Around half of the people living with long COVID meet the criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome, according to the report. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 1 year ago

4M health records and PHI hacked in Australia

Medibank Private has confirmed this morning that the hackers accessed the data of all four million of its customers as well as significant amounts of health data. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

‘Immense harm’: Medibank confirms hackers have stolen customer data

The health insurer has confirmed that customer data has been accessed as a result of last week’s cyber incident with the hacking group providing policy details of Medibank customers.  | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Medibank hackers threaten to release stolen health data in ransom demand

The hackers claim they will email Medibank’s most prominent 1000 customers and say they have information on health diagnoses. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

The daring Australian scientists who changed the course of our world

Wizards of Oz is a tense and gripping account of two friends who went on to transform warfare, industry and medicine. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Workers strike at Apple’s core in unprecedented industrial action

Apple staff protested at Apple stores in Brisbane and Newcastle on Tuesday, in the first nationally coordinated industrial action by retail workers in Australian history. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

SunDrive: Startup replacing silver with copper in solar panel

Mike Cannon-Brookes and Malcolm Turnbull are among the high-profile investors in SunDrive, a Sydney-based startup promising cheaper and more efficient rooftop solar. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Josh Toole, brother of NSW deputy premier, arrested in drug cabal bust

Joshua Toole was arrested for his alleged role in a drug supply syndicate operating across the Central Coast and Hunter regions. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

The science behind fat bears that holds important lessons for human health

Despite hibernating for five months each year, bears emerge lean, strong and barely affected by their months of starvation and inactivity. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Tribesmen ‘sentenced to death’ for resisting futuristic Saudi megacity

Neom is a pet project of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and has been promoted as a tourism destination for Westerners. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

AUS Attorney-General Claims Ability to Intercept Signal / WhatsApp Messages

The government’s national anti-corruption commission will be able to intercept messages sent on encrypted apps like WhatsApp and Signal, Mark Dreyfus has confirmed. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

International scientific study says your barista is making your coffee all wrong

A team of international scientists working with a Melbourne barista claim to have designed a scientifically perfect cup of coffee. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

The US Sabotaged a USSR Natural Gas Pipeline in 1982 (2004)

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@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

‘A stuff-up by Optus’: Government wants telco to pay to replace passports

Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones said he had received a briefing from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Wednesday advising him that passports were “safe to use” for now. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Australia promises strong powers for new anti-corruption drive

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the watchdog will be given the power to investigate anyone who tries to induce public officials to engage in dishonest conduct. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

NASA’s mission successfully strikes an asteroid

NASA’s asteroid-hunting spacecraft has successfully smacked head-on into an asteroid. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Europe must end energy dependence on Russia: ex-IEA chief (2008)

The European Union should free itself from its dependence on Russian gas by developing renewable and nuclear energy, the former head of the International Energy Agency told EU ministers Saturday. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Lachlan Murdoch sends legal threat to Crikey over January 6 article

Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size Lachlan Murdoch has threatened online news website Crikey with legal action over an article that suggested he and his media mogul father Rupert Murdoch were responsible for the riots at the US Capitol in January.(smh.com.au) | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Musk sells $9.9B Tesla shares to avoid Twitter fire sale

It’s the billionaire’s biggest Tesla share sale on record, aimed at cashing him up in the event he is forced to go ahead with his aborted deal to buy Twitter. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Sydney high school bans phones with dramatic results

Mobile phones go into a pouch that gets locked at the school gates at Davidson High School and related behavioural issues have dropped 90 per cent. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

‘Never seen anything like it’: The volcano blast that altered the atmosphere

When an underwater volcano erupted off Tonga this year, it blasted enough water vapour into the atmosphere to impact the ozone layer and influence surface temperatures. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

The worst butt-dial in history

A crime syndicate’s plan to bring almost a tonne of drugs to Australia ground to a halt when their boat, and the one sent to rescue it, ran aground and attracted the attention of confused local fisherman. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Guerilla Gardening: On the Verge of a Revolution

This man's mission is to revegetate any scrap of unloved publicground, and he's deadly serious, writes Nick Galvin. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Shopify culls Australian staff in late night email

Canadian-headquartered e-commerce giant has axed 1000 staff globally, leaving Australian employees to wake up to an email telling them they would be unemployed. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Dumb luck? No way. The billion-dollar smarts of the 'For Dummies' empire

