Friday, June 26, 2026

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Many people in their sixties realise on a quiet Sunday that they have been calling themselves a private person for thirty years when the...

For thirty years, calling oneself a private person sounds like a virtue. It sounds like depth, like discretion, like a quiet preference for keeping a small life intact. The honest version is harder: many people who describe themselves this...

A single aspen colony in Utah called Pando covers 106 acres, weighs 6,000 tons, and is genetically one organism connected by a root system...

Crouch down in the understory at Pando and the story is in the soil. Aspen suckers, finger-thin and pale, push up from the root mass and are immediately bitten off at ankle height. Then the next one. Then the...

The first U.S. insider trading case tied to a prediction market isn’t really about a Google engineer’s $1.2M — it’s about what blockchain pseudonymity...

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged Michele Spagnuolo, a 12-year Google software engineer, with insider trading after he allegedly turned confidential internal search data into $1.2 million in profits on the prediction market platform Polymarket. The complaint alleges he...

People who keep the thermostat colder than everyone else prefers often aren’t just running hot — many grew up in houses where the heating...

It is 11.47pm and someone in a quiet kitchen is doing the small nightly thing they always do. A glance at the thermostat. A pause. A finger that hovers, considers, and then drops the temperature one degree before bed....

The world’s most advanced chips, from iPhones to AI supercomputers, depend on machines so complex that only one company has ever mastered them: ASML,...

The world’s most advanced chips, from the processor in an iPhone to the accelerators inside AI supercomputers, depend on machines so complex that only one company has ever mastered them. That company is ASML, in the Dutch town of...

Everyone saw the AI backlash coming — fewer expected it to start with the generation raised on screens

In May, the former chief executive of Google stood at a podium at the University of Arizona, looked out at the class of 2026, and told them artificial intelligence was about to remake the world the way the computer...

Report: AI could drive up Australian power prices by 26% by 2035

The artificial intelligence hubs could also use as much electricity as all homes in the state of Victoria by 2030.  The Climate Council issued the warnings on Wednesday in a report into the growing tech industry that has established 162...

‘Disregard for the risk to human life’: a US state is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI safety

The lawsuit, filed in Florida state court on Monday local time by Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier, is one of the most significant enforcement actions brought by a state attorney against an AI company to date. It comes as OpenAI...

Remarkable, Catalysr and Indigenous pre-accelerators score NSW government support for diverse founders

Also chosen were First Nations Economics, a charity that will support up to 60 Indigenous women with mentoring, business capability development, and networks, as well as Dean Foley’s Barayamal, which will deliver a pre-accelerator supporting up to 80 Aboriginal...

A VC pleads: ‘Founders, please stop using AI to write pitches’

That was the subject line of a recent email with a clear ask that actually caught my attention. And as an investor who receives dozens of startup pitches and even more follow-ups each week that’s saying something. It wasn’t...
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Apple just jacked up Macbook prices by 20% – so here’s where you can still find a bargain

The SKUs hardest hit by the almost-20% rise across Apple’s Mac and iPad ranges, with the tech giant saying...
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