As AI advances minute by minute and governments grapple with new developments they don’t know how to manage, holding big tech accountable becomes even more urgent A digital duty of care is about a lot more than opting out of “the algorithm”. And after the simplistic and at best patchy exercise of the under-16s social media ban, we shouldn’t let the government get away with another populist policy that looks good on the surface but doesn’t get to the core of the problem. A digital duty of care must hold the tech bros accountable for the safety of the spaces that they have created. Continue reading...

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Ghana can only have feared the worst when Luis Suárez’s number came up in the seventh minute. A day on from the 16th anniversary of one of the most infamous episodes in World Cup history, the Colombia forward who shares a name with the man whose handball broke the hearts of Black Stars supporters in the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup returned to haunt them. Not long after coming off the bench, it was the Sporting striker who provided the assist for what turned out to be the winning goal from Jhon Arias to set up a last-16 clash against Switzerland in Vancouver on Tuesday. Even if they couldn’t find another goal that their superiority clearly warranted, Colombia were deserved winners and look more than capable of at least matching their previous best result at the 2014 World Cup when they reached the last eight. Continue reading...

How a conserved embryonic organiser-the Sonic hedgehog (Shh)-expressing Zone of Polarising Activity (ZPA)-generates diverse limb architectures in amniotes remains a central problem in evolutionary and...

Here the authors generate a new genome and the first embryonic methylomes of an Australian marsupial to show that the embryo retains high DNA methylation while the trophectoderm undergoes erasure...

Assistant minister agrees concerns over resource usage are legitimate but argues Australia cannot ignore ‘consequential’ economic wave * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia should learn from the mistakes of the resources boom and set the terms for the AI and datacentres boom, the assistant minister for the digital economy, Andrew Charlton says. Growth in datacentres has exploded in the past two years, Charlton told the Sydney Institute on Wednesday night, with 44 projects in the pipeline in New South Wales alone seeking 11GW of capacity on the electricity grid. Continue reading...

New PM Péter Magyar calls policy a sign of ‘social justice’ after years of political loyalty being rewarded with economic opportunity

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Auction success hit a new low for the year on the last Saturday in May, with just 54.5% of homes sold The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has suggested falling auction clearance rates may be a “good thing” for first home buyers if it means they aren’t competing against as many property investors. After data was released showing home prices in Australia’s capital cities had begun to fall and buyers were abandoning auctions, Chalmers on Monday said Labor’s proposed property tax reforms weren’t the only thing slowing the housing market. Continue reading...

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