Murray-Darling basin Paddling blind: why we urgently need a water audittheconversation.com - Quentin Grafton and John Williams In the wake of a damning royal commission and an ABC Four Corners investigation, the federal government has created an Inspector General for the …
Algorithms Do We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Data Science?realclearscience.com - Joshua Ross I swear by Hypatia, by Lovelace, by Turing, by Fisher (and/or Bayes), and by all the statisticians and data scientists, making them my witnesses, …
United States CodebookAxios Welcome to Codebook: The cybersecurity newsletter that doesn't lie to you. The international industry of disinformation-for-hire services has already …
Advertising Industry Advertising casualties of the pivot to privacyDigiday - Jessica Davies It’s open season on advertising techniques that rely too heavily on personal user data. Tighter data protection regulations and the privacy agendas of …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoApps Questions to ask yourself before downloading your next health app - ABC Lifeabc.net.au Check your symptoms. Track your diet. Sleep better. Worry less. Get fit for the beach. With app stores overwhelmed by products promising a better, …
Rwanda Refugees living in fear as alleged foreign spy network infiltrates Australian suburbsabc.net.au - Amy Greenbank Unearthing an alleged shadowy network of spies and their efforts to silence dissent. There was little fanfare when Rwanda's Foreign Minister touched …
Facebook Facebook's Move Against The Epoch Times Underscores Hate Speech ChallengeForbes - Jonathan BerrFacebook announced week that it would block the conservative news site The Epoch Times from advertising on its website. Too bad that it took a media report to get the social network to take action. NBC
Machine Learning Understanding Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Glossary of Terms and Definitions | Analytics Insightanalyticsinsight.net It’s not a matter of surprise that the world is moving ahead with fast pace due to marvels of artificial intelligence. The technology has added new …
Banksy Banksy's famous Brexit mural mysteriously disappears from the side of a Dover buildingCNN - Alaa Elassar, CNN(CNN) — Banksy's mural of a workman chiseling away at a star in the European Union flag mysteriously disappeared from the side of a building in Dover, England, over the weekend. The mural, which adorned
trump news update Trump’s Paradigm of the PersonalThe New York TimesAnd in his view, he is not the executive of the company. He is the embodiment of the country. He runs the country the way he ran his business, as the curating and promotion of his personal brand. The who
Play buttonArt From bombs to Benidorm: how fascism disfigured the face of SpainThe Guardian - Jonathan MeadesThe Basilica at Arantzazu in the Basque country was a collaboration between the sculptor Jorge Oteiza, who had just returned to Spain after 15 years in self-imposed exile, and the architect Francisco Sáenz
Business (Australia) Lunch with bankers. Even they're unimpressed with their new Banking Code of Conducttheconversation.com - Grahame Dowling One of my banks invited me to a customer lunch a few weeks back so that it could announce its commitment to the new Banking Code of Conduct. Here was …
Wealth Forget the generation gap – the gulf between rich and poor tells the real story of our timesThe Guardian - John QuigginRecently, we’ve been hearing a gloomy story. Younger generations of Australians (millennials and Gen Z) are doing worse than their boomer parents, according to Generation Gap, a study of wealth distribution
Scott Morrison Morrison pushes for esafety transparency from tech companies at G7 Australia News - Josh TaylorTwitter claims it is banning most terrorist-related accounts before they even tweet, as the prime minister, Scott Morrison, pushes for the tech companies to be more transparent around what they’re doing
Australian News Australia's 'broken' visa system being used for human trafficking, experts say Australia News - Sarah Martin Chief political correspondentCriminal syndicates are using Australia’s “broken” visa system for human trafficking that is leading to the exploitation of foreign workers who are being paid as little as $4 an hour, an immigration roundtable
Amazon Why Everything They Say About The Amazon, Including That It's The "Lungs Of The World," Is WrongForbes - Michael ShellenbergerThe dramatic photos shared by celebrities of the fires in Brazil weren’t what they appeared to be The increase in fires burning in Brazil set off a storm of international outrage last week. Celebrities,
Hyperledger Ethereum Poised to Be First Public Blockchain in Hyperledger Consortiumcoindesk.com - Nathan DiCamillo Ethereum could become the first public blockchain on Hyperledger – if the open-source consortium’s technical steering committee approves a proposal …
China Want a U.S. Recession? Try Trump’s China Divestment PlanBloomberg - David Fickling Is President Donald Trump serious about forcing American companies out of China? His advisers talk like it. The president would have the authority for …
Australian Labor Party Former NSW Labor boss seen with $100,000 cash in Aldi bag after meeting banned donor, Icac inquiry told Australia News - Christopher KnausFormer New South Wales Labor boss Jamie Clements was seen with an Aldi bag filled with $100,000 in cash after meeting Chinese billionaire and banned donor, Huang Xiangmo, the state’s anti-corruption body
World News 'There's no one to help': Russian mercenary industry's toll on familiesThe Guardian - Andrew Roth in KrasnodarWhen Olga Markelova’s ex-husband Dmitri was killed fighting in Syria in 2017, she expected the Russian government to help provide at least for their daughter, his only child. After all, Dmitri had served
United States Shares skid as trade war deepens, fuels bond rushReuters - By Wayne ColeSYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares sank on Monday as the latest salvos in the Sino-U.S. trade war shook confidence in the world economy and sent investors steaming to the safe harbor of sovereign bonds and
AT&T AT&T and FTC settle lawsuit over data throttlingEngadget - Jon FingasAT&T has reached a truce in an FTC lawsuit accusing it of deceptive data throttling practices. A newly published federal court ruling has revealed that the two parties reached a settlement on August 2nd,
Technology (Australia) Canberra to establish content blocking regime for crisis eventsZDNet - Chris Duckett The Australian eSafety Commissioner is set to gain the power to force the nation's telcos to block certain content during crisis events. In a …
Business US companies tell Apple and Amazon to put planet before profitsThe Guardian - Zoe WoodThe bosses of some of the world’s biggest companies, including Apple and Amazon, have been told to put the planet before profits – not by environmental campaigners but by other multinationals, including
Technology Your nifty Internet of Things gadgets are still vulnerable to hacks. Here's how to secure them.Mashable - BitdefenderWhile most of our beloved smart products have been designed to streamline our responsibilities and make life easier, they’re still vulnerable to the odd security breach from time to time. From old passwords
Investing Stakes Were Higher in 2008 but It's ‘Way Weirder’ Trading TrumpBloomberg - Sarah Ponczek Donald Trump’s trying to win a trade war, so don’t talk to him about 600 points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But for traders coping with the …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSouth Australia Aussies worried about Bight oil plan: polldailytelegraph.com.au - Tracey Ferrier Voters have deep concerns about the impact of oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight, which supports some of Australia's most valuable fisheries …
Manufacturing Three ways to fix the problems caused by rezoning inner-city industrial land for mixed-use apartmentstheconversation.com - Carl Grodach and Chris Gibson and Justin O'Connor Since 2000, planning authorities in Australia have overseen a massive rezoning of inner-city industrial land to make way for mixed-use residential …
Technology Consumer DNA testing has hit a lull — here's how it could capture the next wave of usersCNBC - Christina Farr Sales of consumer-focused DNA tests from companies like Ancestry and 23andMe are down this year. And while companies in the space aren't offering any …
Cherokee Nation Cherokee Nation wants a representative in Congress, taking US gov. up on promise it made nearly 200 years agopix11.com - CNN Wire The Cherokee Nation announced Thursday that it intends to appoint a delegate to the US House of Representatives, asserting for the first time a right …
