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Space
Chandra ties the Treble Clef to a galaxy cluster collision
Chandra and LOFAR show VLSS J0318.9+5755 is a radio phoenix revived when two galaxy clusters collided behind the Milky Way.
Christian
Pope Leo homily: no future without strong families
Cardinal Tagle read Pope Leo's Amoris Laetitia homily in Saint Peter's Square, holding the bishops' synthesis so Leo can answer it himself.
Australia
McPhillamys goldmine: court voids Plibersek heritage order
Justice Stellios found Plibersek's 2024 order over the Belubula headwaters near Blayney was made without authority. Murray Watt must now decide again.
AI / LLM
Grok Voice 3.0 tops speech-to-speech index at $0.08 a minute
Grok Voice 3.0 scores 86.9 on the Artificial Analysis index, keeps its $0.08 a minute API price and already runs Tesla cars and Starlink call centres.
Borderline
US border encounters fall as ICE removals pass 356,000
US border encounters in the 2026 fiscal year are a fraction of 2023 levels. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has removed more than 356,000 people.
SpaceX
Starlink Starshield speed limit disrupts Ukraine's drones
Ukraine says Starshield terminals cut out above 160 km/h and drone missions were scrapped. Musk says the US military and the president set those limits.
Australia
Shoebridge’s lies charge fails the test of his own record
Greens leader David Shoebridge says the Coalition is dancing to One Nation’s tune by spreading lies. His own record on online safety laws says otherwise.
Australia
One Nation still rejects Labor’s Digital Duty of Care bill
Labor has dropped the minister’s power to invent new online harms. One Nation still wants the whole Digital Duty of Care bill killed.
Hacking
Ivanti Connect Secure zero-days chained, one still unpatched
CISA set a Friday deadline on CVE-2026-104935 after Volexity found a three-bug chain that gives unauthenticated root on Ivanti Connect Secure.
Computing
AMD's EPYC Verano brings 192 cores and LPDDR5X in 2027
Lisa Su showed the AI-focused Zen 6 server chip at the OCP Global Summit. It's the first EPYC to use replaceable SOCAMM2 memory.
Reviews
Boltgun 2 reviews: critics say the sequel beats the original
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 scores an 84 Top Critic Average on OpenCritic. Critics praise the two heroes and levels but flag dumb AI and bugs.