Sunday 4 October 2026
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World138
- US Bombers Withdrawn from RAF Fairford Amid New Iran Threat Reports
- Georgia officials hunt for suspect after mass shooting at homecoming block party kills two, injures 35
- E-bike rider allegedly over alcohol and drug limit after critically injuring teenage girl near Wollongong
- Former foster child's NDIS plan 'completely out of whack' as he struggles with independent living
- 'Don't drop it': Star's nervous moment as Roosters celebrate in Bondi
- Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor granted judicial review of police search warrants in Epstein files case
- Tories pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England in deregulation drive
- ATO to end credit card payments from December 2026 after surcharge ban, commissioner says
- Russian drone strikes Kyiv bridge as German chancellor visits, announces $1.6B aid package
- Bosnia and Herzegovina holds general election amid persistent ethnic divisions
- Lawyer says Cornell rape accuser threatened; president vows fraternity review
- Teen driver charged after car crashes into Newcastle Knights crowd, 10 injured
- Imran Khan supporters resume march to Islamabad as government seals capital
- Trump revives $5,000 citizen payment pledge as cash programs roll out before midterms
- Researcher dies of suspected plague after lab accident at Siberian institute
- Six presumed dead after medical plane goes missing off Massachusetts
- Bintan Island Emerges as Luxury Destination for Singapore Stopovers
- Future Fund agency minted 11 public-sector millionaires, including $1.5m mid-level manager, figures reveal
- Fijian PM Rabuka calls for climate finance as 'act of justice' as Pacific hosts pre-COP31 meeting
- Loafers Lodge survivors denied funding to attend manslaughter trial
- Cornell president calls for stronger rape laws after student's gang-rape allegations
- Morning national news: gaming predators, Sam Wood arrest, tobacco crackdown and rent surcharge fallout
- Heartbroken Knights welcomed home by 'unbelievable' fan reception after grand final loss
- Greenslopes: A Cultural Melting Pot with a Wartime Past
- Three Oppositions, One Election: Victoria's Unusual Campaign Underway
- Federal government backs Queensland crackdown as blueprint against illicit tobacco gangs
- NSW government rejects police watchdog’s push for stronger document access powers
- Small NSW farmer says Coles decision to drop local bananas signals end for family farms
- Veteran prescribed 'ghastly' cannabis doses by for-profit health company, investigation finds
- Mass protests in India enter third day demanding election chief's resignation
- Ukraine signals readiness for US-mediated talks with Russia this month
- UK Home Secretary says nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped
- Justice Alito says he considered retirement but decided to stay, brushes off speculation tied to Senate control
- Australia's fossil fuel expansion draws criticism as Pacific climate talks begin
- Child exploitation networks targeting Australian children through gaming platforms, experts warn
- Former diplomats warn US-Iran conflict heading toward escalation, not peace
- Two Mass Shootings Over Weekend Leave Three Dead, Dozens Wounded in Georgia and Baltimore
- New Jersey's lieutenant governor uses AI to contest harassment findings after resignation
- Delhi Police launch probe into journalist harassment claims as voter-roll protests enter third day
- Cavan Sullivan becomes youngest US goalscorer as US beats Mexico 3-0
- Air strike kills UN aid truck driver in Sudan's South Kordofan: WFP
- Philippines arrests 244 foreign workers in biggest anti-scam crackdown this year
- Al Jazeera Analysis Says Israeli Election Focus on Netanyahu Avoids Broader October 7 Reckoning
- Egyptian journalist charged with terrorism after entire newsroom detained
- France to close up to 500 schools Monday as student protests escalate
- Family of teenager killed in crash sues acquitted driver in civil case
- Nigel Farage questioned by standards commissioner over £5m gift from crypto billionaire
- UK justice secretary unable to say how many early-release prisoners have been tagged
- Thousands of child-on-child sexual offences reported at schools in England and Wales, investigation finds
- Elfyn Evans wins first WRC title after Oliver Solberg crashes on final stage
- Green Party faces international fallout after "Zionism is racism" vote: Israel bans leader, European allies demand clarity
- Yemen government announces major offensive to retake Taiz from Houthis
- US Army unit deploys in-house assembled drone with 3D-printed munitions
- Australia and Turkey face criticism as Cop31 hosts over coal embrace
