WBC title bout for Sheeraz after Crawford stripped
Briton Hamzah Sheeraz will fight for the WBC super-middleweight world title after Terence Crawford was stripped of the belt. ⌘ Read more

Nursery worker admits sexually abusing children
Vincent Chan, 45, admits multiple offences including assault by penetration. ⌘ Read more

Higher proportion of patients in England now contacting GPs online, figures show
All NHS practices were required by the government to provide web bookings from October - but the union opposes the move. ⌘ Read more

Nursery worker admits sexually abusing children
Vincent Chan, 45, admits multiple offences including assault by penetration. ⌘ Read more

Nursery worker admits sexually abusing children
Vincent Chan, 45, admits multiple offences including assault by penetration. ⌘ Read more

Salford Red Devils wound up by High Court over debts
Troubled former Super League club Salford Red Devils are wound up by the High Court. ⌘ Read more

Salford Red Devils wound up by High Court over debts
Troubled former Super League club Salford Red Devils are wound up by the High Court. ⌘ Read more

WA’s surrogacy, IVF laws overhauled as legislation passes parliament
Same-sex couples, single people, transgender and intersex West Australians will be able to access assisted reproductive technology and surrogacy, almost a decade after reforms were first promised. ⌘ Read more

When the boss starts talking about my next project during my lunch break ⌘ Read more

5.4.302: longterm
Version:5.4.302 (EOL) (longterm)Released:2025-12-03Source:linux-5.4.302.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-5.4.302.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.4.302 ⌘ Read more

William and Kate greet German president on first state visit in 27 years
Germany’s president will receive a ceremonial welcome from the King and a state banquet in Windsor Castle. ⌘ Read more

Sound Open Firmware 2.14 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake & Nova Lake Support
Sound Open Firmware is one of the projects started originally by Intel but has grown into a multi-vendor initiative for open-source audio digital signal processing (DSP) firmware and development tooling for a variety of platforms under the Linux Foundation umbrella… ⌘ Read more

Australia to provide Ukraine with $95m funding boost
Australia will provide an additional $95 million in military assistance to Ukraine and slap a fresh round of sanctions on ships believed to be part of Moscow’s so-called “shadow fleet”. ⌘ Read more

Scoped User Access In Linux 6.19 To Reduce Speculation Barriers & Its Performance Hit
Merged yesterday to the Linux 6.19 Git codebase was the “core/uaccess” pull that introduces new scoped user-mode access with auto-cleanup functionality. This can reduce the number of speculation barriers encountered when needing to access user-mode memory and thereby avoiding some of the performance penalties incurred by speculation barriers… ⌘ Read more

AES-GCM Optimizations Land In Linux 6.19 - Benefiting AMD Zen 3, AVX-512 CPUs Too
Google engineer Eric Biggers who is known for his many Linux crypto subsystem performance optimizations has seen his latest pull requests land in Linux 6.19. Notable among them are some AES-GCM optimizations benefiting AMD Zen 3 processors and separately AVX-512 processors also benefit too from this latest round of optimization work… ⌘ Read more

X.Org Server’s xkbcomp Updated For Four Security Issues Dating Back Years
Red Hat’s Peter Hutterer announced the release today of xkbcomp 1.5, the CLI utility used for compiling X Keyboard Extension (XBD) keyboard descriptions for the X.Org Server. Driving this new xkbcomp release are fixes for four security issues… ⌘ Read more

Trump says he doesn’t want Somali migrants in US
The president says the US will “go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country”. ⌘ Read more

LandSpace Could Become China’s First Company To Land a Reusable Rocket
China’s private launch firm LandSpace is preparing the debut flight of its Zhuque-3 rocket, aiming to become the country’s first to land a reusable orbital-class booster using a Falcon-9-style return profile. Ars Technica reports: Liftoff could happen around 11 pm EST tonight (04:00 UTC Wednesday), or noon local time at the Jiuquan … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: SAFE for Elixir: Phoenix LiveView
Erlang Solutions launched SAFE, a Security Audit for Erlang in the fall of 2023. We extended the analysis for Elixir in the spring of 2024 and now, SAFE officially supports Phoenix Liveview, which means a SAFE scan is now looking for vulnerabilities common in Phoenix web applications.

[SAFE](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/services/security-audit-for-erlang-and-elixir/#:~:text=SAFE%20is%20an%20audit%20procedure,Any%20security% … ⌘ Read more

Water bill rises push troubled Thames back into profit
As it stands, Thames Water has sufficient cash to make it to the first quarter of next year. ⌘ Read more

Treasurer hopeful Fremantle Traffic Bridge shutdown will be less than a year
The WA government could consider limiting truck movements across the Stirling Bridge at peak hour to limit traffic congestion when the Fremantle Traffic Bridge closes, the deputy premier says. ⌘ Read more

Australia’s reliance on fuel imports is leaving the country exposed
With just two refineries left and 80 per cent of liquid fuel being imported, experts are warning Australia is increasingly vulnerable to global supply shocks. ⌘ Read more

Higher proportion of patients in England now contacting GPs online, figures show
All NHS practices were required by the government to provide web bookings from October. ⌘ Read more

Airbus to inspect some planes over ‘quality issue’ with panels
The announcement comes days after a massive recall affecting thousands of the firm’s A320 fleet. ⌘ Read more

