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Gruffalo Granny illustrator says rise of AI images 'worrying"
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (434+ words) The illustrator for the Gruffalo books has said images created by artificial intelligence (AI) are "worrying". Axel Scheffler said AI pictures are "a breach of copyright" and lose their charm when compared to the hand-drawn originals. He was speaking to…...
The Forgotten Bestseller That Saw The Collapse Of Privacy Coming
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (104+ words) Times Now The Forgotten Novel That Saw The End Of Privacy Coming (Picture Credit - Pinterest) Also Read:The Forgotten Bestseller That Predicted the Internet’s Dark Side One of Eggers's most prescient inventions is SeeChange, a network of tiny cameras that…...
Imagining a Future Where a Spy Could Disappear
4+ day, 9+ min ago (1657+ words) True diligence is following the improbable path. I read the sentence in a detective novel in childhood, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then the phrase stayed with me forever after. For a long time I wrote True Diligence…...
MY STORY | I was a prison warden and now I???m building an AI model for Shoprite
1+ week, 2+ day ago (89+ words) MY STORY | I was a prison warden and now I’m building an AI model for Shoprite news24.com MY STORY | I was a prison warden and now I’m building an AI model for Shoprite - Expresso’s Zoë Brown Anderson settles in Sydney…...
BOOK REVIEW | Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the Future of Modern Warfare
1+ week, 5+ day ago (294+ words) This is a most interesting and useful book that has been somewhat handicapped by the author’s overly blatant polemical distaste for Donald Trump. That aside, though, it is full of interesting information about very modern warfare that is mainly presented…...
'Livelihoods draining away': Illawarra authors and booksellers affected by nationwide hack
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (584+ words) A cyber attack which took down one of the biggest book suppliers in Australia forced one Illawarra bookseller to run down to Big W just to make sure he had stock. Hachette Australia's Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) was taken offline…...
What's Happening With Wattpad?
2+ week, 6+ day ago (397+ words) Fanfiction site Wattpad has banned content "primarily for sexual arousal," in a move users say is like "banning water from the ocean." Danika spends most of their time talking about sapphic books at the Lesbrary. Wattpad, an online platform for…...
From failures to flirtations, Miles Franklin's not-so-brilliant career
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1588+ words) Miles Franklin spent her life reinventing herself and swapping between various pseudonyms. (Supplied: State Library NSW) With the release of Netflix's new TV adaptation of My Brilliant Career last week and the announcement of the winner of this year's Miles…...
Cyberattack sparks chaos for Australian bookshops and authors
3+ week, 3+ day ago (684+ words) August 21, 2026 — 3:04pm When Maxine Beneba Clarke attended book events in Geelong and Bendigo last week, there was one thing missing – the books she was there to discuss. The poet, memoirist and children’s writer, who is a regular on school syllabuses, is…...
The Quantum Dawn: Exclusive excerpt for Derek Künsken’s new Quantum Evolution novel
3+ week, 4+ day ago (272+ words) Read our exclusive sneak peek into Derek Künsken’s upcoming sci-fi novel The Quantum Dawn here… By SciFiNow 20-08-26 5 Back in April, we revealed the intergalactic cover (designed by Justin Adams) for Derek Künsken’s forthcoming sci-fi novel The Quantum Dawn, and now,…...