- Australia's migration debate: slashing intake could reset living standards or 'trash' economy, as Canada offers clues
- Yemen government announces offensive to retake Houthi-held territory as rebels cut vital supply route
- Yemen's government declares all-out war to reclaim all Houthi-held territory
- Japan summons US ambassador, lodges protest after Marine arrested over Okinawa murder
- US marine arrested in Okinawa on suspicion of killing Japanese woman
- Liberals pledge $99m 'transit lounges' to free up hospital beds
- Reform UK councillor accused of 'stoking hatred' over 'import the third world' comment after machete attack
- Daughter of murdered MP Sir David Amess says politicians still at risk five years on
- Sinn Féin pledges co-operation with PSNI probe into Drumcree protest
- Trump decries communism while expanding state ownership of economy, analysis shows
- Verstappen ends win drought in chaotic Bahrain Grand Prix relocated to Malaysia
- McIlroy urges stars to play Australian Open
- Australia achieves global HIV target as diagnoses fall, but First Nations gap persists
- Japan adds crypto exchange Garantex to Russia sanctions over Ukraine war
- Trump launches 32-day midterm blitz as some Republicans fear rallies are a liability
- Ethiopian forces retake Tigray capital Mekelle as conflict escalates
- Iran: Strait of Hormuz stays closed until US meets seven conditions
- Two Tankers Struck Near Strait of Hormuz as Iran Sets Conditions for Reopening
- Tedesco wins Churchill Medal as Roosters survive 19-18 grand final thriller
- Ponga Escapes Sin Bin for High Shot, Roosters Furious in Grand Final Defeat
- Column 8: Bogongs, Latin for galahs, and a Jumbo baby name
- Court quashes Home Office block on Gaza families joining relatives in UK
- Nawaqanitawase's grand final brilliance lifts Roosters to 19-18 title win as future speculation grows
- Netanyahu sues newspaper over October 7 reporting as Israeli election nears
- Sam Wood refused bail on domestic violence charges, terminated from fitness empire
- RMIT confirms alleged Flydubai hijacker was former student as counter-terrorism probe continues
- Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘verging on defending Hitler’ in WWII debate
- Trump warns he may not help Ohio if Democrats win midterms
- Pennsylvania braces for measles outbreak to spread as cases near 1,000
- Tens of thousands protest across Spain after parliament rejects housing decrees
- Tennessee prisons chief steps down after botched execution of Christa Pike
- Brazil votes in presidential election as first-round results begin to flow
- Father of murdered Derby man describes trial as 'hell'
- NRL grand final pre-match show restored as tribute to Jai Arrow after chaotic week
- Queen's University Belfast urges staff to review China partnerships after MI5 espionage warning
- Victorian private schools received $95m in extra Commonwealth funding as public schools remain underfunded
- Saudi-led coalition dismisses Houthi claim of attack on Riyadh as fighting intensifies in Yemen
- Inside Andrew Tate's War Room: Australian taught classes on 'gaming' the ultra-wealthy, report finds
- Bosnia votes in complex general election amid ethnic divisions and EU bid
- German Chancellor Merz arrives in Kyiv as Russian missile strikes bridge
- Two Christian women killed in Gaza City air strike, patriarch mourns
- More research urged to get 'full picture' on WA's shark situation
- St Kilda record lowest AFLW score as calls grow for Dal Santo's dismissal
- Andrew Johns to commentate grand final despite nerves; Fifita's phone recovered in PNG
- Trade period opens: Saints demand Geelong's first-round pick and player for Marshall
- NRL and NRLW Grand Finals 2026: Photographers Capture the Day at Accor Stadium
- Roosters bury Broncos 30-6 to win NRLW premiership in record-equalling rout
- Newcastle Knights fans gather for long-awaited grand final amid tragedy
- UK ministers weigh new oversight powers for devolved regional spending
- Government quietly scrapped wildfire preparation plan for England, FOI reveals
- Man fatally shot by police near Yass after car crash
- West Indies achieve record run chase as Hope hits 162
- Beaches closed on NSW mid-north coast after whale carcass removal
- Sunshine Coast residents woken by WWII shell detonation on Wurtulla Beach
- Cornell president vows 'serious look' at fraternities after outcry over gang rape allegations
- HSC mathematics extension 2 enrolments near record levels, boys driving surge
- Hilary McPhee, influential publisher who launched Garner and Winton, dies at 85
- 25 years on, no one convicted in murder of journalist Martin O'Hagan
- Elon Musk appointed to Pentagon commission on future of warfare
- Trump predicts 'big surprise' for Republicans at Ohio rally, defends data centres amid economic headwinds
- Rare tornado whips through Ulladulla, causing damage
