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Sabalenka vs Rybakina: Saturday, January 31Start time: 8.30am GMT / 3.30am ET / 7.30pm AEDTFREE stream: 9Now (AUS)Access your usual streaming services with Surfshark VPN Saturday’s Aryna Sabalenka vs Elena Rybakina live streams in the 2026 Australian Open women’s final see the culmination of the season’s first Slam and two Eastern Europeans ready to duke it out for AU$4.15 million (approx. $2.9 million USD) and the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup.After the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ debacle in December, Sabalenka turned up to Melbourne Park meaning business. The two-time champion has been in intimidating form, swatting aside all-comers in and dropping…

At that time, Anthropic’s framing was entirely mechanical, establishing rules for the model to critique itself against, with no mention of Claude’s well-being, identity, emotions, or potential consciousness. The 2026 constitution is a different beast entirely: 30,000 words that read less like a behavioral checklist and more like a philosophical treatise on the nature of a potentially sentient being. As Simon Willison, an independent AI researcher, noted in a blog post, two of the 15 external contributors who reviewed the document are Catholic clergy: Father Brendan McGuire, a pastor in Los Altos with a Master’s degree in Computer Science, and…

The Sundance documentary Ghost in the Machine boldly declares that the pursuit of artificial intelligence, and Silicon Valley itself, is rooted in eugenics.Director Valerie Veatch makes the case that the rise of techno-fascism from the likes of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel is a feature, not a bug. That may sound hyperbolic, but Ghost in the Machine, which is built around interviews with philosophers, AI researchers, historians and computer scientists, leaves little room for doubt.If you’ve been following the meteoric rise of AI, or Silicon Valley in general, Veatch’s methodical deconstruction of the technology doesn’t really unearth anything new. The…

When it comes to picking the right healthy beverage for your taste and preferences, there are multiple factors to consider. Below, we outline them so you can find the right drink for you. Dietary notes If you follow a specific diet or are looking for specific ingredients, this can help you narrow down the best drink for you. Examples include gluten-free, vegan, nut-free, low-sugar or zero-sugar, and no artificial flavors or sweeteners. You’ll also want to think about what is added to the drink, such as magnesium, different botanicals, adaptogens and electrolytes and which would best suit your lifestyle or health concerns. Amelia…

Australian Open Semi-final 2026: Friday 30 JanuaryDaily start time: 8.30am GMT / 3.30am ET / 7.30pm AEDTFREE stream: 9Now (AUS)Access your usual streaming services with NordVPN (save 70% today) It looked like it was all over for Novak Djokovic as he was two sets down to Lorenzo Musetti and then the unthinkable happened…A walkover. Musetti seemingly out of nowhere walked up to the net and conceded the game to the elder statesman. It’s the second walkover that Djokovic has enjoyed this tournament after Jakub Menšík in the fourth round. Someone up there is looking after the Serb.Regardless, this means the…

Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county courthouse in Iowa will receive $600,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging wrongful arrest and defamation. The case was brought by Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn, two penetration testers who at the time were employed by Colorado-based security firm Coalfire Labs. The men had written authorization from the Iowa Judicial Branch to conduct “red-team” exercises, meaning attempted security breaches that mimic techniques used by criminal hackers or burglars. The objective of such exercises is to test the resilience of existing defenses using…

Drake Maye and the New England Patriots face Sam Darnold and the Seattle Seahawks at Super Bowl LX, which will be held at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA this year. For those of you who don’t have your calendars blocked off already, the game is on February 8, with kickoff scheduled for 6:30 p.m. ET.Like all other Sunday Night Football games this season, the championship game will be broadcast on NBC, and will stream live on Peacock. (Oh, and in case the Super Bowl isn’t enough for you, you can catch coverage of the Winter Olympics all morning and…

The RedMagic 11 Air may have figured out how to fit one of the biggest phone batteries available into a slimmer design. Unveiled Thursday, the new gaming phone has a 7,000-mAh silicon carbon battery and a cooling fan, along with many of the same features as last year’s RedMagic 10S Pro.The new phone has the same depth as the prior RedMagic 10 Air at 7.85mm (0.3 inches), and is a smidge heavier at 207 grams (7.3 ounces) versus the prior phone’s 205 grams. This is a comparable weight and depth to phones like Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro, but the specs list of…

If you’ve been running out of mobile data a lot on your current phone plan but don’t want to shell out more cash on a bigger data plan, then this deal from Tangerine Mobile may be what you’ve been looking for.For a limited time, Tangerine is slashing the price of its SIM-only 5G plans by 50% for the first four months, starting with AU$15 per month for its base 30GB plan. The plan will then revert back to $30 from the fifth month onwards.Moreover, each plan will also get double data for the first six months as well, boosting that…

IP reservation is the process of assigning a specific IP address to a device, such as a computer, so it receives the same address each time it (re)connects to the network, such as when you restart it or the network’s router. This post explains when IP reservation applies and how to set it up on popular router brands. Related stories on home networking Each time you connect a computer (or any device) to a router, it gets an IP address, which might change when reconnecting, such as when the device or the router restarts. IP reservation keeps that IP address…