumped Hydro (2023-2025) Now Operational (westernpower.com.au)

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Beneath 300 km: First natural evidence of nickel-rich alloys deep in mantle (phys.org)

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China Has Paid a High Price for Its Dominance in Rare Earths (nytimes.com)

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Details on how Australia's social media ban will work are finally becoming clear (theconversation.com)

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Green energy entrepreneur calls on UK to subsidise North Sea oil and gas firms (theguardian.com)

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Huntress's 'hilarious' attacker surveillance splits infosec community (theregister.com)

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Waymo Tells Cops: 'Get a Warrant' (techdirt.com)

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The Real Story on AI's Water Use–and How to Tackle It (ieee.org)

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Short-duration space station missions not part of NASA's long-term plans (spacenews.com)

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Mathematical research with GPT-5: a Malliavin-Stein experiment (alphaxiv.org)

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Chinese robotics firm Unitree eyeing $7B IPO valuation (reuters.com)

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Murdochs reach deal in succession battle over media empire (bbc.com)

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Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide than previously thought (phys.org)

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Teen gamer who 'performed miracles' set to become first millennial saint (bbc.com)

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A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer (righto.com)

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Earth observation firms trying to solve latency issue with 'Dynamic Targeting' (spacenews.com)

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Green hydrogen is hitting hurdle after hurdle – can anything get it moving? (abc.net.au)

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Trump to host tech CEOs for first event in newly renovated Rose Garden (reuters.com)

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Digital platforms now ultimate political power, consequences for democracy (theconversation.com)

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AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help (theregister.com)

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FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American' (theregister.com)

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Defying West, China's Xi Gathers 'Axis of Upheaval' at Military Parade (reuters.com)

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Scientists observe 'hidden swirls' affecting flow of sand, rocks and snow (theconversation.com)

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Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math (quantamagazine.org)

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SteamJet water thruster for Artemis II cubesat critical orbit correction (satnews.com)

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The boy who saw some unclaimed land– and founded his own country (theguardian.com)

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Aging Can Spread Through Your Body via a Single Protein, Study Finds (sciencealert.com)