Nearly 30 years ago, a how-to guide called DOS For Dummies was published. The reaction to the user-friendly and accessible book led to a global phenomenon. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Mystery rocket crashed into the moon – and no one (on Earth) is owning up

Some are speculating China could be behind the rocket but scientists aren’t sure. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Who gets fired over social media posts? We studied hundreds of cases to find out

What you say and do on social media can affect your employment; it can prevent you from getting hired, stall career progression and may even get you fired. Is this fair – or an invasion of privacy? | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

New South Wales Government to ban use and posession of encrypted devices

A snap cabinet meeting late on Wednesday evening agreed to the new measures, designed to cripple the finances of crime networks. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Australian government lobbying behind the scenes for Assange's freedom

With Julian Assange facing extradition, the federal government is lobbying US counterparts to head off his extradition and secure his freedom. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Major retailers using facial recognition technology on unsuspecting customers

It’s been revealed Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys have been creating “face prints” of their customers, including children, without their knowledge. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Neurotoxic peptides in SARS-COV2: potential implications for ‘brain fog’

Brain fog has emerged as one of the most debilitating symptoms of long COVID, affecting thousands of patients globally. Now, a group of scientists believe they are closer to unlocking the mystery. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Vladimir Putin, in speech, hints at further territorial expansion for Russia

Three months into his invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president drew parallels between Peter the Great’s founding of St Petersburg and his own modern-day ambitions. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

How low can you go? The golden rule of kakonomics (2013)

Why is so much in life so crappy? Partly because it's exhausting to constantly perform to a standard of excellence - so I'm told. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Chinese community in Australia vote against tough on China party

A backlash among Chinese-Australian voters played an important role in the outcome in marginal seats such as Bennelong, Reid, Parramatta and Chisholm. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Australia spent a million dollars training me – and now I’m leaving

Once a week, I sit down with my friend’s five-year-old nephew, Ben, and talk to him about numbers, planets and cells. Fun stuff. When my friend found out I was emigrating, he had one question. I think it’s a good one. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Goblin Mode

Why be #ThatGirl when you can be a goblin? | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

26M in lockdown after thousands of asymptomatic Omicron cases in Shanghai

China has reported 20,472 new daily COVID-19 cases for Tuesday, surpassing the number of infections found in the early days of the pandemic. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Australian judge sends Google for prosecution for not deleting defamatory videos

Justice Steven Rares said a video uploaded in December 2021, in the context of an ongoing defamation case, could constitute Google being in contempt of court. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

China Eastern crash: ‘Foul play at top of list’ says air crash investigator

The flight’s almost vertical descent matched the fate of two previous disasters. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Forrest pursues gravity-charged electric train to shift his iron ore

Fortescue chair Andrew Forrest has tasked Williams Advanced Engineering with developing electric trains that never need charging to shift its iron ore to port. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

China locks down tech hub Shenzhen as Covid cases rise

The surge in infections is thought to be linked to the neighbouring city of Hong Kong, where about 300,000 people are in isolation or under home quarantine. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Shane Warne Has Died

Thai forensic investigators were on Saturday evening examining the room where Shane Warne died of a suspected heart attack, while consular officials accompanied his devastated friends to speak with police. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

AGL coal rejects Atlassian founder and Brookfield's AUD$8B takeover bid

AGL’s board determined that the offer “materially undervalues” the company and would not be in shareholders’ best interests. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Atlassian founder launches bid for power company AGL to ‘accelerate coal exit’

Brookfield and tech billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes have launched a bid to take over Australian energy giant AGL and close its coal power plants sooner. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Warren Buffett bought – 15M shares in Activision Blizzard at end of 2021

Warren Buffett’s company placed a rare bet on a technology company late last year and it has already paid off in a big way. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Australian Government introduces ‘troll’ bill in Parliament

The federal government is forging ahead with its plan to amend the country’s defamation laws despite widespread criticism from legal experts. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

Is the great Australian holiday out of reach?

Skyrocketing prices and extended wait times have meant that taking off in a caravan and hitting the road is becoming less accessible for some Australians. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago

His body has been viewed by millions, but we don’t even know his name

Report calls for a ban on the importation of undocumented human body parts for commercial profit in the wake of the controversial 'Real Bodies' exhibition. | Continue reading


@smh.com.au | 2 years ago