Guardian Australia reporter Jordyn Beazley filmed this video not long ago of police moving towards protesters down Elizabeth Street in the Sydney CBD following the rally at Town Hall.

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

About thousand people are marching from the protest at Town Hall down George Street in the Sydney CBD with no police escort through traffic, which is not blocked off | 🎥 Blake Sharp-Wiggins

What seems to be happening here in the US in response to the ICE violence a switch from 'will the police protect' to 'we will do without police'.

AI will never replace the institutional knowledge and memories of an absolute legend who was *listening to the police scanner the night of the Watergate break-in.* www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

I realized that a lot of the guys who have been found in the Epstein files are probably really struggling because the guy they would have gone to for advice about being discovered in the Epstein files was JEFFREY EPSTEIN

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader. One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...

Co-writer of Oscar-nominated film It Was Just an Accident arrested in Iran

Incredible story

“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

'The arts have allegedly become “unsafe” and artists are a danger to the community’s psycho-social wellbeing. But, let’s be quite clear, the routine invocation of “safety” is code for “I don’t want to hear your opinion”.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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.