Netflix and Paramount deals are both wrong for Warner Bros Discovery – and democracy
A congressional hearing this week underscored the danger a WBD deal would pose to journalism and the American public Donald Trump wants CNN sold. He has said so repeatedly and…
Green whisky? Scottish distillery tests eco-friendly aluminium bottles
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Lamar wants to have children with his girlfriend. The problem? She’s entirely AI
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‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral
The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted Like thousands of women across…
Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating O-1 visa requests: ‘This is the American dream now’
Content creators are leveraging their high follower counts to apply for the visa for ‘individuals with extraordinary ability’ Content creators and influencers in the US are now increasingly dominating requests…
‘The last actual hippie’: musicians pay tribute to Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir
Stars from Bob Dylan to Brandi Carlile remember rock band co-founder as ‘beautiful human’ after his death at 78 The death of Bob Weir, the Grateful Dead co-founder, rhythm guitarist,…
This is how we do it: ‘The dark room is a judgment-free place, where we can live out fantasies together’
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Golden Globes 2026 red carpet: Teyana Taylor, Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez and others – in pictures
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‘A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised
We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being I first voiced my desire to…
Melbourne is in the middle of a housing revolution – have the yimbys already won?
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