Michael and Susan Dell Donate $6.25 Billion To Encourage Families To Claim ‘Trump Accounts’
Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion to boost participation in the new “Trump Accounts” child investment program. “The historic gift has little precedent, with few single charitable commitments in the past 25 years exceeding $1 billion, much less multiple billions,” notes the Associate … ⌘ Read more

Israel wants new buffer zone between Syrian areas it occupies and Damascus
Benjamin Netanyahu is demanding Syria establish a “demilitarised zone” between the border with the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and capital Damascus, as part of any possible peace deal with the new Syrian government. ⌘ Read more

Proton therapy cancer unit debacle leads to $US32m lawsuit
Seven years ago, cancer patients forced to travel overseas for proton therapy were promised an Australian-based service — but the project collapsed last year and is now at the centre of a multi-million-dollar lawsuit. ⌘ Read more

Cyber shoplifters costing retailers thousands in ‘friendly fraud’
Frustrated retailers grappling with online shoplifters are calling for better protections from banks, payment providers and regulators. ⌘ Read more

New NAPLAN results released as parents warned against raw comparisons
Parents can check the latest NAPLAN scores for 10,000 schools across the country on the MySchool website. ⌘ Read more

‘We will never get justice,’ say Hillsborough families as report finds fundamental police failures
A report finds 12 ex-police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over the disaster under today’s laws. ⌘ Read more

Quarter of police forces lack basic policies on sexual offences, Sarah Everard inquiry finds
The report, four years after the 33-year-old’s murder, says urgent action is needed to prevent violent, sexual attacks against women. ⌘ Read more

‘We will never get justice,’ say Hillsborough families as report finds fundamental police failures
A report finds 12 ex-police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over the disaster under today’s laws. ⌘ Read more

Why a veteran Tasmanian farmer and his family listen to Country Hour
With the ABC’s Country Hour celebrating eight decades on air, a 91-year-old Tasmanian farmer and his successor reflect on why they’ve been tuning in most days. ⌘ Read more

How a gas cloud killed thousands in world’s worst industrial disaster
It started with a cloud of gas in the dead of night, silently submerging the city in a toxic soup. By morning on December 3, 1984, an Indian city awoke to a nightmare. ⌘ Read more

Can you guess how far it is to these Australian islands? Harder than you think
Do you know how far away Heard Island is? What about Christmas Island? Try your hand at today’s quiz. ⌘ Read more

Sabrina Carpenter and Franklin the Turtle in tiff with Trump administration over use of work
Trump administration officials used Carpenter’s song and Franklin the Turtle’s image in social media posts about deportation and killing drug traffickers. ⌘ Read more

Google’s Vibe Coding Platform Deletes Entire Drive
A Google Antigravity user says the AI-driven “vibe coding” tool accidentally wiped his entire D: drive while trying to clear a project cache. Google says it’s investigating, but the episode adds to a growing list of AI tools behaving in ways that “would get a junior developer fired,” suggests The Register. From the report: We reached out to the user, a photographer and g … ⌘ Read more

Search for British hiker who went missing in Romanian mountains
George Smyth’s mother says “the thought of life without him is unbearable”. ⌘ Read more

UK MPs launch inquiry into Crown Estate after Andrew revelations
MPs in the United Kingdom will investigate the Crown Estate, after revelations Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — Queen Elizabeth II’s second son — had not paid rent for two decades sparked outrage. ⌘ Read more

Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real
The famous double-slit experiment brings into question the very nature of matter. Its cousin, the quantum eraser experiment, makes us question the very existence of time – and how much we can manipulate it ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.19 Merges “klp-build” As New Livepatch Module Generation Solution
Merged as part of the objtool changes for the Linux 6.19 kernel is introducing the “klp-build” script as a new solution to generate livepatch modules using a source .patch file as the input. This klp-build effort was spearheaded by Josh Poimboeuf with ideas learned from the out-of-tree Kpatch project over the past decade… ⌘ Read more

