Anyone else starting to get that disaster movie feeling when there’s been multiple warnings of what’s to come?
ABC News AustraliaAnthropic says its Claude AI model hacked systems of three external companies during safety tests
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Jarrod Watt
Профиль VivelyAustralian journo in Hong Kong; podcast editor/producer; Aus news correspondent RTHK3; journalism lecturer HKBU; ex SCMP, ABC, PBSFM, RRR; reformed music journo and bartender - https://jarrodwatt.com/
Great reporting on China trends from former Hong Kong journalists: "a growing number of online platforms are paying people anywhere between $15 & $700 to license their likeness for AI-generated content" also: "700 AI-related face-theft cases over the past 3 years" restofworld.org/2026/china-a...
In China, people are renting out their faces to AINew platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity.restofworld.orgBYD to hit the market with humanoid robots... but it's bigger than that. "Chinese carmakers are competing with Tesla in a high-stakes race to dominate physical AI." Elon's suing for the right to make & sell AI deepfake porn via X, what does he want his robots to do? www.scmp.com/business/chi...
Surely if the Red Sea is blockaded, Somali pirates are back in action, US and Saudi forces hitting "eastern Iraq" and a drone strike on "a U.S.-owned gas storage tanker at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta..." We're gonna need a bigger map. www.reuters.com/world/iran-w...
How much longer can the #Trump clown show #Odyssey go on? Early nomination for #cartoon of the week/year for @rowecartoon.bsky.social
rowecartoonhow much longer..?
As Murdoch’s mullahs across multiple platforms launch public character assassinations of Fauci to synchronise with the MAGA show trial… the forgotten/ignored/censored paragraph referencing science and Covid in their missives:
PBS News"Trump's officials went on to tear down a mural with Fauci's face," says Katherine Wu. "Former colleagues have said it seems like essentially everything Tony Fauci touched, they have attempted to dismantle, destroy, or obliterate so that there is no legacy left." https://to.pbs.org/4wuWu3E
The new era of AI voice scams arrives in Hong Kong: “WhatsApp account hijackings, scammers may use AI to fake the voices of people close to you…” Maybe part of the $18 billion allocated for Hong Kong “security” could be spent on protecting citizens from this threat? www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
Hong Kong raises alert on AI voices as HK$26m lost to WhatsApp hijackersPolice say one victim was scammed out of HK$10 million by fraudsters impersonating his father.www.scmp.comThe venality of evil: richest man in world sues government for trying to ban deep-fake pornography and image based abuse.
MPR NewsElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.
All hail the librarians and their ancient powers of serving the community interest: “…the anti-AI movement isn’t about rejecting technology altogether so much as it is about advocating for more control, agency, and freedom in how people use technology…” techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/l...
Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunchAt libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.techcrunch.comStill trying to figure out how a missile attack from a nation being bombed for 6 consecutive months is a “surprise”? Meanwhile reporting is of ‘the relationship” between Netanyahu and Trump… not the poor buggers dealing with the consequences of their insanity www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
US says it intercepted ‘surprise’ Iran missile attack on its forces in Middle East after lull in fightingFighting was paused after nearly two weeks of nightly strikes by the US on Iran, as both sides battled for control of the strait of Hormuzwww.theguardian.comNew, old & unreleased #ausmusic we played on the radio in Hong Kong today: * Lazy Farmer’s Sons - recorded live in Ballarat last Sunday * Spiderbait - Run And the red-hot opening track of the brand new album from * Emma Donovan - Take Me To the River #getitinya bandcamp.com/jaydub/playl...
Thankyou Bill Oddie for changing the lives of so many GenX Aussie kids. You are the secret insidious musical influence for so many of us. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Bill Oddie, naturalist and broadcaster, dies aged 85Coming to fame in The Goodies, Oddie was later known for his wildlife expertise and presented BBC Springwatchwww.theguardian.comHong Kong reporting *precisely* what Corey Doctorow forecast in 2025 as the "reverse centaur" effect of #AI and corporate cutbacks - "Behind the slashed rates and shorter turnaround times is the assumption that AI does the heavy lifting for translators..." 1/2 hongkongfp.com/2026/07/26/s...
AI didn’t take these Hongkongers’ jobs - but it hasn’t made them easierRather than sparking immediate mass unemployment, artificial intelligence is radically transforming Hong Kong workplaces, with workers facing multiplied workloads, shortened deadlines, and pay rates t...hongkongfp.comWham! in China: “I think it counts as a historical event.” I would love to read of a journalist tracking down any of those folks who saw them play in Beijing and Guangzhou in 1985.
The Guardian‘I thought it didn’t stand a cat’s chance in hell’: Andrew Ridgeley on Wham’s surreal trip to China