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Can Melbourne Afford to Give AI 20 Billion Litres of Drinking Water?

Melbourne’s water future is being quietly rewritten in the server rooms of an AI boom the city hasn’t really voted on yet. While storages are officially “secure” today, the combination of record‑low inflows and a tidal wave of new data‑centre water requests is turning a background planning issue into a live question about what – and who – our drinking water is really for.

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From Still Frame to 10-Second Story: How Wan 2.5 AI Handles Image-to-Video for Beginners

Wan 2.5 AI is one of the more practical “image to video” tools available right now, especially if you want short, social-ready clips rather than full-blown film experiments. For beginners and hobbyists, it’s simple enough: upload an image, describe the motion, pick resolution and length, and get a 5–10 second video with optional audio in a couple of minutes. The key reason to care is that Wan 2.5 focuses on doing one thing well—turning static visuals into believable motion with sound—without asking you to learn a full video editor or deal with complex timelines.

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Degrees In The Age Of AI: Still Worth It, Or Already Out Of Date?

AI has quietly broken the old deal that underpinned mass higher education: get a degree, land a graduate job, stay relevant for decades. Generative models now draft essays, write code and pass professional exams, while employers talk openly about hiring for skills over credentials. Yet as routine knowledge work is automated, the abilities good degrees should build—reasoning, judgment, communication, adaptability—have never mattered more.