AI/Machine Learning

How scammers use crypto and fake fundraisers to profit from the Bondi terrorism tragedy

- December 23, 2025 2 MIN READ

Grifters and scammers are trying to cash in on the Bondi Beach terrorist attack by launching speculative cryptocurrencies and fake fundraisers, even celebrating when the value of a coin using the likeness of the 10-year-old victim of the mass shooting spiked after launching. As is typically the case around any major news event, opportunistic people… Read more »

Leadership

An AI founder and great-grandfather, on tech’s role in monetising antisemitism and why history shows silence is never an option

- December 21, 2025 10 MIN READ

By age 12, your political operating system is encoded. Everything after is confirmation bias with better vocabulary. This is not cynicism. This is archaeology. Dig into any 50-year-old’s beliefs and you will find layers deposited at the kitchen table, in the schoolyard, at church or synagogue or mosque, in the neighborhood where they learned who… Read more »

Diversity

‘The darkness cannot extinguish the light’: NSW Premier Chris Minns on healing and the way forward for all after Bondi

- December 21, 2025 4 MIN READ

Bondi is beautiful tonight. And not because of its beaches, its sunset, its people, its fun. It’s beautiful because you in your thousands, in your defiance, in your resistance and resolve, you have returned to these sands just seven days after a shocking crime, and have said to the terrorists, we are going nowhere. This… Read more »

Data

How misinterpreting Google Trends data led to Bondi conspiracy theories – an expert explains

- December 19, 2025 4 MIN READ

In the wake of Sunday’s tragic Bondi shooting, conspiracy theories and deliberate misinformation have spread on social media. Many social media posts suggested the name Naveed Akram was searched before the Bondi attacks. Facebook One thing some people have latched onto is the idea Google Trends data show a spike in searches for “Naveed Akram”… Read more »

People

‘What do we say? And more importantly what do we do?’ – Australia’s tech sector reacts to the Bondi terrorism attack

- December 15, 2025 9 MIN READ

Australians and the world have been left horrified and reeling after at least 16 people were killed, with another 40 injured following a mass shooting involving two gunmen at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday evening. NSW police declared the incident a terrorist attack, which began at about 6.40pm on December 14. Alongside a typically busy… Read more »