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SpaceX
SpaceX puts Starship Booster 21 on the pad for Flight 14
SpaceX has rolled Super Heavy booster B21 to Starbase Pad 2 for Starship Flight 14, the first planned orbital attempt, no earlier than 28 September.
Australia
Hanson in Wagga: 'The best employee is homegrown'
Pauline Hanson toured Flip Screen in Wagga on 21 September and said the best employee is homegrown. She was due to open Henty Field Days the next day.
United States
CNN, MS NOW and Politico sue over the White House press ban
CNN, MS NOW and Politico have sued over Trump's White House ban and the loss of their reporters' press passes. A hearing was set for Wednesday.
Australia
Bowen to Hanson: 'You can't claim to be patriotic'
Chris Bowen used the 2026 Curtin Oration to call Pauline Hanson's patriotism exclusive and angry, and made the case for a progressive version.
Game Reviews
Stellar Blade gets four free Bayonetta outfits at Switch 2 launch
Stellar Blade gets four free Bayonetta outfits on PS5, PC and Switch 2 on 6 November, the day its Complete Edition reaches Switch 2. A demo is out.
Space
NASA buys three more SpaceX crew flights
NASA has bought SpaceX's Crew-15, Crew-16 and Crew-17 missions for $946 million, taking SpaceX to 17 missions and $5.92 billion on the contract.
Computing
Four Linux kernel root flaws, including DirtyAH6, go public
Four Linux flaws that let a local user take full control, including DirtyAH6 and TUNderflow, are now public. Kernel updates fixing all four are out.
Australia
Hanson, Payman and Le say MPs' staffing system is broken
Pauline Hanson, Fatima Payman and Dai Le stood together in Canberra on 17 September to call the personal-adviser staffing system completely broken.
AI / LLM
OpenAI opened the misalignment ledger
OpenAI has published a voluntary framework for tracking and disclosing model misalignment, plus its first six reports from unreleased training.
Australia
ABC names One Nation booth volunteer from 2023 tribunal finding
The ABC has named David Donis, the subject of a 2023 tribunal finding on neo-Nazi ideologies, as a One Nation booth volunteer at Secret Harbour.
Space
HEO satellite spent about 78 hours near a Chinese rocket body
Australian company HEO says its Continuum-1 satellite held within 100 km of a dead Chinese rocket body in orbit for about 78 hours.