TornadoVM 2.0 Released For Java On NVIDIA PTX, OpenCL & SPIR-V Devices
TornadoVM 2.0 is out today as the newest feature release for this OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that allows Java programs to run on heterogeneous hardware. TornadoVM targets continue to be OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and SPIR-V compatible devices for a range of accelerator support for use from conventional Java code… ⌘ Read more

‘We will never get justice,’ say Hillsborough families as report finds fundamental police failures
A report finds 12 ex-police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over the disaster under today’s laws. ⌘ Read more

Zillow Drops Climate Risk Scores After Agents Complained of Lost Sales
Zillow has removed climate risk scores from over a million home listings after real estate agents argued the data was scaring off buyers. TechCrunch reports: Zillow first added the data to the site in September 2024, saying that more than 80% of buyers consider climate risks when purchasing a new home. But last month, following object … ⌘ Read more

‘Big Brother cannot watch us’: Indian government phone app plan sparks outrage
New Delhi wants a government app installed on all of the country’s mobile phones, but opposition MPs and privacy advocates have voiced concerns about surveillance. ⌘ Read more

When my AI-powered IDE starts running delete commands in production ⌘ Read more

Trump Administration To Take Equity Stake In Former Intel CEO’s Chip Startup
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million into a startup (source paywalled; alternative source) trying to develop more advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques in the U.S., its latest bid to support strategically important domesti … ⌘ Read more

Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe
Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the foundations of how we think about space and time ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: From Prototype to Production: Scaling Fintech for SMEs
The moment a fintech product shifts from prototype to production is often when the cracks appear. Tiny shortcuts. Half-formed assumptions. Decisions made because “we’ll fix it later.” They all return, and they return quickly.

At first, everything looks fine. The demo works. Early users onboard without trouble. In turn, confidence builds. Then real volume arrives with real expectations, and the product t … ⌘ Read more

Steam On Linux Hits An All-Time High In November
Steam’s November 2025 survey shows Linux gaming climbed to its highest share in a decade “thanks to the success of the Steam Deck, the underlying Steam Play (Proton) software, and now further excitement thanks to the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame,” writes Phoronix’s Michael Larabel. From the report: A decade ago in the early Steam days the initial use was around 3% an … ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.19 To Allow File-Systems To Increase The Writeback Chunk Size
Linux has maintained a default 4MB minimum writeback chunk size but with the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel it will allow file-systems to override that minimum value. This in turn can help avoid fragmentation and yield a better experience for zoned rotation media and other uses… ⌘ Read more

Imran Khan alive but suffering psychologically, his sister says
The imprisoned former Pakistani prime minister was visited by one of his sisters for the first time in weeks, providing an update on his health after rumours swirled about his wellbeing. ⌘ Read more

Supreme Court Hears Copyright Battle Over Online Music Piracy
The Supreme Court appears inclined to side with Cox Communications in a major copyright case, suggesting that ISPs shouldn’t be held liable for users’ music piracy based solely on “mere knowledge,” given the risk of forcing outages for universities, hospitals, and other large customers. The New York Times reports: Leading music labels and publishers who … ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA 590.44.01 Beta Linux Driver Released With Wayland Improvements
NVIDIA today released the 590.44.01 Linux driver build as the first beta of their R590 series driver branch for Linux customers… ⌘ Read more

Prada buys fashion rival Versace in $2.2bn deal
The move is expected to revive Versace’s fortunes, after middling post-pandemic performance as part of the US luxury group Capri Holdings. ⌘ Read more

Japan and China trade accusations after coast guard incident in disputed waters
Tokyo and Beijing have given different accounts of the clash as relations between the two countries continue to sour following comments made by Japan’s prime minister about Taiwan. ⌘ Read more

