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Songs created by AI banned from Australia’s music charts
Australia’s music industry body ARIA has confirmed new rules banning songs that are largely or wholly created by AI from the country’s music charts, requiring all eligible releases to be “substantially human made” from this week. The change follows controversy over Australian DJ Josh Fawaz’s AI-assisted cover of Madonna’s “Like A Prayer”, which topped the…
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The ear witness: Turner-winner Lawrence Abu Hamdan and his ‘sound evidence’ exposés of human rights abuses
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, the Lebanese-British artist who jointly won the Turner prize in 2019, leads a dual career as founder and director of Earshot, a human rights NGO he set up in 2023 that investigates abuses using sound evidence. The organisation examines cases ranging from Israeli soldiers’ shootings of emergency workers in Gaza to the…
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Major Aussie builder collapses with more than $3billion debt: Bathla Group goes into voluntary administration
Sydney-based property developer Bathla Group has collapsed into voluntary administration, owing more than $3 billion, in one of Australia’s largest recent builder failures. Administrators from Teneo were appointed on Tuesday to assess the company’s finances and try to keep construction and property settlements running, a move that threatens jobs, ongoing projects and buyers who had…
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Aussie’s infuriating battle to get his life-savings back after pothole damaged his car and repairs drained his bank account
A 21-year-old university student in Victoria, Australia, has been refused compensation from the state transport authority after a pothole wrecked his car’s wheels, despite spending nearly all his savings on repairs. Zane Stanton’s claim was rejected because the road had been inspected twice in the 11 days before the incident, meeting Transport for Victoria’s fortnightly…
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NBC News anchor announces sudden departure on air after covering Washington DC for 10 years
NBC Washington reporter Joseph Olmo announced live on air that he was leaving the station, surprising viewers during Sunday’s evening newscast after a career spanning nearly a decade in local broadcasting. The unexpected on-air resignation drew an emotional response from his audience, many of whom had followed his reporting across the Washington DC area for…
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Rescue pilot pleads guilty, museum heists turn violent, US clean energy set for record growth
TalkFuse’s briefing covers a South Sudanese teenager admitting endangering lives at sea after piloting a Channel super-dinghy, warnings over increasingly violent European museum robberies, Italy’s new phone-crossing fines, US clean energy’s record growth, OpenAI’s push into autonomous agents, and a teenager’s decisi…
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Breakthrough in ‘mysterious’ death of a woman found wounded at a waterfront unit as former partner is charged with murder
A man has been charged with murder eight months after a woman died in unexplained circumstances at a waterfront unit in Port Macquarie, on the New South Wales mid-north coast. Megan Tangye, 31, was found with multiple unexplained injuries at the property on Gore Street on 27 December and died in hospital later that day.…
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Inside the asylum centre ‘holiday camp’: A gym, football pitch, snack bar – and 17 minibuses to ferry migrants into towns. Leader of Essex County Council was given access to Wethersfield former RAF base… this is what he found
The leader of Essex County Council, Reform UK’s Peter Harris, was given rare access to the Wethersfield Airfield Asylum Accommodation site, a former RAF base in the Essex countryside currently housing 800 male asylum seekers. His account, published as an opinion piece, portrays the facility as well-appointed, featuring a gym, football pitch, sports hall, recreation…