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‘Digital colonialism’: how AI companies are following the playbook of empire

November 26, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Russ-Smith, Associate Professor, Social Work and Deputy Head of School, School of Allied Health, Australian Catholic University Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN, CC BY-SA In the eyes of big AI companies such as OpenAI, the troves of data on the internet are ... <a title="‘Digital colonialism’: how AI companies are following the playbook of empire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/digital-colonialism-how-ai-companies-are-following-the-playbook-of-empire-269285/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Digital colonialism’: how AI companies are following the playbook of empire">Read more</a>

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What is happening with the government’s contentious review of the Waitangi Tribunal?

November 26, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carwyn Jones, Honorary Adjunct Professor, Te Kawa a Māui – School of Māori Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Fiona Goodall/Getty Images Resistance to the New Zealand government’s policies aimed at rolling back Māori rights and protections under te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi ... <a title="What is happening with the government’s contentious review of the Waitangi Tribunal?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/what-is-happening-with-the-governments-contentious-review-of-the-waitangi-tribunal-270372/" aria-label="Read more about What is happening with the government’s contentious review of the Waitangi Tribunal?">Read more</a>

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Bird sex fascinated medieval thinkers as much as people today

November 26, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Davidson, Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University A late 15th century French version of a scientific study written by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 170, fol. 11r. Earlier this year, a group of researchers published a ... <a title="Bird sex fascinated medieval thinkers as much as people today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/bird-sex-fascinated-medieval-thinkers-as-much-as-people-today-267969/" aria-label="Read more about Bird sex fascinated medieval thinkers as much as people today">Read more</a>

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Golden retriever and human behaviour may be linked by the same genes – new research

November 26, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Mills, Professor of Veterinary Behavioural Medicine, University of Lincoln PeopleImages/Shutterstock Humans have probably shared their homes with dogs ever since they first settled. So it could be argued that there is no such thing as “human society” without including animals as part of it. Our long ... <a title="Golden retriever and human behaviour may be linked by the same genes – new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/golden-retriever-and-human-behaviour-may-be-linked-by-the-same-genes-new-research-270402/" aria-label="Read more about Golden retriever and human behaviour may be linked by the same genes – new research">Read more</a>

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‘Without prejudice’: What this 2-word legalese means for the dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James

November 26, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Brescia, Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life, Albany Law School Former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in remotely at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on Sept. 30, 2020. Ken Cedeno-Pool/Getty Images A federal judge on Nov. 24, 2025, dismissed the ... <a title="‘Without prejudice’: What this 2-word legalese means for the dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/without-prejudice-what-this-2-word-legalese-means-for-the-dismissed-charges-against-james-comey-and-letitia-james-270559/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Without prejudice’: What this 2-word legalese means for the dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James">Read more</a>

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The uncompromising politics of Jimmy Cliff

November 26, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kenny Monrose, Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge “I have a dislike for politicians as they’re not truthful people. It’s the nature of politics that you cannot be straight, you have to lie and cheat,” said the reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, who died on November 24 ... <a title="The uncompromising politics of Jimmy Cliff" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/the-uncompromising-politics-of-jimmy-cliff-270596/" aria-label="Read more about The uncompromising politics of Jimmy Cliff">Read more</a>

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The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up

November 26, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Lee, Professor and Director of Research Impact and AI Strategy, Mississippi State University ChatGPT has become the go-to app for hundreds of millions of people. AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato Three years ago, if someone needed to fix a leaky faucet or understand inflation, they usually did one ... <a title="The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/the-chatgpt-effect-in-3-years-the-ai-chatbot-has-changed-the-way-people-look-things-up-270143/" aria-label="Read more about The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up">Read more</a>

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How to donate your poo to science or medicine

November 26, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nadeem O. Kaakoush, Scientia Associate Professor, Host-Microbiome Interactions Group, UNSW Sydney DBenitostock/Getty When most people think about donating body parts to science or medicine, they might think of life-saving donations of organs, tissues or blood. But you can also donate your poo. The idea is to use ... <a title="How to donate your poo to science or medicine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/how-to-donate-your-poo-to-science-or-medicine-266361/" aria-label="Read more about How to donate your poo to science or medicine">Read more</a>

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‘The main thing you’ve got is TikTok’: how the social media ban could harm African diaspora youth

November 26, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Baak, Senior Lecturer, UniSA Education Futures, University of South Australia Cottonbro Studios/ Pexels The Australian government’s social media ban will begin in about two weeks. From December 10, those under 16 will no longer be able to have personal accounts on sites such as YouTube, TikTok ... <a title="‘The main thing you’ve got is TikTok’: how the social media ban could harm African diaspora youth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/the-main-thing-youve-got-is-tiktok-how-the-social-media-ban-could-harm-african-diaspora-youth-270288/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The main thing you’ve got is TikTok’: how the social media ban could harm African diaspora youth">Read more</a>

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A backlash against AI imagery in ads may have begun as brands promote ‘human-made’

November 26, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Harrison, Director, Master of Business Administration Program (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University In a wave of new ads, brands like Heineken, Polaroid and Cadbury have started hating on artificial intelligence (AI), celebrating their work as “human-made”. But in these advertising campaigns on TV, billboards ... <a title="A backlash against AI imagery in ads may have begun as brands promote ‘human-made’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/a-backlash-against-ai-imagery-in-ads-may-have-begun-as-brands-promote-human-made-269276/" aria-label="Read more about A backlash against AI imagery in ads may have begun as brands promote ‘human-made’">Read more</a>

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View from The Hill: it’s been a carefully orchestrated political courtship, but the marriage could be rocky

November 25, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Pauline Hanson dines with Barnaby Joyce in her office at Parliament House The Senate might be thoroughly sick of Pauline Hanson’s antics – on Tuesday it suspended her for seven days over her appearance in a burqa – but she’s ... <a title="View from The Hill: it’s been a carefully orchestrated political courtship, but the marriage could be rocky" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/25/view-from-the-hill-its-been-a-carefully-orchestrated-political-courtship-but-the-marriage-could-be-rocky-269915/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: it’s been a carefully orchestrated political courtship, but the marriage could be rocky">Read more</a>

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How the Trump administration tried to sell Ukraine a diplomatic debacle

November 25, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University A flurry of recent diplomatic activity has seen two competing peace plans for Ukraine emerge. The first, widely touted as a US plan, was apparently hashed out between Kremlin ... <a title="How the Trump administration tried to sell Ukraine a diplomatic debacle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/25/how-the-trump-administration-tried-to-sell-ukraine-a-diplomatic-debacle-270561/" aria-label="Read more about How the Trump administration tried to sell Ukraine a diplomatic debacle">Read more</a>