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Clyde North's Thompsons Road roundabout swaps to lights early
Clyde North's $83.5 million Thompsons Road and Berwick-Cranbourne Road upgrade opened 28 September, seven months early, for 47,000 drivers a day.Brisbane's Beams Road goes four lanes as Stage 1B wraps up
Main works on Brisbane's Beams Road Stage 1B are done. It's now four lanes through Fitzgibbon for the more than 20,000 vehicles that use it every day.Melbourne Airport Rail Stage 2 to Keilor East starts within weeks
Early works on Melbourne Airport Rail's 7.4 km Stage 2 line to a new Keilor East station start within weeks. Trains are due there in 2031.Googlebook hits Australia Monday, Lenovo's from A$2,299
Lenovo says its Googlebook 15 starts at A$2,299. Google's Googlebook laptops go on sale in Australia on Monday 5 October.Microsoft's Windows and Surface event streams on 7 October
Microsoft streams its Windows, Surface and NVIDIA RTX Spark event on 7 October at 10am PT. That's 3:30am Thursday 8 October in Adelaide.One More Level's Soulslike Valor Mortis launches 13 October
One More Level's first-person Soulslike Valor Mortis launches on 13 October on PS5, Xbox and Steam for US$39.99, and on Game Pass from day one.Pokémon Legends: Z-A and its DLC share one Switch 2 card 29 Oct
Pokémon Legends: Z-A and its Mega Dimension DLC arrive on one Switch 2 game card on 29 October. Vooks says it's A$154.95, only from the Nintendo Store.KUMARANGK adds fourth session ahead of Adelaide Film Festival
The Adelaide Film Festival added a fourth KUMARANGK session on 2 October after three sold out. The festival runs 14 to 25 October with 122 films.How to get Windows 11 26H2 now, and check it installed
Microsoft began rolling out Windows 11 26H2 on 29 September, US time. Here's how to get it from Windows Update with one restart, and what to check first.How to write a C-style variadic function in Rust 1.99
Rust 1.99, out on 1 October, lets you define printf-style variadic functions. Here's a tested walkthrough, from rustup to calling Rust from C.How to set up the new Fire TV Stick 4K on your TV’s USB power
Amazon’s A$129 Fire TV Stick 4K can run off your TV’s USB port. Here’s how to set it up, and what to do if the TV says there isn’t enough power.How to move your books to Amazon’s new Kindle
Amazon’s redesigned Kindle is on sale in Australia from A$279. Here’s how to move your books, notes and personal files across, then wipe the old one.Daylight saving starts Sunday: check your phone, PC and clocks
Daylight saving starts at 2am on Sunday 4 October in SA, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT. Here's how to make sure your devices jump forward an hour.Police seized KillSec's leak site and say a 16-year-old ran it
Police in 10 countries seized the KillSec ransomware leak site and five servers on Wednesday 30 September. They suspect a 16-year-old was the leader.Iranian named as Mabna suspect Amir Barati extradited to the US
Montenegro extradited a 40-year-old Iranian to the US. Police gave only initials, but reports name him as Amir Barati, accused in Mabna's campus hacks.Chrome 154 fixed 11 security bugs, one a critical WebGL flaw
Google's Chrome 154 update, version 154.0.8037.97, landed on Thursday 1 October with 11 security fixes. One is critical, and none is flagged as exploited.GitLab fixed a critical AI Gateway flaw, its own servers first
GitLab fixed critical AI Gateway flaw CVE-2026-90970 on Friday 2 October. Self-hosters need 19.2.4, 19.3.2 or 19.4.1. GitLab.com users are covered.DHH's Omarchy Linux put US$100,000 into a HackerOne bug bounty
Omarchy, DHH's Linux distribution, opened a US$100,000 bug bounty on HackerOne on Friday 2 October, Adelaide time. Critical bugs pay up to US$1,500.Tesla's Model 3 gets a 16-inch screen and a quicker Performance
Every new Tesla Model 3 in the US now has a 16-inch screen, and the Performance rises to 528 hp. US prices haven't changed.Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II arrive on Switch 2
Square Enix's Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II hit Switch 2 on 1 October for US$59.99 each, with a sharper picture and smoother frame rates.
