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Google’s “AI overviews” and “AI mode” aim to keep searchers on their own page rather than send them to other sites.

Google’s plan to run your life could break the internet

The tech giant’s new AI overhaul is set to have damaging ramifications.

  • James Warrington and James Titcomb

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Geelong-based artist Laura Alice.

The young women building their own computers as a middle finger to big tech

Avid hobbyists are building portable computers, known as “cyberdecks”, and they can do more than you might think.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Jimmy Wales in 2006 with an early iteration of Wikipedia.

‘Too many dinner parties’: Why life in London is too much for this tech entrepreneur

Founded 25 years ago, Wikipedia remains a rare internet presence with 65 million entries thanks to a global collective of geeks.

  • Jane Wheatley
Skibidi: The word originated from the absurdist viral YouTube animation Skibidi Toilet.

Hollywood wants to turn this viral meme into a juggernaut. Fans aren’t happy

Could Skibidi Toilet, the bizarre animated YouTube series that gets more views than the NBA on the site, become the next Transformers?

  • Kishor Napier-Raman
Where we once used online culture to share our lives, it’s clear that we are increasingly withdrawing.

I confess, I’m a lurker: How the utopia of my youth went horribly wrong

When I was compulsively sharing and being shared with, I was expressing the person I wanted to be. Now, I just silently observe the lives of others.

  • Wendy Syfret
One of the main attractions at the Polymarket pop-up bar was a globe displaying the latest odds of live events.

A bar full of young things staring at TV screens. But they’re not watching football

It’s the pop-up everyone in the US capital is talking about. Prediction markets are all the rage in America – just don’t ask them if they’re promoting gambling.

  • Michael Koziol
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Have we all traded our anonymity for convenience?

Paranoia about being watched much of the time no longer feels like the ramblings of just tin-hatted conspiracy theorists.

  • Brodie Lancaster
Evidence of the spell invoking clear weather for my Story Bridge climb.

I paid an Etsy witch to cast a spell – and it worked (I think)

With spells advertised for less than $5, I couldn’t resist, and was duly rewarded when a “weather ritual” paid off.

  • Neesha Sinnya
Nothing like the photogenic “girl dinner”, one of the key ingredients in most “boy kibble” is beef mince.

The male equivalent of “girl dinner” is here. And it looks like a dog’s breakfast

Boy kibble is meal-prep redressed for a new generation, with the underlying message: eat like dogs, look like gods.

  • James Colley
Studying the language of love in 2026 is a bit like learning the words to Bad Bunny songs, only not nearly as fun.

Heteroflexible, fertility vampires and affair baiting: The terms defining dating now

In honour of Valentine’s Day, let us help you decode the chaotic ways we’re describing modern courtship.

  • Courtney Thompson