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With all the compounding economical catastrophes being forecasted atm, it's easy to forget we have a potentially significant price-hike for power bills on the horizon.
The cause? A major spike in data centre investment in Australia.
More info at IA 👇
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I might need to fact-check that 🐈⬛
Neither of them is a cat, we promise.
Story by @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social:
Just hours after the Bondi shooting, we saw a near-instant generation of closed loop of AI misinformation:
It appears that AI was used to generate a lie, which was then absorbed by AI, then regurgitated to others in a breaking news situation.
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Grok, the flagship AI chatbot of Elon Musk’s xAI, has promoted blatantly false information about Sunday’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach.
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Browsing Shutterstock this morning and someone has already made weird AI images of a fake Bondi Beach memorial.
The company says it "does not review AI-generated content for compliance with Shutterstock’s content compliance standards", but AI must not be used to generate false or harmful imagery. 🤷♂️
Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.
BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
Scoop: the pro-teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months was funded & co-staffed by its co-founder's ad production firm that was simultaneously making gambling ads
The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
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I got one on X, but clicking the notification asked me to DL the app, then nothing happened.
Not sure what screams under-16 about a 30-year-old tech journo but I'll take it as flattery I guess.
As Australia rolls out its unprecedented youth social media ban for under-16s, many non-complying teenagers are about to discover the hard way that virtual private networks (VPNs) won’t be enough to trick the system.
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interesting choice to project "LET THEM BE KIDS" onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge as part of the celebrations of the teen social media ban
It's not a line that came from Albanese or the government — it's the name of News Corp's campaign for the ban.
Australians are being warned about a new scam in which criminals pose as federal police officers and pressure victims into handing over their cryptocurrency.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says the scheme is spreading fast – and it’s catching people off guard.
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🚨 NEW: A majority of Australians say they have little to no interest in today's Melbourne Cup, according to polling from Essential
39% of people say the race normalises animal cruelty, including 63% of Greens voters
New: Optus executives say staff failed to escalate information regarding the severity of a 14-hour Triple Zero outage in September caused by an incorrect firewall upgrade, which was linked to more than 450 failed calls and three deaths.
More from today's heated Senate committee hearing 👇
Uh, who’s gonna tell them? “We felt the injunction was an important course of action to further protect our customers and so far, it has been effective in preventing the stolen data being accessed, released or published by third parties”
Cybersecurity experts are warning that injunctions – an increasingly popular legal tactic flaunted as protecting data breach victims – are putting people at greater risk of cybercrime.
More from @troyhunt.com, Cythera's Euan Prentice, Dvuln's Jamieson O'Reilly and Cyber Cognition's Michael Collins.
Insightful article as always from you @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social I agree with the cohort the injunction impedes the ‘goodguys’ and the criminals wont heed it
Spoke to some local experts about the rising trend in data breach injunctions. Was surprising to see how unified people's opinions were on this:
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Parenting the parents is exhausting, but rewarding 😅 Hope she's okay!
Cybercriminals have published 153GB of alleged Qantas customer data after the airline refused to co-operate with ransom demands.
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Apparenty # Deloitte will partially refund the Australian government after acknowledging that # GenAI was used in a report containing fabricated references and quotes.
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Carla says go read No Purchase Vol II ✨ (and my short story about human expression and AI within)
journalist mindset
Oh, neat : )
The founder of global hacking website BreachForums will serve three years in prison after judges challenged an initial sentence of just 17 days ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
#BREAKING 🚨 Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to a report by a United Nations Commision of Inquiry
The report has found Israeli authorities have "intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible" and committed the crime against humanity of extermination
