After they made the atomic bomb, scientists came up with the Doomsday Clock. The symbolic clock, launched by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, warned how close humanity might be to destroying itself in the form of “minutes to midnight”. Since 1947, its hands have been moved closer and further away from midnight in response to…
An Australian AI pornography website has been barred from advertising on the world’s largest adult platform and targeted by Australia’s online safety regulator after the ABC revealed it could be breaching laws against child exploitation material. Warning: This story includes references to child abuse material. OurDream, which has been ranked as the biggest AI porn…
When opinion polls shift, previous assumptions can too. Like whether One Nation’s rise is unstoppable. Or whether frustrated voters flocking to the party care about Pauline Hanson’s actual policy positions. The Newspoll and Redbridge surveys this week suggest there is a ceiling for One Nation. A limit, perhaps, to the number of Australians who share…
Welcome to Cheat Sheet, where we give you all the intel you need about iconic franchises! In honour of its fifth instalment heading to cinemas, this month we’re looking at the beloved and long-running prank series Jackass. Perhaps the greatest feat of prank franchise Jackass is that the crew of skateboarders and dropouts parlayed gross-out…
Online fraud and scams rose in 2025, while online abuse and identity crime decreased and cybercrime remained significantly under-reported, a new report has found. The Australian Institute of Criminology Australian Cybercrime Statistical report, released this week, took responses from 10,593 Australians, almost half of whom had been a victim of some form of cybercrime in…
Good morning, and welcome to the ABC’s finance blog — and the new financial year! I’ll be guiding you through the latest market action for the next few hours. And it looks like the local share market will have another quiet start to its day. ASX futures, which are a rough indicator of how the market may open,…
A “hyperscale” data centre campus has been proposed for a remote Northern Territory cattle station, as the industry eyes the region for development. The proposed 19,150-hectare Project Ares would be built by Energy North on Murranji Station in the Barkly Region, and consist of about 90 hectares of “data halls,” powered by a blend of…
Elii Emeghebo was walking past Peter Jackson’s Pitt Street shop in Sydney two years ago, when he did a double take. The Nigerian-Australian model, who had previously modelled for the brand, noticed an image in the shopfront’s window of a man who appeared almost identical to him — except for one important thing. In an…
Your honour, Legally Bonde was an indisputable hit. The 2001 romantic comedy and satire, which had Australian director Robert Luketic at its helm, starred Reese Witherspoon as bubbly sorority girl Elle Woods, who enrols in Harvard Law school in a bid to win back her ex-boyfriend. Its sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde,…
Wall Street’s tech and AI stocks rebounded from last week’s sell-off, driving the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite up by 1.2% and 2.1% respectively. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.6% to a new record high of 52,183 points. This was after Google’s parent company Alphabet was added to the Dow for the first time, which sent its shares 5% higher. Essentially, the tech giant will…