another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

Google’s Antigravity AI deleted a developer’s drive and then apologized www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Today we launched a multimedia investigation based on two years of reporting by our tenacious Queensland correspondent Ben Smee. www.theguardian.com/society/vide...

Hannah Thomas required surgery after police allegedly struck her at a pro-Palestine protest. She was charged with three offences. She's "sickened" to see the force approve a neo-Nazi rally on the steps of parliament, arguing it exposes "a clear double standard". www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

From The Descendants to Gina: Guardian Australia’s nominations for the 70th annual Walkley awards

Peter Thiel turning out to be this stupid honestly messes with my idea of him as the eminence grise behind the Gawker lawsuit, maybe Hogan pitched him on it and kept having to explain like “a lawsuit is like when they blew up the Death Star brother”

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Hooray, huzzah, happy days - it’s @australia.theguardian.com Bird of the Year poll time. Nominations open, voting following soon. As always I am on #teamganggang - nominate your favourite Australian bird now.

Nine demands Bob Katter apologise for ‘aggressive behaviour’ towards reporter and ‘unacceptable’ threats

Journalists everywhere need to stand in solidarity on this killing spree and resulting news blackout. See below in this thread for some actions and stay tuned here https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-hits-gaza-hospital-killing-least-20-people-including-five-journalists-2025-08-25/

"Vallata said he’s heard of incidents in which hikers use artificial intelligence to help them discover a route, only to discover that the trail is not safe. “Since about one year ago, many people have begun to think everything on ChatGPT is correct"

We are currently looking for an Indigenous affairs reporter and a Melbourne-based associate news editor – come and join the best team in media! workforus.theguardian.com/search-jobs-...

This incredible essay by Shari Daya is well worth a read open.substack.com/pub/karinsch...

Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Targeting journalists is a war crime. As colleagues, we remember them. meaa.io/45A4vZ5

This is weird because, like, almost all of the actual quoted posts do feel like people who desperately need to be pulled away from 4o

Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence' just sounds like supersurveillance. Again. "Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."

The pro-Palestine March over the Sydney Harbour bridge is currently stopped just short of the exit on the north side of the bridge

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

“At present, the WhoFi system is a proof of concept requiring some incredibly advanced software to implement. But it’s very real, and the hardware used to develop it wasn’t anything special.”

Me, a rube: governments procure a technology when a specific need is identified. UK: “lol, no”

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

A notable statement coming from a former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

she did the meme

Get your applications in! Or share it with someone you know. This assistant audience editor position at @australia.theguardian.com closes on Friday 👇

Unprecedented murder

#UPDATE The head of the World Health Organization said Monday that two million people were starving in the Gaza Strip while tonnes of food was being blocked at the border.

Who is Ali France, the Labor candidate who has unseated Peter Dutton in Dickson?

BREAKING NEWS: Labor has won the federal election with Anthony Albanese to be returned as Australian prime minister. Follow live updates

Amazing

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

@australia.theguardian.com political reporter @krishani-dhanji.bsky.social catches you up on the past week in the election campaign — there's just 11 days to go and one more debate after tonight's, but with early voting open as of today, voters will have already begun to switch off:

Ep 4 of Gina is out now! In an in-depth interview, her son John Hancock explains how his relationship with his mother fell apart and discusses a high-stakes legal case that could threaten the foundations of her empire. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

"I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.” Killed just before her wedding with 10 members of her family, including her pregnant sister. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

How are politicians trying to appeal to younger voters? Dan and Matilda are talking it through RIGHT NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka7w...

In the latest episode of 'Last chance', we meet the traditional owners tracking bogong moths. The bogong moth, or deberra in Taungurung language, is a vital food resource for animals across Victoria's Alpine country and its rapid decline has implications across the ecosystem.

Our new series 'Last chance' is worth a watch. Over six days, it will highlight the efforts of six passionate people who are giving everything to protect the endangered species in their backyards. Today we meet Eva: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Ep 2 of Gina is out today! Listen in to hear about the extent to which Gina Rinehart and her father before her have used their wealth to influence politics. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

The first episode of our six-part podcast series about Gina Rinehart is out today! Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧 www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

They listen and they don’t judge