Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment

he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.
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Reckoning With Brexit, Five Years Later

Many of the promises of the E.U. referendum have yet to be fulfilled.
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‘Less water means more gas’: how drought will test California’s stressed power grid

California’s diminishing water supply is cutting down hydropower, causing the state to rely more on fossil fuels
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Indigenous peoples, in Oregon and beyond, are decolonizing maps

Western maps, imbued with the history and power structures of colonialism, often erase Indigenous people and culture from their traditional lands. Now, Indigenous cartographers are countering that erasure by decolonizing maps, in Oregon and throughout the world.
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Wattle is an Aussie icon. So why did scientists end up in a fight over its scientific name?

The first wattles of the season are about to burst into fluffy pom-poms of resplendent gold and pale cream. But in the early 2000s, these plants were in the centre of one of the world's biggest botanical controversies.
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Sorbs: The ethnic minority inside Germany

European nations have come and gone, but for more than 1,500 years, a Slavic-speaking ethnic minority has remained inside Germany.
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Words of wisdom from 15 Canadian novels

The stories we love best are filled with subtle (and not-so-subtle) lessons and perspectives. These quotes from 15 modern Canadian books offer unique insights into the lives we live.
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California's latest bid to bolster its economy? Releasing 17 million fish into the San Francisco Bay.

Some 146 shipments of salmon will take a 30,000-mile-long truck journey from hatcheries to direct release sites to maximize their survival rate.
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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster not a legal entity but a 'sham religion', tribunal rules

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will remain in the realms of satire, after an attempt to secure formal recognition as an incorporated entity was knocked by a South Australian legal authority on the grounds that the purported religion is nothing more than a "hoax".
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Friday essay: how our new archaeological research investigates Dark Emu's idea of Aboriginal 'agriculture' and villages

We have found 140 quarry sites, where rock was excavated to make seed grinding stones, in the Channel Country of Central Australia. It's part of a major project testing Bruce Pascoe's hypothesis.
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4-Day Workweek Boosted Workers' Productivity By 40%, Microsoft Japan Says

Employees at Microsoft Japan worked four days a week, enjoyed a three-day weekend — and got their normal, five-day paycheck. As part of the trial, the company also capped meetings at 30 minutes.
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Why no-one in America was arrested as part of a global sting on organised crime

More than 250 alleged criminal figures were charged in Australia after an international sting by the AFP and FBI involving an encrypted app. But not one arrest was made on American soil.
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Photos: California's Growing Drought Disaster

Two years of extremely dry weather have driven the levels of California’s reservoirs to near-record lows, and residents, farmers, and fire crews are preparing for a long, dry summer.
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Why the first river in Canada to become a legal person signals a boon for Indigenous Rights | The Narwhal

The Muteshekau Shipu (Magpie River) in Québec will enjoy new protections as Canada joins a global movement to recognize both Indigenous law and the rights of nature
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Lack of burial space is changing age-old funeral practices, and in Japan 'tree burials' are gaining in popularity

In a Japanese tree burial, cremated remains are placed in the ground and a tree is planted over the ashes to mark the gravesite. Environmental responsibility is part of Buddhism.
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'Over the top': backlash against TikTok's bee lady not justified, say bee experts

Erika Thompson is clearly a competent beekeeper, who's educating the public about honeybees in her own way on social media.
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Amazon-dwellers lived sustainably for 5,000 years

Indigenous people lived sustainably in the tropical Amazon rainforest for more than 5,000 years, a study shows.
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Australian Govt, AFP use AN0M bust to push for new range of encryption busting powers

Want to target bigger messaging services, 'criminal marketplaces'.
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Fall of Huawei: What we've lost and what we've gained - Android Authority

Huawei has quickly descended from the biggest smartphone vendor in the world to existing outside the top five. Here's what that means.
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Euro 2020: Ukraine's new football kit sparks Russian outrage over map including Crimea

A Russian's foreign ministry spokeswoman described the shirt's logo as "an agonising artistic liberty".
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The KKK ruled Denver a century ago. Here’s how the hate group’s legacy is still being felt in 2021.

Ripple effects of the Klan’s takeover of Denver’s power structures in the mid-1920s are still felt, especially after the release by History Colorado last month of digital copies of the Klan’s…
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New finding: in 49 Australian industries the major firms are owned by common investors

Shared ownership means Australian industries are far more concentrated than traditional metrics suggest.
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CSIRO boss explains why seL4 team was dumped - InnovationAus

CSIRO chief executive Dr Larry Marshall has explained why the agency sensationally dumped the team behind the seL4 microkernel, saying he did not believe it was feasible to spin out the research in Australia and that it didn’t fit with the agency’s new focus on AI. The Trustworthy Systems team, which developed the extremely hard-to-hack microkernel in use around the world and who are regarded as world-leading in the field, sits within CSIRO’s digital arm Data61 but was dropped by the agency last month. They quickly received interest from a number of potential overseas buyers, before receiving a funding lifeline from the University of...
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Australia is becoming a surveillance state

Government continues to give more powers to law enforcement.
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Help Rebuild Notre Dame by Sponsoring a Statue

A stone sculpture of a pelican named Corson is among the dozens of Notre Dame artifacts that you can support.
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Prince Harry Is Contradicting Himself

An examination of interviews that Harry has given over the years shows inconsistencies and omissions in the story he is now telling the world.
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TOLA laws weakening encryption also weaken trust, and pose multi-billion-dollar risk to Australian digital economy

Internet Australia welcomes the release of the first in-depth economic study into the likely detrimental impact of TOLA (Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018,
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The Pentagon Seriously Contemplated Nuking China in 1958

Newly leaked documents show that US officials in 1958 cavalierly planned a nuclear strike on China over a handful of disputed islands. As Washington once more stokes tensions with China, it’s a reminder of the callous recklessness at the heart of US foreign policy.
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