Saturday 24 October 2026

The Archive

The Archive

EV

Atto 3 EVO Hits Showrooms

BYD's Atto 3 EVO starts Australian deliveries in September 2026, from $41,990 plus on-road costs for the Dynamic and $46,990 for the Premium.

Christian

Leo Flies to France in September

Pope Leo XIV makes his first apostolic journey to France from 25 to 28 September, with stops in Paris, Lourdes and Metz.

United States

SPARC Puts Lunar Reactor on Paper

NASA Glenn has posted a draft SPARC solicitation for space nuclear power, including a lunar reactor, with a 2030 goal for landing on the Moon.

Christian

Pope Leo XIV calls mutual love the debt that doesn't enslave

Pope Leo XIV said on Sunday that mutual love is the one debt that doesn't imprison anyone. On Monday in Genazzano, he prayed to Our Lady of Good Counsel.

Hacking

Magento zero-day StyleSmuggler hit stores before Adobe's fix

Sansec says a Magento and Adobe Commerce zero-day it calls StyleSmuggler was under attack from 4 September. Adobe issued an emergency fix on 7 September.

Space

Artemis III Got Its Engines

Technicians finished installing Artemis III's four RS-25 engines on the work stand at Kennedy on 1 September, ready for core-stage integration.

EV

BEV Passed Petrol in August

Battery-electric cars outsold petrol in Australia for the first time in August 2026, with 27,078 sales and 24.9% of the market. BYD was the No. 2 brand.

Australia

Bowen calls EVs outselling petrol cars in August a landmark

Chris Bowen called it a landmark when battery-electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in August. Toyota stayed top brand, ahead of BYD and Tesla.

United States

Six Nuclear Bills Cleared Committee

Six bipartisan nuclear permitting bills have cleared the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously, one of them 44 to 0.

Australia

One Nation: let renters and mortgage holders take super as pay

One Nation's plan would let renters and mortgage holders take 3 percentage points of the 12% super guarantee as pay for up to three years.

AI / LLM

Broadcom Named Anthropic Next

Broadcom says Anthropic is on track to be its biggest custom AI chip buyer in 2027 and 2028. AI chip revenue rose 221% to US$16.7 billion last quarter.