December 5, 2023
Melanie Dinjaski is an experienced sports journalist at the Canberra Times with a genuine love of all sports. She’s covered every code from NRL to NFL, and has experience in print, digital, podcasting, TV and video journalism, having spent time working in newsrooms at Nine, Fox Sports and Seven before moving to the capital. Melanie
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Actor Alia Bhatt was the recent public figure to have her deepfake video go viral on social media platforms. Earlier, Rashmika Mandanna and even Prime Minister Narendra Modi were subjected to such videos, pointing towards the rising menace of deepfake videos. So, what is the govt doing to tackle deepfakes? What can you do if
READ MORERugby Australia said Friday it will trial a lowering of the legal tackle height from the shoulder line to below the sternum in a bid to reduce concussions. The new measure will take effect from February for two years at all levels of the game below Super Rugby, following six years of research by World
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a professor at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government and director of the Harvard Growth Lab With the tragic events unleashed by Hamas on October 7, and global focus on the
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A United Nations agency is expected to call on Western countries, including the US, to drastically reduce meat consumption to combat climate change. The UN’s Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced it will publish a road map with global food recommendations during its COP28 climate summit in Dubai, which starts Thursday and lasts two weeks.
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Interpol was founded in 1923 in Vienna as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC). After World War II, the agency was renamed Interpol and adopted a new constitution. ADVERTISEMENT The head of Interpol on Monday called “transnational organised crime” an epidemic so severe that it constitutes a “global security emergency.” Secretary General Jürgen Stock made
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Formula One‘s governing body is trialling artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle track limits breaches at this weekend’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Paris-based FIA said it would be using ‘Computer Vision’ technology that uses shape analysis to work out the number of pixels going past the track edge. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value
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Erin Smith reveals her likes and dislikes from round 5 of the A-League Women’s competition in The Tackle. ROUND 5 LIKES GLORY UNSTOPPABLE Young star Hana Lowry has ensured the team from the west’s unbeaten streak continues with a match-saving goal in what could well be the game of the season. Glory struck first in
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former president of South Africa and chairs the African High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows The question of what to do with global corporate tax abuse, including tax havens, has
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Google has created a free tool for small, user-created online platforms to deal with terrorist content. Called Altitude, the free tool is built by Jigsaw — a unit within Google that tracks extremism, disinformation and censorship — and non-profit group called ‘Tech Against Terrorism‘. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill Courses Offering College Course
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