Monday 28 September · 492 items from 63 sources
Australia and Queensland
The scarce layer. Thin is accurate, not a defect.
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Postal voting a growing battle for electoral commission
Postal votes are getting slower and more expensive, according to the Australian Electoral Commission. The post Postal voting a growing battle for electoral commission appeared first on The Mandarin .
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Downer invests in security as contracts increasingly demand it
Turns up application control, limits privilege.
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Government warned months ahead of Medicare data breach
A former Data61 senior programmer warned ministers in April that sloppy record-keeping would lead to a breach. The post Government warned months ahead of Medicare data breach appeared first on The…
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Want to know what is government information? There’s an icon for that
Australian agencies have been told to roll out a universal symbol on their websites to help people identify what online content is government information. The post Want to know what is government…
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Securing information integrity and the public interest in a world of fake news
OPINION | The responsiveness of governments globally to the threat to information integrity may be a litmus test of democracy itself. The post Securing information integrity and the public interest…
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Teen researcher with AI hackbot cracks Microsoft's Titan analytics
Ten-day automated hunt stalled until "admin" login tried.
The writers
What it means, and whether the claim survives contact with reality.
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AI in science
Scientific progress is a key driver of economic growth and prosperity. There is great excitement- but also concerns- about the impacts of AI on science, but so far little data. We provide early…
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Sunday assorted links
1. AI-related efforts in higher education in Morocco (ChatGPT). 2. Intelligence explosions are social. 3. The speech-processing skills of dogs. 4. Kalshi market in economics Nobel. 5. Why are Indian…
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Earth fact of the day, #2
The shortages have gone on for so long that they are aggressively driving down how much carbon is being released into the atmosphere, a Washington Post analysis of data from the International Energy…
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The Federal Lands: An Economic Property Rights Perspective
The US federal government owns and administers 472,892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower 48 states, the country’s largest landowner. The resource is held and managed as a collective…
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🔮 The pros and cons of collective AI #603
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Kākāpō Party
Tool: Kākāpō Party I presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday. As a STAR moment I decided to weave in references to the record breaking kākāpō…
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What should I ask Terence Tao?
Yes, I will be doing a Conversation with him. And he has a new book coming out Six Math Essentials. So what should I ask him? The post What should I ask Terence Tao? appeared first on Marginal…
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Saturday assorted links
1. One way to use screens less, will it catch on? 2. Roon as cultural critic. 3. The Greenland deal sounds pretty good for America? 4. The cultures that are New England? 5. Yet newer results on…
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Should you text more?
Here, in five waves of panel data (N = 1,966 US adults), we examined associations between life satisfaction and self-reported use of ten common social technologies measured every 3 months on a…
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🔮 Safety in numbness
Frontier
What actually shipped.
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Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.
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Automating coherent long-form video generation
Generative AI
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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
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How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic
When COVID-19 emerged, scientists had a crucial advantage: Decades of prior research on coronaviruses meant they understood the virus’ key proteins well enough to design vaccines in record time. The…
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Contain the Chaos: ‘CONTROL Resonant’ Launches on GeForce NOW
A warped Manhattan is waiting in the cloud this week. Remedy Entertainment’s CONTROL Resonant brings Dylan Faden’s extraordinary abilities and a paranatural crisis to GeForce NOW at launch. With the…
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Two years of OpenAI Academy
Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.
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OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense
OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.
Governance
Regulators, standards, security.
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Digital devolution: what’s been happening and what’s coming up?
Explore how we're working with local government to build capability and support innovation.
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NIST Awards More Than $1.7 Million to Support Cybersecurity Workforce Development Across 8 States
Projects will address local cybersecurity workforce needs and will offer practical learning opportunities including internships, apprenticeships and hands-on projects.
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NIST Awards More Than $30 Million for MEP Centers in 11 States and Puerto Rico
The awards will help small and medium-sized manufacturers increase the adoption of advanced manufacturing technology.
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NIST Finalizes Guidelines on Protecting Online Identity and Access Tokens From Misuse
The finalized publication is designed to help organizations take effective steps to avoid exposing tokens to attackers.
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NIST-Developed Quantum Sensors Improve Nuclear Monitoring
New X-ray measurements will allow scientists to more accurately monitor nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities.
Adoption
What organisations are doing, with money attached.
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The Laundry Lady launches new digital app as it gears up for UK launch
The Laundry Lady unveiled its new customer-facing app this month, creating a faster way for clients to book and manage their laundry. The post The Laundry Lady launches new digital app as it gears…
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Bluesfest touring arm enters liquidation six months after festival collapse
Bluesfest Tours booked artists for the festival as well as other gigs, with acts including Erykah Badu and The Wailers secured for Australian dates. The post Bluesfest touring arm enters liquidation…
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Meta debuts camera-free smart glasses amid privacy fears
The camera-less AI glasses follow local and international concerns about wearers misusing wearable devices to film bystanders without their consent. The post Meta debuts camera-free smart glasses…
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“We’re losing customers”: Footscray traders say street disorder is hurting business
Footscray traders say customers are being intimidated away from the retail centre, as drug use, disorder and fears of violence take a toll. The post “We’re losing customers”: Footscray traders say…
Research
Titles only, for scanning.
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MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?
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Quantum computing’s “dark horse” just proved it can go universal
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Briefing Chat: Why scientists made papyrus scrolls, then burnt them
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Why science wouldn’t exist without alchemy, curiosity and great writing: Books in brief
Build
For the making side.
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Lunar Terminator Paradox
Article URL: https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/09/27_lunar-terminator-paradox.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870837 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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Allegations of US interference in Quebec election
Article URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/12073854/quebec-election-u-s-interference/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870417 Points: 20 # Comments: 9
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When did Google get so weird?
Article URL: https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870367 Points: 174 # Comments: 88
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Alan Kay's answer to "Did the ENIAC have a BIOS"?
Article URL: https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870070 Points: 28 # Comments: 14
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Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM
https://hex.pm/packages/imp https://dspy.ai/current/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869995 Points: 18 # Comments: 4
Press
Last, deliberately. It reports what the layers above have usually already explained.
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Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump
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Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
On Equity, we discussed how Meta's AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment
"AI is the devil and I its maker."
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TechCrunch Mobility: AV companies pick their lanes
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
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Sennheiser Momentum 5 review: Great sound, incredible battery life, and few compromises
I spent the last few weeks with the Sennheiser Momentum 5 to determine if this pair actually stands out, testing everything from sound quality and noise cancellation to comfort and battery life.
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Poetry for Engineers: The UI Designer’s Dream
My job is to translate dry and unrelenting code into a user interface of surpassing beauty. With my mouse, I roll one pixel after another up the vast anthill of the internet. My dream is to…
Open
The sources that refuse ingestion, one tap away.