Technology
Police allege a teenager had AI plan a mass shooting for him. It wouldn't be the first time.
Court documents describe a 13-year-old prompting a chatbot for first-person massacre content as lawsuits mount against AI firms overseas
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Politics
Federal Labor members push for AI-labelling law on music and art
Federal Labor's membership wants the party to commit to labelling AI-generated music and art as artists warn over a flood of machine-made work.
National
Telstra took two and a half hours to tell the minister, as outage sparks Triple Zero test-call row
Telstra detected the fault at 4.30am but did not alert the minister's office until 7am as a Liberal senator's test calls to 000 drew fire.
National
How many pharmacies actually stocked nicotine vapes? Almost none
The federal government still defends the pharmacy vape scheme it built while the states clean up the black market it fed.
National
Nationwide Telstra outage cuts mobiles, grounds V/Line and hits Triple Zero
A Telstra node failure grounded V/Line and knocked out mobiles nationwide as some callers reported they could not reach Triple Zero.
Technology
We made the world's most powerful AI model draw Melbourne — the results were, unexpected.
We benchmarked Claude Fable Max against ChatGPT and Gemini on three drawing prompts before the model went offline.
National
Psychedelic therapy in Australia used to be limited to the wealthy — that just changed
A $20,000-plus rule kept psychedelic therapy out of reach for everyday Australians — the TGA just scrapped it.
Sport
Relax, the keeper swap was normal. The rest of Popovic's shootout wasn't
Australia crashed out to Egypt on penalties. The keeper substitution made sense — sending two defenders up including the youngest player we've ever fielded didn't.
How vanity built Australia's newest underworld economy
A vanity trend mutated into a multi-million dollar underworld economy — running on the same supply chain as Australia's drug syndicates.
Melbourne
The Victorian Liberals have finally figured out the internet — and Canberra is taking note
From Jess Wilson's mock-Commonwealth Games stunt to Angus Taylor leaning into the meme that haunted him, the party that lost the youth vote is learning to speak its language.
Sport
Socceroos v Egypt: Everything you need to know as Salah races the clock
Australia face the Pharaohs in Dallas for a place in the last 16 — and Mohamed Salah is racing the clock to be fit.
Your frozen berries and your weekend bag probably travelled the same route to get here
The AFP found 110 kilograms of cocaine in a frozen berry shipment at Port Botany last week — the latest in more than a tonne of drugs seized from the same cold-chain containers that stock Australian supermarket freezers.