Canonical Now Offering Ubuntu Pro For WSL
Evidently Canonical has been pretty pleased with the uptake of Ubuntu on Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) within enterprise/corporate environments as they are now offering Ubuntu Pro for WSL… ⌘ Read more

Putin claims Russia has captured key city of Pokrovsk after bloody battle
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says his country’s troops have captured the city of Pokrovsk, in eastern Ukraine, in what would represent an important operation win after an almost 18-month siege. ⌘ Read more

An Independent Effort Says AI Is the Secret To Topple 2-Party Power In Congress
Tony Isaac quotes a report from NPR: The rise of AI assistants is rewriting the rhythms of everyday life: People are feeding their blood test results into chatbots, turning to ChatGPT for advice on their love lives and leaning on AI for everything from planning trips to finishing homework assignments. Now, one or … ⌘ Read more

Suppression order lifted on High Country killer’s past police run-ins
Victoria’s Supreme Court lifts a suppression order that prohibited reporting on convicted murderer Greg Lynn’s past interactions with police and the death of his first wife. ⌘ Read more

After years of silence, Greg Lynn’s former in-laws detail a dark past
Decades before Greg Lynn was convicted of murdering an elderly camper in Victoria’s High Country, he subjected his first wife to abuse and death threats as their marriage deteriorated, an ABC investigation has revealed. ⌘ Read more

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openSUSE Begins Rolling Out Intel NPU Support
Via the openSUSE Innovator Initiative, packaging of the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver for the openSUSE ecosystem has begun. This is helping to jump-start the Intel NPU support within the openSUSE space although user-space applications ready to leverage the Intel NPU still remains very limited… ⌘ Read more

Optimized NUMA Distances For Intel GNR & CWF, Other Scheduler Improvements In Linux 6.19
The big set of kernel scheduler changes were merged on Monday for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel… ⌘ Read more

Lemon8 and Yope put on notice as social media age ban targets
Social media platforms Lemon8 and Yope are put on notice about age limit laws as both apps surge in popularity ahead of a ban for under 16s. ⌘ Read more

Kernel Credential Guards Merged For Linux 6.19
Merged yesterday for the Linux 6.19 kernel were “substantial” improvements to the kernel’s credential infrastructure to provide guard-based management that allows for kernel code simplification and avoiding manual reference counting across many subsystems… ⌘ Read more

When I find out the bug comes from a piece of code I never suspected at all ⌘ Read more

Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it
We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start life, and researchers have just found the missing ingredient: sugar ⌘ Read more

Russia Still Using Black Market Starlink Terminals On Its Drones
schwit1 shares a report from Behind The Black: In its war with the Ukraine, it appears Russia is still managing to obtain black market Starlink mini-terminals for use on its drones, despite an effort since 2024 to block access. [Imagery from eastern Ukraine shows a Russian Molniya-type drone outfitted with a mini-Starlink terminal, reinforcin … ⌘ Read more

WA electoral commissioner resigns, months after problem plagued election
Robert Kennedy tends his resignation as WA electoral commissioner, nine months after a state election that was plagued by issues including long wait times to vote, and polling booths running out of ballot papers. ⌘ Read more

Tasmanian politicians under ‘intense pressure’ as answer on stadium looms
State politicians face a looming debate in parliament’s upper house, which will finally decide whether a stadium is built at Hobart’s Macquarie Point and whether Tasmania gets an AFL side. ⌘ Read more

ACT public servants legally required to uphold ‘Closing the Gap principle’
Senior ACT public servants will soon be required to demonstrate their work towards ending the inequality experienced by First Nations people. ⌘ Read more

Six prisoners left in NT police cells after ombudsman’s report
Days after acting Northern Territory Ombudsman Bronwyn Haack raised the alarm about “inhumane” conditions in overcrowded police cells, the government says just six inmates remain. ⌘ Read more

Person found dead after fire engulfs home to Brisbane’s south
Police say two people were able to escape the fire and forensic investigations into the deceased person’s identity are underway. ⌘ Read more