Someone Is Trying To ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts
Apple’s Podcasts app on both iOS and Mac has been exhibiting strange behavior for months, spontaneously launching and presenting users with obscure religion, spirituality and education podcasts they never subscribed to – and at least one of these podcasts contains a link attempting a cross-site scripting attack, 404 Media reports. Joseph Cox, a journalist at t … ⌘ Read more

The power dynamic between Labor and mining has shifted
There has been a shift in the power dynamic between Labor and the mining industry. This week’s environmental law reform is its embodiment. ⌘ Read more

Europe doesn’t find the prospect of Russian aggression as funny as Putin does
Something has now been unleashed in Europe which is going to be hard to put back in the bottle. ⌘ Read more

‘Where is Imran Khan?’: Son of former Pakistani PM calls for proof of life
The family and political allies of Pakistan’s former prime minister say they’ve not been allowed to visit him in prison for weeks but authorities say he is well. ⌘ Read more

Australia’s Streaming Quotas Become Law
Australia’s streaming quotas have become law. Legislation requiring the likes of Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max to spend a portion of their local earnings on original Australian content has been passed in parliament, and now comes into effect. From a report: The quotas were announced earlier this month. This will see global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers made t … ⌘ Read more

Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy
China installed 295,000 industrial robots last year – nearly nine times as many as the United States and more than the rest of the world combined – as the country races to automate its manufacturing base amid rising labor costs at home and tariff threats from abroad.

The nation’s stock of operational robots surpassed 2 million in 2024, according to the Intern … ⌘ Read more

Why Google’s custom AI chips are shaking up the tech industry
Google is reportedly in talks to sell its tensor processing units – a type of computer chip specially designed for AI – to other tech companies, a move that could unsettle the dominant chip-maker Nvidia ⌘ Read more

Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance
This Black Friday is an in-depth look at the current performance of the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver (the Nova driver not yet being ready for end-users) paired with the latest Mesa NVK driver for open-source Vulkan API support. With that NVK Vulkan driver is also looking at the OpenGL performance using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver used now for OpenGL on modern NVIDIA GPUs rat … ⌘ Read more

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New Linux Patches Enhance Single-Threaded Performance On Many-Core CPUs
In addition to the proposed Hierarchical Queued NUMA-aware spinlocks for better performance, another interesting performance-enhancing patch series posted in the past 24 hours for the Linux kernel is for improving the performance of single-threaded tasks running on high core count CPU desktops / workstations / servers… ⌘ Read more

Black Friday Reminder For Those Hating Ads But Loving Linux Hardware/Software
As the one and last friendly reminder, if you enjoy the daily and original content found on Phoronix.com but not liking ads and wanting to view multi-page articles on a single page, native dark mode, and more: the 2025 Black Friday / Cyber Week deal is ending Monday to help support the site while enjoying a discounted rate… ⌘ Read more

Violent Conflict Over Water Hit a Record Last Year
Researchers at the Pacific Institute documented 420 water-related conflicts globally in 2024, a record that far surpasses the 355 incidents logged in 2023 and continues a trend that has seen such violence more than quadruple over the past five years. The Oakland-based water think tank’s database tracks disputes where water triggered violence, where water systems were target … ⌘ Read more

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Major AI Conference Flooded With Peer Reviews Written Fully By AI
An analysis of submissions to next year’s International Conference on Learning Representations has found that roughly one in five peer reviews were fully generated by AI, a discovery that came after researchers including Carnegie Mellon’s Graham Neubig grew suspicious of feedback on their manuscripts that seemed unusually verbose and requested n … ⌘ Read more

When I waste time writing a function… that already existed ⌘ Read more

Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may be behind tooth loss
Dental problems often arise or get worse during pregnancy, and a new study hints that rapid changes to the oral microbiome at this time could be at least partly to blame ⌘ Read more

Zelenskyy’s chief of staff sees home raided by anti-corruption unit
The raids come as Kyiv battles to persuade US officials to defend Ukraine’s interests in peace agreement talks. ⌘ Read more

Breaking: Eight people arrested over deadly Hong Kong fire
The city’s anti-corruption body made the arrests as the probe into what caused the deadly blaze continues. ⌘ Read more

Why Can’t ChatGPT Tell Time?
ChatGPT can browse the web, write code and analyze images, but ask it what time it is and you might get the correct answer, a confident wrong answer, or a polite refusal – sometimes all three within minutes of each other.

The problem stems from how large language models work. These systems predict answers based on training data and don’t receive constant real-time updates about things like time unless they specifically se … ⌘ Read more

AMD ISP4 Linux Webcam Driver Updated For HP ZBook Ultra G1a & Future Ryzen Laptops
We eagerly await to see if the AMD ISP4 driver will be ready for mainlining in the imminent Linux v6.19 merge window but it’s getting down to the wire and thus looking less likely it will make it unless action is taken in the coming days. Today though a sixth version of this AMD ISP4 image signal processor driver was posted for this last piece of the puzzle in enabling the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop as well as … ⌘ Read more

ICC rejects plea to release Philippine ex-president Rodrigo Duterte
The judge says it is “necessary” for the 80-year-old to remain in detention as the conditions proposed by his lawyers do not meet the conditions for parole. ⌘ Read more

NTFSPLUS Now Supports $MFT File Extension, FITRIM, More Mount Options
The NTFSPLUS Linux kernel driver as a modern NTFS file-system driver implementation continues quickly taking shape as it aims to become the most performant and feature-rich NTFS read/write driver for Linux systems… ⌘ Read more

