From cameras to consoles: the ultimate tech gift guide for Christmas
Our favourite bits of kit make great presents, with options from $50 to $1000. ⌘ Read more
The “AOSP Devs” @aosp_devs@aosp_devs year in review:
A $70 million mirage: Lessons from Australia’s biggest start-up blow-up
Strongroom AI raised $17 million at a $70 million valuation. Three weeks later, investors called the police. ⌘ Read more
お知らせ：CyberNewsFlash「React Server Componentsの脆弱性（CVE-2025-55182）について」 ⌘ Read more
Facial age verification: Can it be fooled and how safe is it?
Scanning a face to guess its age is likely to be a major part of the “waterfall” of methods used to comply with the social media ban. ⌘ Read more
Meta’s AI wrongly bans Australian businesses
Instagram owner’s support systems have been labelled useless as the telecommunications ombudsman says complaints about social media and digital platforms are soaring. ⌘ Read more
Australia’s social media lockout begins as teens face digital exile
Meta will start booting under-16s from Facebook and Instagram on Thursday, while YouTube finally “begrudgingly” confirms compliance. ⌘ Read more
What if artificial intelligence is just a ‘normal’ technology?
Its rise might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions. ⌘ Read more
Advent of Code 2025 starts tomorrow. 🥳🎄
This year, I’m going to use Python 1 on SuSE Linux 6.4, writing the code on my trusty old Pentium 133 with its 64 MB of RAM. No idea if that old version of Python will be fast enough for later puzzles. We’ll see.
‘Thongs aren’t underwear’: The case for an Australian ChatGPT
Sovereign Australia AI wants to build a model that understands Australian culture and values. But does the country really need it? ⌘ Read more
Handheld Xbox might not be all it seems, but it’s a great portable PC
As the Xbox brand expands to all gaming platforms, the Xbox Ally X puts its best foot forward with huge performance and a streamlined UI. ⌘ Read more
Less-known social apps surge as teen users look for new home
The likes of Yope and Lemon8 are enjoying an uptick in Australia right now, but they will still be subject to the government’s regulations. ⌘ Read more
Victoria’s worst-for-business reputation? Atlassian says it hasn’t noticed
The Business Council of Australia has slammed Victoria’s taxes and red tape, but tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes says the criticism doesn’t stack up ⌘ Read more
お知らせ：JPCERT/CC ベストレポーター賞 2025 ⌘ Read more
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Social media ban: A guide for Australian parents
What you need to know, and what you can do. ⌘ Read more
https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html
AI systems being egregiously resource intensive is not a side effect — it’s the point.
And someone commented on that with:
I’m fascinated by the take about the resource usage being an advantage to the AI bros.
They’ve created software that cannot (practically) be replicated as open source software / free software, because there is no community of people with sufficient hardware / data sets. It will inherently always be a centralized technology.
Fascinating and scary.
‘Premium prices for a downgrade’: $96.5 million BoM website savaged
Pressure is mounting on the agency and its newly minted chief executive Stuart Minchin after a major cost blowout. ⌘ Read more
Victorian premier demands answers after copper thieves trigger Optus crisis
Jacinta Allan has sought an urgent briefing after another Optus outage left more than 14,000 customers in the lurch. ⌘ Read more
Fresh Optus outage impacting emergency service calls
The incident is thought to be caused by vandalism, with no current timing for a fix. ⌘ Read more
Fresh Optus outage impacting emergency service calls
The incident is thought to be caused by vandalism, with no current timing for a fix. ⌘ Read more
Just because a robot can walk, doesn’t mean it can work
The tech industry is obsessed with humanoid robots, and people are fascinated by them. But for almost every application they’re pitched for, they make zero sense. ⌘ Read more
How bad was the “Digital Sovereignty Summit”?
Heise explains: https://www.heise.de/en/opinion/Analysis-of-the-Digital-Sovereignty-Summit-Open-Source-Gets-Scolded-11084765.html
But I’ll highlight one thing - the Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty, published and signed there, has this ridiculous sentence:
“Open-source solutions can play an important role enhancing digital sovereignty, provided they meet high cybersecurity standards and are complemented by reliable proprietary technologies where appropriate.”
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I just noticed this pattern:
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And regarding those broken URLs: I once speculated that these bots operate on an old dataset, because I thought that my redirect rules actually were broken once and produced loops. But a) I cannot reproduce this today, and b) I cannot find anything related to that in my Git history, either. But it’s hard to tell, because I switched operating systems and webservers since then …
But the thing is that I’m seeing new URLs constructed in this pattern. So this can’t just be an old crawling dataset.
I am now wondering if those broken URLs are bot bugs as well.
They look like this (zalgo is a new project):
https://www.uninformativ.de/projects/slinp/zalgo/scksums/bevelbar/
When you request that URL, you get redirected to /git/:
$ curl -sI https://www.uninformativ.de/projects/slinp/zalgo/scksums/bevelbar/
HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 06:13:51 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 510
Location: /git/
And on /git/, there are links to my repos. So if a broken client requests https://www.uninformativ.de/projects/slinp/zalgo/scksums/bevelbar/, then sees a bunch of links and simply appends them, you’ll end up with an infinite loop.