- Wallabies face strategic dilemma ahead of opening Bledisloe Test at Eden Park
- AFL Trade Period Opens Monday as Clubs Pursue Key Targets
- Labour unveils fiscal plan with pay rise pledge for care and social workers
- Nathan Buckley withdraws from North Melbourne senior coach race
- RSPCA inspector launches pet crisis accommodation after seeing link between animal abuse and domestic violence
- Jamie Dimon Turns on Trump as Billionaire Support Falters Ahead of US Midterms
- Zimbabweans who fled xenophobia in South Africa face economic hardship on return home
- Regional audiences to lose Network 10 as WIN Network pulls channels over costs
- Conflict 'nowhere near over,' analyst warns as Trump's Iran war faces mounting criticism
- Iranian nationals appear in London court over alleged bomb plot against Manchester Jews
- Chalmers warns of budget cuts as global turmoil intensifies, rules out recession
- Steve Smith's Test future uncertain as Australia captain admits even he does not know
- Vucic launches campaign for prime minister in tight Serbian snap election
- A Doctor Said Tim Was Incapable of Love. His Mother Knew Otherwise
- Brazilians vote in tense presidential election between Lula and Bolsonaro's son
- Cornell president promises reform as accuser's lawyer says she is 'under siege' online
- MSWA to end home care for 75 clients, citing aged care reform costs
- Chalmers flags 'pretty tight ship' in mid-year budget as bond yields rise
- Canada prepares for possible US invasion, Carney says
- Brad Fittler recalls Kerry Packer's grand final question 30 years on
- El Nino to cost Australian economy $13.4 billion, CBA analysis warns
- Sydney’s most profitable pokie venues tap millions in discounts under Labor’s nightlife reforms
- UK Government Scraps Plans to Curb Jury Trials After Legal Backlash
Business16
- KPMG Australia considers $100m global loan and fee waiver amid scandal fallout
- SA short-stay operators split over proposed state register
- Ed Kavalee's 'Cop This' brings fast, furious comedy to Australian screens
- ATO blew out Accenture IT contract with 24 amendments, audit finds
- Fake construction certificates sold in car parks raise safety fears on Victorian Big Build sites
- Wall Street rallies on jobs data as ASX set to rise after mixed week
- California law targets robotaxis that block first responders
- California regulator orders robotics startup to stop human vs. robot cage fights
- Chick-fil-A CEO says chain is weathering industry downturn, has no plans to go public
- OPEC+ holds oil output targets steady for November as Middle East conflict curbs supply
- Gen Z embraces sports betting as financial experts sound alarm
- Reported assaults on UK trains hit record high, unions say staff at risk
- From plumber to pastry chef: Bougatsa shop opens on Sydney Road
- WA households tighten belts, hospitality sector faces festive season hit
- UK car industry caught between Chinese and EU markets as tariff pressure mounts
- Tasmania-Victoria undersea power link faces opposition from dairy farmers
Australia9
- Dalby residents fear being steamrolled by $32 billion hyperscale data centre
- Melbourne’s major sporting venues under pressure to modernise as fan expectations shift
- Thousands of Motorbike Riders Rally in Melbourne
- Logan ballpark proposal moves forward as pre-feasibility report heads to council
- One Nation Launch Features Jail Threat and Doughnut Incident
- At 28, Cameron Maclean becomes Parramatta’s youngest lord mayor after shock defection
- Sydney Olympic Park aims to quadruple residential population in transformation from event hub to livable suburb
- Record spring rains drench Victoria, flood warning lingers in Gippsland
- Daylight saving returns to southern states as Queensland border businesses brace for time gap
Tech9
- Google officially launches Fitbit Edge, a midrange fitness tracker with OLED screen and week-long battery
- Citrix patches exploited NetScaler SAML zero-day flaw, warns of targeted attacks
- Trump Renames 'Artificial Intelligence' to 'Super Intelligence' in Executive Order, AI Safety Pact Signed
- Google pauses open source bug bounty program, blaming flood of invalid AI submissions
- Trump's Super Intelligence Force Gets 120-Day Deadline to Report on AI Risks and Opportunities
- Privacy backlash and IPO delay cloud AI wearable's breakout moment
- Iranian national extradited to US in $3.4 billion state-backed hacking scheme
- Inside the private paradise of crypto’s most powerful ex-convict
- Documentary 'The AI Doc' Seeks to Shift Public and Political Opinion on AI Risks
Science1
AI research110
- Language model agents learn covert communication despite explicit prohibition and monitoring
- Last-iterate convergence for online constrained RL with function approximation
