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Prime Minister's bank account allegedly hacked.
An employee at one of the big four accounting firms has been fired after he and another man allegedly accessed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's personal banking account.
The men, aged 21 and 25, faced court on Tuesday over the breach which Australian Federal Police alleged occurred when the EY graduate was on secondment at the Commonwealth Bank.
Paul Issa was charged with accessing restricted data without authorisation, as well as distributing personal data. Meanwhile, Phillip Issa was charged with facilitating unauthorised access to restricted data.
An AFP spokesperson says the two Sydney men were charged on May 6 and granted bail to appear before Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday.
Both men had their bail continued until their next court appearance on August 25.
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Anti-racism program in schools.
School students across the country will have access to lessons combating anti-Semitism and discrimination.
An online hub for teachers, which includes classroom materials and professional tools, has been rolled out this week as part of the federal government's social cohesion education hub.
The hub will bring together resources focusing on dealing with discrimination, with about half dealing with anti-Semitism.
Lessons dealing with anti-Semitism and discrimination were among the recommendations put forward by the Special Envoy to Combat anti-Semitism Jillian Segal in 2025.
Supreme Court rejects Trump's appeal of sexual abuse case.
US President Donald Trump has failed in his attempt to have a sexual abuse ruling against him reviewed by the Supreme Court.
The justices on Monday rejected Trump's bid to overturn a $US5 million verdict in favour of E. Jean Carroll in a case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing the former magazine columnist and then defaming her.
In 2023, a New York jury deemed it proven that Trump had attacked, sexually abused and later defamed Carroll in a prestigious New York department store in 1996.
Trump was ordered to pay $7.3 million AUD in compensation.
Trump has been battling the former Elle magazine columnist ever since she published an excerpt from her memoir in 2019 in which she alleged Trump had raped her around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.
Trump denied Carroll's claims, saying she lied about the accusations both in 2019 while he was still serving his first term as president, and again in 2022 when he was out of office.
Trump expressed disappointment in the Supreme Court's decision not to hear the appeal and called Carroll's lawsuit "a Fake Case".
Australians trained to spot AI deepfakes.
Australians are being trained to spot the difference between real and AI-generated faces as the fight against fake content becomes increasingly complex.
Researchers at the Australian National University Emotions and Faces Lab have begun training people to spot AI-generated faces, with their work published in a scientific journal this week and replicated by colleagues abroad.
Lead researcher Amy Dawel says telling real faces apart from AI-generated ones had become more difficult as technology rapidly evolved.
The training offered by the ANU team directs people's attention to global qualities that differ between AI and human faces.
The researchers trained people to spot AI-generated faces by drawing their attention to six perceptual qualities: distinctiveness, memorability, proportionality, symmetry, attractiveness and expressiveness.
The team hopes its research can help people navigate increasingly complex digital environments, including fraud and staying safe online.
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Emma Thompson finds it "strange" to talk about Harry Potter.
Emma Thompson has said she feels "strange" talking about her role in the Harry Potter movies.
The 67-year-old English actress played Professor Sybill Trelawney in the Harry Potter film franchise.
Her first appearance as Trelawney was in the third film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban which was released in 2004.
Speaking to Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes on the Smartless podcast, Thompson said she finds talking about the movies a bit odd as she feels like a peripheral part of the series.
"Honestly, in my quite long career, given the fact that I'm good 10 years older than all of you guys, I have done many many parts and I've spent about 30 days on Harry Potter in my whole life," she told the podcast hosts.
"So it's kind of a strange thing to talk [about] because it's become such this huge phenomenon."
— with AAP.
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