Friday 23 October 2026

The Archive

The Archive

Australia

Pauline Hanson demands the ATO reverse its credit card ban

Pauline Hanson wants the ATO to keep taking credit cards after 30 June 2027. Teal MP Allegra Spender and the Coalition want the same thing.

Australia

Warren Pickering wants Victoria’s native forests reopened

Warren Pickering says a One Nation government would restart native timber harvesting in Victoria on a Tasmanian-style model. The state ban began in 2024.

Space

Crew-13 docks at the ISS in under eight hours

Crew-13's Dragon Grace docked at the ISS on Thursday 1 Oct, 7 hours 55 minutes after launch. NASA says no U.S. spacecraft has got there faster.

Computing

NVIDIA patched 114 holes in its GPU drivers

NVIDIA fixed 114 security holes in its GPU drivers on 30 September. If you run an NVIDIA card on Windows or Linux, it's time to update.

Australia

Hanson says Chalmers should resign after fourth rate hike

Pauline Hanson says Jim Chalmers should resign. It comes after the RBA lifted the cash rate to 4.60% on 29 September, its fourth hike of 2026.

AI / LLM

OpenAI says it shut down a campaign to copy its models’ hidden reasoning

OpenAI says it shut down a July campaign to copy its models’ hidden reasoning. It attributes a core cluster to people associated with China’s Moonshot AI.

Australia

Hanson wants power to shut extremist mosques: ‘Bondi should have ended the excuses’

Hanson wants federal power to shut extremist mosques. She asked on 28 September after the SMH reported preacher Abu Ahmad urged followers to take up arms.

Christian

Metz closed Pope Leo's France trip

Pope Leo XIV ended his France trip in Metz on Monday 28 September. He hailed EU founding father Robert Schuman and Europe's Christian roots, and said Mass.

Hacking

NetScaler got hit before the fix

Hackers are already using two new flaws to break into Citrix NetScaler boxes. US federal agencies have until Wednesday 30 September to fix them.

Australia

Rinehart allegedly asked Henry Pike about One Nation. He says he'll always be a Liberal

Gina Rinehart asked Queensland LNP MP Henry Pike about joining One Nation at a January lunch, Four Corners reports. Pike says he'll always be a Liberal.

Breaking

Trump rejected the Hormuz roadmap

Trump rejected Iran's seven-day Strait of Hormuz roadmap on Saturday. Tehran says it still wants diplomacy through Qatar.