Thursday 24 September · 535 items from 63 sources
Australia and Queensland
The scarce layer. Thin is accurate, not a defect.
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Attack public servants, then you’ve attacked yourself, says Wood
Productivity Commission boss Danielle Wood said politicians attacking public institutions is ultimately an act of self-harm. The post Attack public servants, then you’ve attacked yourself, says Wood…
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Vocus plans fibre link between Brisbane and Darwin
Second leg of ADIP project.
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iTnews State of Security Breakfast comes to Sydney
Discussing the key trends shaping cyber security.
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ANAO highlights achievements, failures, and budget warnings
ANAO met five of nine performance measures in 2025-26 while completing hundreds of audits and reporting a sharply reduced operating deficit. The post ANAO highlights achievements, failures, and…
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SIEV X still speaks to the Australia we are becoming
OPINION | Good migration management does not require cultural uniformity. A person can retain a language, cultural tradition, or faith and still be fully Australian. The post SIEV X still speaks to…
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Report: Let’s get real about AI – 2026
The post Report: Let’s get real about AI – 2026 appeared first on The Mandarin .
The writers
What it means, and whether the claim survives contact with reality.
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LWiAI Podcast #257 - GPT 6 Astra, AI Extinction, Security Incidents
A belated discussion of Astra’s release, a bunch of AI incidents, and the broader situation we are in with regards to AI safety.
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[AINews] Meta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm
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*Fear of Data*
The author is Omri Ben-Shahar, and the subtitle is How Privacy Panic Led Tech Regulation Astray — and How to Fix It. I would describe this book as bracing, and full of substantive engagement.…
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My economics-rich Conversation with Gita Gopinath
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Gita Gopinath has spent the last several years inside the room where the world’s monetary plumbing gets fixed — or doesn’t. As…
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Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later
A guest post by Lars Doucet
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From the Master of Industrial Organization
Believing that AI will be incorrigible leads us to proposing the wrong solutions, including ones which are likely to increase the danger than decrease it. I think that an AI pause is using the wrong…
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Optimal liability for offensive and defensive AI
How much liability should AI providers bear when their services enable both attack and defence? Liability can improve welfare while increasing harm. Providers sell a common input to productive…
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Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts . They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus…
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Shadow roots, explained with live examples
Tool: Shadow roots, explained with live examples Prompt to Fable 5.1 Medium: Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interactive examples Tags: css
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Will TypeSafe’s Jev Change How We Build AI Applications?
The following article originally appeared on Arize’s blog and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. This week the AI community was in uproar about Jev from TypeSafe, not just a new…
Frontier
What actually shipped.
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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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Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.
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Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics
Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency,…
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Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
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Sakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale
When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. “Validation engineers look in the…
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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.
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Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses AI safety, human control, and international cooperation in remarks to the United Nations Security Council.
Governance
Regulators, standards, security.
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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.
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Data Union Conference
Data Union Conference Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 09/18/2026 - 09:43 12 January 2027 Charlemagne building, Brussels, Belgium Bringing policymakers, businesses, experts and researchers together to…
Adoption
What organisations are doing, with money attached.
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Panda Mart stung with $80,000 fine for selling lamps posing electrical shock risk
Panda Mart, which operates two warehouse-style retail stores in Melbourne and one in Brisbane, pleaded guilty to 15 charges. The post Panda Mart stung with $80,000 fine for selling lamps posing…
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Bringing iced coffee in a job interview? The debate is more than TikTok froth
A US recruiter's plea for Gen Z applicants not to bring iced coffee to their job interviews shows changing workplace dynamics. The post Bringing iced coffee in a job interview? The debate is more…
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Why overseas buyers are circling Australia’s specialist SMEs
Global buyers are snapping up Australian SMEs across infrastructure, defence and energy, chasing specialist skills, established relationships and a growing pipeline of projects and investment. The…
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Westpac cuts merchant fees in the race to October 1 surcharge ban
Westpac has announced its flat transaction rate will fall from 1.20% to 0.79% for payments made via its point-of-sale terminals. The post Westpac cuts merchant fees in the race to October 1…
Research
Titles only, for scanning.
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The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities
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Silent Failures in Agent-Tool Interaction: An Audit of ToolUniverse
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Harness as a Language: A Minimalist Agent Framework With Maximal Expressivity
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TwinCheck: Evidence-Grounded Negative-Twin Verification for Stateful Tool Agents
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Building Socio-Affective Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Multi-Agent Simulations
Build
For the making side.
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Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1wotwrk/meta_takes_down_a_critical_video_about_meta_ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49827794 Points: 64 # Comments: 22
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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Article URL: https://transluce.org/agent-activity Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826565 Points: 110 # Comments: 69
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Contrastive Language Models
Article URL: https://contrastive-lm.notion.site/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826221 Points: 61 # Comments: 14
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Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1095425/2d9f411252325784/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825642 Points: 121 # Comments: 84
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OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgl73pxgndwt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825580 Points: 49 # Comments: 6
Press
Last, deliberately. It reports what the layers above have usually already explained.
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Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse
CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI…
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Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent
The tiny hardware device creates another mobile home for its AI agent Muse.
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Meta is trying VR glasses (again), this time with more IMAX
Meta's return to the VR glasses realm comes with a promising combination of light weight form factor and enhanced entertainment options.
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Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses
Meta says the camera-free glasses will be lighter and have up to 12 hours battery life.
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Vogue sent robots down the runway at Vogue World, and people were not impressed
Nothing says Italian craftsmanship like a Chinese robot doing a lasso to "L'Amour Toujours."
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Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.
Open
The sources that refuse ingestion, one tap away.