HQspinlock Proposal For Linux Shows Very Nice Performance Benefits For Large Servers
A Huawei engineer has sent out patches proposing HQspinlock as a Hierarchical Queued NUMA-aware spinlock for the Linux kernel. HQspinlock aims to addresss inefficiencies within the Linux kernel’s spinlock on modern NUMA-systems due to frequent and costly cross-NUMA cache-line transfers… ⌘ Read more

Claims youth detainees in the NT being moved without families’ knowledge
Two politicians allege NT children in youth detention are being moved from Alice Springs to Darwin without their families’ knowledge. ⌘ Read more

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Melbourne Airport terminal evacuated, flights delayed after fire
The Qantas terminal is evacuated as firefighters respond to a small fire inside Melbourne Airport. ⌘ Read more

AWS Introduces DNS Failover Feature for Its Notoriously Unreliable US East Region
Amazon Web Services has rolled out a DNS resilience feature that allows customers to make domain name system changes within 60 minutes of a service disruption in its US East region, a direct response to the long history of outages at the cloud giant’s most troubled infrastructure.

AWS said customers in regulated i … ⌘ Read more

Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being  a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017 ⌘ Read more

Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years
Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment ⌘ Read more

Our verdict on sci-fi novel Every Version of You: We (mostly) loved it
New Scientist Book Club members share their thoughts on our November read, Grace Chan’s Every Version of You ⌘ Read more

Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Iain M. Banks’s classic sci-fi novel The Player of Games. In this extract, we meet protagonist Gurgeh for the first time ⌘ Read more

Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player of Games. Fellow science fiction author Bethany Jacobs reveals how his work inspired her ⌘ Read more

Iron ore royalties set to drop by billions but confidence remains
Western Australia has long prospered off its hefty irone ore mining royalties, but new figures reveal that revenue may drop by billions. ⌘ Read more

Kostecki wins Adelaide sprint race as Mostert closes in on Supercars title
Brodie Kostecki prevails in wet and wild conditions to win the opening Supercars grand final race, as Chaz Mostert closes in on the championship lead. ⌘ Read more

‘Repeat offender’ goanna runs away from home for second time in two years
One of a handful of Rosenberg’s goannas living in the ACT’s hill reserves has once again wandered off, prompting calls from a local conservation organisation for help bringing him back. ⌘ Read more

Behind Hong Kong’s skyline, thousands of old towers face rising risks
Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades exposed long-standing weaknesses in its aging residential blocks. The question haunting the city is whether the disaster could happen again. ⌘ Read more

Live: Kerr starts from the bench as Matildas face New Zealand in Gosford
The Matildas begin their final international window before hosting next year’s Asian Cup, with Sam Kerr in contention to play her first minutes on Australian soil in two years. Follow live. ⌘ Read more

Hacker who set up fake ‘evil twin’ Qantas Wi-Fi to steal passenger data jailed
A Perth hacker who copied intimate images and sex videos from women’s personal online accounts and set up fake Wi-Fi on Qantas flights is sentenced to more than seven years in prison. ⌘ Read more

Seven Years Later, Airbus is Still Trying To Kick Its Microsoft Habit
Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn’t completed the switch. The Register: As we exclusively revealed in March 2018, the aerospace giant told 130,000 employees it was ditching Microsoft’s productivit … ⌘ Read more

No charges for boy who allegedly stabbed 11yo at Melbourne school
Police say a boy who allegedly stabbed a child at a Berwick primary school will not face charges as he is under the age of criminal responsibility. ⌘ Read more

‘Zero tolerance’: Stores lose lotto licences in bid to disrupt illegal tobacco trade
Seven stores across Perth found to be selling illegal tobacco and vapes have their lotteries licences terminated, as attempts to disrupt the illicit and growing trade continues. ⌘ Read more

Black Friday Deals: AirPods 4 from $69, M4 MacBook Air from $749, & More
Black Friday Deals are live on tons of great Apple products and there are tons of great deals available from Amazon in particular. Whether you’re shopping for yourself or someone else this holiday season, take advantage of the deals while they last. You’ll find great deals on AirPods, Apple Watch, iPad, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/11/28/black-friday-deal … ⌘ Read more

AFLW have-nots receive league boost on grand final eve
Three of the AFLW’s worst-performing clubs will receive boosts to their lists, with the help announced the day before the grand final. ⌘ Read more

Going away over summer? Here’s how I prep my garden
Leaving my garden in the heat of summer can feel worrying but some simple planning means it misses me less than I miss it. ⌘ Read more

Dispute over Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre’s estate lands in Supreme Court
A legal battle over the reported multi-million-dollar estate of Virginia Giuffre, who was abused by US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is underway in Western Australia. ⌘ Read more

Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe
Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have spotted the first hints that they are real ⌘ Read more

Tasmanian government criticised for not signing up to federal housing scheme
Tasmania is the only state or territory which is not joining the federal government’s Help to Buy home ownership scheme, which aims to reduce the time it takes home buyers to save for a deposit. ⌘ Read more

Breaking: Trump says US is working to pause all migration from ‘Third World countries’
US President Donald Trump says his administration will work to permanently pause migration from all “Third World Countries” to allow the American system to fully recover. ⌘ Read more

DNA samples found near Toyah Cordingley burial site scrutinised
The former nurse accused of the 2018 murder of Toyah Cordingley was 3.7 billion times more likely than not to have contributed to a DNA sample found on a stick where she was buried, his trial has heard. ⌘ Read more

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