Is that what’s going on here or are my redirects actually still broken … ?
An offer he couldn’t refuse: The young Aussie who couldn’t say no to Zuckerberg
Australians are plentiful in Silicon Valley building the future of AI intelligence. And they’re earning pay packets that defy belief. ⌘ Read more
Single executable container image with Go
1 points posted by Everton Marques ⌘ Read more
‘Very beautiful’: A new robot dances for Putin days after embarrassing faceplant
The unusual event was watched closely by Putin’s bodyguards, one of whom stood between the robot and the Russian leader afterwards to make sure it moved away from him and did not get too close. ⌘ Read more
Google’s Gemini 3: what’s new and what can it do?
The latest AI from Google makes big promises for developers and power users, but how does it compare in everyday tasks? ⌘ Read more
Cloudflare chaos: Third internet outage in four weeks triggers global disruptions
A massive outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare triggered a wave of “500 Internal Server Errors” across the globe, knocking substantial portions of the web offline. ⌘ Read more
To everyone previously asking, what my (and other developers) endless complaining about Google, to both every EU body, with a form on their website and every relevant team at Google accomplished…
WE FUCKING WON!!!
“While security is crucial, we’ve also heard from developers and power users who have a higher risk tolerance and want the ability to download unverified apps.”
-source
I was also able to work with my new webhost, to bring back “🐕.fr.to” - everyones favorite vanity redirect domain, for my site, Googles changes to SSL warnings in Chrome, killed at the beginning of this year.
The lesson: I NEED TO COMPLAIN MORE
Internet outage that sparked chaos across the world resolved
Cloudflare works behind the scenes to make the internet faster and safer, but when problems flare up “it results in massive digital gridlock”. That’s what happened overnight. ⌘ Read more
TPG says person dead after failed Triple Zero call
The telco says the person died in Sydney after a Samsung device was unable to connect to emergency services. ⌘ Read more
‘Most exciting shooter on the market’? Battlefield 6 devs throws down the gauntlet
As Call of Duty launches their next major title, 9news.com.au sat down with Battlefield 6’s Justin Wiebe and Thomas Andersson to talk post-launch records, their new free-to-play mode, and how Battlefield plans to stand out. ⌘ Read more
お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「SigmaおよびYARAルールを活用したリアルタイムクライアント監視ツールYAMAGoya」 ⌘ Read more
TPG says person dead after failed Triple Zero call
The telco says the person died in Sydney after a Samsung device was unable to connect to emergency services. ⌘ Read more
TPG says person dead after failed Triple Zero call
The telco says the person died in Sydney after a Samsung device was unable to connect to emergency services. ⌘ Read more
TPG customer dies after failed Triple Zero call
The telco says the Sydney customer died after their Samsung device was unable to connect to emergency services. ⌘ Read more
Cybercriminals unleash fake Centrelink scam on vulnerable Australians
More than 270,000 malicious emails impersonating Services Australia and Centrelink have flooded Australian inboxes. ⌘ Read more
AWS: Working to bridge the AI gap in Australia
The AI revolution presents an enormous opportunity for Australia, but only if the crucial skills gap is addressed. AWS is directly confronting this challenge by accelerating AI adoption in enterprises, backing the next generation of startups, and establishing a foundational curriculum in schools. ⌘ Read more
The ‘Chinese Apple’ is bringing budget tech down under, but is it any good?
We test five products from Chinese technology giant Xiaomi’s Australian lineup, including an $80 smartwatch and a flagship phone. ⌘ Read more
Virtual reality had its chance. It blew it
I’ve spent more time this year thinking about virtual reality than actually using it. That should tell you everything you need to know about VR’s state of play in 2025. ⌘ Read more
Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
Article URL: https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936460
Points: 500
# Comments: 165 ⌘ Read more
PSOs to be redeployed from train stations in retail crime crackdown
Security patrols at 120 “low-crime rate” train stations will be scaled back as Protective Services Officers’ target major suburban retail hubs and crime hot spots on the rail network. ⌘ Read more
Sydney’s food truck divide: The suburbs with hundreds and those with none
There are close to 2000 food trucks in Sydney. See how many your area has. ⌘ Read more
Eastern suburbs council votes to trade native trees for ocean views
A Sydney council has voted to remove trees in clifftop reserves in some of Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs to restore ocean views for waterfront residents. ⌘ Read more
‘Terrible’: P-plate driver charged after pregnant woman killed in Sydney’s north
A 33-year-old woman who was eight months’ pregnant has died, along with her unborn child, after being struck by a car in Sydney’s north-west. ⌘ Read more
The Age photos of the week, November 15, 2025
The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age ⌘ Read more
Amyl and the Sniffers’ free gig shut down over security fears in Melbourne
A free gig by Australian rockers Amyl and the Sniffers has been shut down after security fences at Federation Square “got crushed in”. ⌘ Read more
Cycling body welcomes Queensland e-bike crackdown
E-bike suppliers have been warned they face hefty fines if they sell non-compliant bikes, following the recent deaths of two boys. ⌘ Read more
Police hunt more protesters over planned rock-throwing attack on officers
Images have been released of seven more protesters who police have accused of assault during a Melbourne protest last month. ⌘ Read more