Black Box: The Chatbots | The Line | Ep 5 – podcast
Five stories that feel like five answers to one important question: in a world where AI chatbots can help us through a breakup, listen like a friend, be a life…
The more Putin escalates his attacks on Europe, the more Europe should support Ukraine | Timothy Garton Ash
Moscow’s imperialist strongman believes decadent European democracies can be cowed. Our job is to prove him wrong Vladimir Putin is escalating both his full-scale war against Ukraine and his shadow…
Angry French students take to the streets. British students don’t – and I think I know why | Kitty Sayers
I grew up in France, where all children are taught about the revolutionary roots of their nation and what the state owes its citizens. The lessons leave their mark Young…
When reality TV becomes too real – and why we can’t look away
In today’s newsletter, a reality TV academic – and former Bachelor contestant – speaks with us about the attachments we form with romance reality participants in the wake of a…
Blooming beautiful! The Tesselaar tulip festival – in pictures
The annual month-long festival takes place at a flower farm in the Victorian town of Silvan when tulips and other springs flowers are at their most vibrant Continue reading…
The moment I knew: We were babysitting my younger siblings and he wore a tutu to make them laugh
When Sarah Maloney’s primary school crush danced back into her life, she braced for a ‘teenage whirlwind romance’. Then one night, she realised they were both all in Find more…
Regional universities struggle to enrol international students amid visa refusals and heated political rhetoric
Immigration debate and visa uncertainty are putting students off and increasing pressure on budgets Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast University leaders warn they’re struggling…
Finding Roger Davies: how one sister’s search for her long-lost brother unearthed a state’s destitute burial failures
Exclusive: Chantel Dubsky says she was never told where her brother was buried. His final resting place was found as part of a Guardian investigation Find more from the Unmarked…
Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each exists Humans could become extinct by the year 2100 due to malicious…
Out of the rubble and on to the beach: Gaza’s junior surf lifesavers return to the waves after three years of war
Just 15 of the program’s 45 Nippers have been found since the conflict disrupted it As a group of smiling children in yellow and black rash vests bundled towards the…