Starlink access still not fully restored for Ukraine’s military, says Zelenskyy
Ukrainian president says US limiting access was a ‘dangerous and unpleasant surprise’, amid reports the order came from inside White House * Europe live – latest updates Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the Ukrainian military’s access to the Starlink satellite internet service has not yet been fully restored, as media reports suggested the order to throttle the service had come from within the White House. Zelenskyy met European leaders on Friday in Brussels, where he asked the EU for another €70bn next year to fund Ukraine’s defence against Russia. Continue reading...
Could Tesla’s flying car send sales and shares soaring?
Tesla revealed its next-generation Roadster on Thursday in Texas, with one of the three new versions performing a jaw-dropping kickflip and demonstrating flying capabilities. However, analysts contacted by Euronews Business do not expect the model to generate significant revenue.
We are now watching Donald Trump’s presidency die on live TV
After a topsy-turvy week in which Donald Trump reluctantly called off the livestreaming of an execution, and branded Kyiv’s retaliatory strikes on Russian oil refineries ‘a disgrace’, we will one day recognise these moments as the first death throes of his presidency, says Chris Stevenson
Gone to the dogs: racing fans mourn closure of ‘Wenty’, Sydney’s historic greyhound track
Thousands pack Wentworth Park for the final time before the stadium is demolished and returned to parkland * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The end of an era has fallen upon an Australian sporting landmark as the greyhound races at an inner-city track kick off for the very last time. Thousands packed into Wentworth Park in central Sydney on Friday night, where greyhound races have been held since 1932, for the last race meeting before the track’s planned demolition. Continue reading...
Decluttering your online life: how to get your digital house in order and protect your data from AI
The average person spends 40% of their waking hours online. Clearing out digital clutter can minimise environmental impacts and boost productivity * Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprint * Got a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at changebydegrees@theguardian.com Many Australians worry about datacentres swallowing up local land and energy but we rarely look closely at our own digital trails. Our endless photo and video streams, bursting inboxes and unread subscriptions all feed the appetite for ever growing digital infrastructure. The average person spends 40% of their waking hours online – browsing the web or social media, streaming music or videos, or communicating – producing the equivalent of 229kg of carbon emissions, a study in Nature Communications found. And using AI tools and chatbots to generate text, images or video consumes “orders of magnitude” more energy than traditional computing methods. Continue reading...
Mortgage repayments are now cheaper than rent in some Australian suburbs. Is yours among them?
As house prices plateau, the gap between the cost of buying and renting is narrowing in dozens of suburbs * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast High rents and falling property prices have opened a rare window for Australian tenants to become homeowners, with mortgage repayments cheaper than rent in dozens of suburbs. Guardian Australia’s analysis of Cotality data shows that median rents in inner-city Melbourne, suburban Canberra and Darwin are now nearly matching weekly home loan repayments. In one in 10 suburbs and towns across the country, repayments are less than $200 a week higher than rent, for the typical property. In some suburbs, they are actually cheaper. Continue reading...
Cloudy with a chance of moths: bogong swarms are bamboozling weather radars across NSW
Radar systems designed for rain, hail and snow are picking up bogong moths migrating to the Australian Alps * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It was during Sydney’s Olympic Games in 2000, people say, that a swarm of bogong moths attracted by stadium lights was so huge that meteorologists mistook it for rain. Fast forward 26 years and the bogongs are back in big numbers. And, this time, they are firmly on the radar. Continue reading...
Oregon shooting victims: three boys and female teacher killed at elementary school
Father of five-year-old Rhoam Summer says family ‘broken and lost’, while seven-year-old and 54-year-old in hospital Authorities are investigating a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, where a 16-year-old shooter killed four people before being shot dead by a bystander. The shooting took place on Thursday afternoon at Silver Rail elementary school, about 125 miles (200km) south-east of Portland. Continue reading...
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