‘Carspreading’ is on the rise - and not everyone is happy about it
In the UK and across Europe, cars are becoming longer, wider and heavier. ⌘ Read more

Controversial remote NT rent hikes struck down by High Court
A remote rent policy that saw some Northern Territory residents slugged with hikes of up to $300 a fortnight has been struck down on appeal by the High Court. ⌘ Read more

Thames Water running out of time to secure rescue as debt swells
As it stands, Thames Water has sufficient cash to make it to the first quarter of next year. ⌘ Read more

Breaking: Rafah crossing will open to let Gazans cross into Egypt
Israeli authorities have announced the Rafah border crossing from Gaza into Egypt will open “in coming days,” but only for Palestinians wanting to leave the war-ravaged strip. ⌘ Read more

Thames Water running out of time to secure rescue as debt swells
As it stands, Thames Water has sufficient cash to make it to the first quarter of next year. ⌘ Read more

Wikipedia’ top 20 articles of 2025 sees Charlie Kirk and Trump head the list
Wikipedia has released its 20 most-read articles on English Wikipedia for the year. ⌘ Read more

Hobart’s Macquarie Point stadium project set to pass Tasmanian parliament
A stadium on Hobart’s waterfront has gained enough support to pass parliament, after key independents declared on Wednesday they would support the contentious project. ⌘ Read more

Footballer and youth worker charged after police drug drop sting
A regional Victorian footballer and youth worker are facing drug trafficking charges after being caught with a package allegedly containing illegal drugs. ⌘ Read more

Woman tells court she witnessed but did not commit brutal murder of 72yo
A woman on trial for the alleged murder of 72-year-old Victorian man John Hunter tells the Supreme Court she was present when he was killed but another person was responsible for his death. ⌘ Read more

First community-designed, culture-first home arrives in Tennant Creek
A one-of-a-kind home, designed with the input of Tennant Creek families, has rolled up the Stuart Highway from Adelaide on a convoy of trucks. It is part of a new initiative aiming to transform housing in remote First Nations communities. ⌘ Read more

Coalition has ‘no confidence’ social media ban will work under Labor
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says Australia’s social media ban will not work under Labor, as the federal government rejects YouTube’s claim it will make kids “less safe”. ⌘ Read more

Study Finds Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells
Bruce66423 shares a report from the Los Angeles Times: Tattoo ink doesn’t just sit inertly in the skin. New research shows it moves rapidly into the lymphatic system, where it can persist for months, kill immune cells, and even disrupt how the body responds to vaccines. Scientists in Switzerland used a mouse model to trace what happens af … ⌘ Read more

Italian luxury giant Prada buys Versace – at a discount
The $1.38bn (£1.04bn) deal between the two Italian fashion giants is well below the roughly $2bn Versace was sold for in 2018. ⌘ Read more

‘Extreme fire danger’ forecast across South Australia for Thursday
The CFS is warning of high fire risk tomorrow with hot and windy conditions forecast, while the BOM has issued a fire weather warning with ‘extreme fire danger’ for parts of the state. ⌘ Read more

Reform politician’s racist Chinese slur ‘caused a lot of hurt’
Members of Wales’ Chinese community say seeing a politician use a racist slur is “very upsetting”. ⌘ Read more

The Papers: ‘No justice’ over Hillsborough and ‘Holly’s guilt over crash’
Wednesday’s front pages focus on the Hillsborough disaster report and the fine given to TV presenter Holly Willoughby for driving without due care. ⌘ Read more

West Bank attacks escalate during olive harvest
Palestinian villagers are living in fear, saying that at any time, armed Israeli settlers could descend on them and cause trouble. ⌘ Read more

A vote to approve an AFL stadium on Hobart’s waterfront will now pass
A stadium on Hobart’s waterfront has gained enough support to pass parliament, after independents Casey Hiscutt, Bec Thomas and Tania Rattray declared they would support the contentious project. ⌘ Read more

Case against Toyah Cordingley’s accused killer ‘makes no sense’, court told
Rajwinder Singh, 41, is accused of the 24-year-old’s 2018 murder. A trial in the Supreme Court in Cairns is entering its final stages. ⌘ Read more

Boat found in search for fisherman missing off Albany
Western Australian authorities search for a man who failed to return from a fishing trip off the Albany coast on Tuesday night. ⌘ Read more

Papenhuyzen unsure if he’ll ever play pro sport again after Storm exit
Former Melbourne fullback Ryan Papenhuyzen says his future is a “blank canvas” ahead of a break from professional sport that he admits could end up being permanent. ⌘ Read more

Brisbane block sizes slashed to 120 square metres under proposed changes
The proposed changes, including to block sizes and car parking requirements, are intended to add an additional 6,000 homes by 2032. ⌘ Read more

GDP figures a beautiful set of numbers with a sting in the tail
Australia’s latest economic growth numbers show an economy in generally rude health, but that might result in a rude shock for mortgage borrowers earlier rather than later in 2026. ⌘ Read more

Higher proportion contacting GPs online than by phone in England
All NHS practices were required by the government to provide web bookings from October. ⌘ Read more

Algal inquiry quizzes health chief about respiratory illness
South Australia’s public health chief says there is a need for more data analysis to determine whether there has been an increase in respiratory illness linked to the state’s algal bloom. ⌘ Read more

Breaking: Two in hospital after shooting in northern NSW
Police have arrested a person after two people were injured during a shooting in northern NSW. ⌘ Read more