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Australis13

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  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • Frustratingly this is not just affecting the current generation of devices, but the previous one too. DDR4 RAM (which I use in my desktop) has gone up 300% since I bought it a few years ago.

    Here's hoping that nobody needs to replace current or previous gen hardware if it breaks in the next 2 years...

  • Microsoft Finds “Summarize with AI” Prompts Manipulating Chatbot Recommendations

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  • Seriously? This is a painfully obvious prompt injection vulnerability (reminds me of SQL injection, actually). If you're offering a "summarise with AI" functionality, then you should be sanitising the inputs properly. It should be a simple call to the API to tell it to summarise a dataset or particular webpage -- not provide a query string.

  • Heathrow isn’t crowded, it’s travellers walking on the wrong side, boss says

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  • OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’

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  • It's worse than smoking or other addictive drugs, though, because this is exploiting humanity's fundamental need for connection. People are lonely and today's chatbots provides a poor but "good enough" substitute for human connection to trick the brain. Personally I think these companies have a lot to answer for ethically for creating (and then taking away) a product that deliberately exploits a core need, particularly for people who struggle to make connections in the real world.

  • Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead

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  • So basically the consumer market is screwed until the AI bubble bursts and manufacturers (GPUs, RAM, HDDs, etc.) can rebalance their production lines back to the pre-AI division of enterprise vs consumer product.

  • Heathrow isn’t crowded, it’s travellers walking on the wrong side, boss says

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  • So why not implement signage?

    Shared paths (pedestrians and bicycles) have clear directional markings here, which I expect would solve most of the problem.

  • FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot

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  • Always find like 10 toys under there

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  • I ended up using a door snake to block off the TV cabinet, but don't have a solution for the other spaces either!

  • Always find like 10 toys under there

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  • Behind the couch, behind the TV, under the stairs... If there's a small, hard-to-get-to space, I guarantee the cat toys will end up there. Especially if they're ping-pong balls (which mine love to chase and bat around).

  • Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.

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  • Rather impressive how quickly the hackers reverse-engineered Microsoft's patch and used the vulnerability whilst the opportunity was still available:

    The threat group, tracked under names including APT28, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Forest Blizzard, and Sofacy, pounced on the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, less than 48 hours after Microsoft released an urgent, unscheduled security update late last month, the researchers said. After reverse-engineering the patch, group members wrote an advanced exploit that installed one of two never-before-seen backdoor implants.

  • Update on Bonnie after parvo ; she is doing great and now has found an adopter in Switzerland!

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  • Fantastic news! Hopefully she has a wonderful, long life in her new forever home.

  • Feral cat decides to stay (story inside)

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  • He definitely has a cat now.

  • Five-Alarm Fire Warning After Trump Says 'Republicans Ought to Nationalize the Voting'

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  • Legally, Constitutionally, Trump can't do this. Just like he technically can't serve a third term.

    But unless Americans safeguard their elections, he's definitely going to try. He's been flagging that he will interfere in the 2026 midterms for years now. Remember when he said that people wouldn't have to vote again if they elected him in 2024?

  • Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

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  • Oof. Kudos to Notepad++ for being up front with the details.

  • Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services

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  • Bit late to the party, but good to see another country waking up to the realisation that the US cannot be trusted. Now if only my own country would realise that...

  • Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it

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  • I think the article's subtitle is spot on:

    The finance industry is afraid of Elon Musk, Grok edition

    The payment processors' fear of legal action and financial impact outweighs what little morality they have.

    The Center for Countering Digital Hate found 101 sexualized images of children as part of its sample of 20,000 images made by Grok from December 29th to January 8th. Using that sample, the group estimated that 23,000 sexualized images of children had been produced in that time frame. Over that 11-day period, they estimated that on average, a sexualized image of a child was produced every 41 seconds. In the past, payment providers have been aggressive about cutting access to websites thought to have a significant presence of CSAM — or even legal, consensually produced sexual content... So why is X different? It’s run by Elon Musk. “He’s the richest man in the world, he has close ties to the US government, and he’s incredibly litigious,” says Pfefferkorn. In fact, Musk has previously filed suit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate; in a now-dismissed lawsuit, he claimed it illegally collected data showing an increase in hate speech after he bought the platform formerly known as Twitter.

  • it's a simple question

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  • I have it running with Wine on LMDE6. Only thing that doesn't render properly are the individual document minimise/maximise/close buttons.

  • Trump and JD Vance Send Out Another Bogus Check Email

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  • This is almost straight out of the catfishing/pig-butchering scam playbook, except Trump and Vance aren't pretending to be anyone else...

  • Trump’s ICE crackdown faces reckoning as outrage mounts over Alex Pretti shooting

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  • Ooh, "may finally be reaching a reckoning"... Wake me when they finally face consequences. My money's on a staged withdrawal from Minneapolis and then a rinse-and-repeat in another city as soon as the media has moved on.

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    Australia Post halts most parcel postage to US immediately

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-08-26/australia-post-commercial-shipping-suspension-us-tariffs/105696336
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    Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as global carriers face 'chaos'

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-08-21/australia-post-suspends-transit-shipping-parcels-us-trump-tariff/105680456
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    Weird Secure Boot Issue on Surface Pro 3 (might be related to keyboard cover)

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    America's economic and political chaos has implications for Australia: The United States has proven itself an incomprehensible and unreliable ally

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-06-09/donald-trump-elon-musk-australia-defence-security-alliance/105391190
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    America is on the verge of something fateful, but it cannot escape history

    www.abc.net.au /news/2024-09-15/us-election-america-cant-escape-its-history/104305618