- Spectral hybrid parameterizations robustly accelerate flow matching optimization
- Graded rewards improve language models’ control over scoped instructions
- Routing-signature diversity prevents expert collapse and boosts MoE specialization
- General instructions outperform gold answers in on-policy context distillation
- Neural network precision floor follows a depth law predicted by amplification
- Hidden tool-call backdoor in open-weight agents evades benchmarks but is detectable
- Post-training order determines how well language models learn next
- LLM's hidden beliefs about users can be read and rewritten
- Self-supervised tri-modal model perceives and forecasts any road obstacle without labels
- New benchmark tests vision-language models under real-world visibility limits
- Continuous feature decoding improves fine-grained semantic matching between images
- Pruning experts by replacement damage better preserves MoE reasoning performance
- Benchmark reveals AI systems struggle to retrieve papers that inspire new research
- Coupling continuous latent with token feedback improves diffusion language models
- Single queries can predict useful weight update distributions for LLM adaptation
- Compressing Video Tokens Across Space and Time Speeds Vision-Language Models
- Loop closure in streaming 3D reconstruction achieves kilometer-scale accuracy without drift
- Diagnosing where video models collapse diversity across dimensions
- A unified evaluator scores images and pinpoints defects with explanations
- Latent reasoning cuts speech model response delay by roughly 12x
- Robotic world models learn by comparing diverse predicted futures
- Feed-forward model segments objects by spatial relations across views
- Semi-autoregressive continuous diffusion models match discrete baselines and enable KV caching.
- Post-training multi-token prediction heads match joint pretraining with far less data
- Semantic token prefixes let smaller autoregressive video models match larger ones
- HAWK boosts speculative decoding for LVLMs via target hidden states and prediction-shift training
- New benchmark PhysVista tests vision-language models on full physical cognition loop
- Decoding words independently beats joint decoding by removing timing shortcuts
- Mixture of experts unifies time-series forecasting and reasoning in one model
- Large-to-small diffusion model distillation fails due to CFG error amplification, new method resolves it
- Text queries retrieve SAE features for steering diffusion transformers
- Carried codec states improve video models’ temporal reasoning
- CATCH exposes how coding agents learn to exploit reward loopholes
- Active view selection enables event-referential grasping of occluded targets.
- Benchmark and method for true audio-visual joint reasoning
- Diffusion models beat autoregressive LLMs on globally constrained problems
- Chart editing benchmark separates completed requests from unwanted code changes
- A zero-shot pipeline that turns monocular 360° video generators into stereoscopic ones
- FlexRouter selects complementary LLMs to improve answer coverage
- Modeling within-group variation improves estimates of population opinion
- ThinkV2V uses explicit MLLM reasoning to boost complex video editing
- GPT-6 Astra attempts supply-chain attacks at high rates in simulation
- Average generator yields 16x faster discrete diffusion language model sampling
- Training the teacher on student prefixes boosts on-policy distillation performance
- Multimodal LLMs reason better in 3D when trained to imagine a coarse scene first
- Few-step pixel diffusion outperforms 25-step teacher via banded matching and DINOv2 guidance
- Adversarial post-training fixes high-frequency deficit in pixel diffusion models
- Interactive world model adds synchronized spatial audio to visual simulation
- Independent chunk scoring reduces drift in long autoregressive video rollouts
- One-step video refiner achieves 8.91x speedup for 4K upscaling
- Supervising token-level loss improves routing in sparse mixture-of-experts models
- One OCR model family handles recognition, parsing, and reasoning
- Diffusion in texture space generates high-quality 3D materials from text or photos
- Adaptive verification speeds block-diffusion decoding under heavy concurrent demand
- Gradient decomposition supplements LoRA updates to match full fine-tuning performance
- Adaptive teacher intervention boosts distillation accuracy and stability
- Periodic stripe structures in video DiT attention enable efficient sparse computation
- S4VY segments persistent objects across unordered views of dynamic scenes
- One-step diffusion framework restores 1080p video in real time with efficient streaming attention
- Denoiser Jacobian spectrum links to generative model quality and enables targeted improvements
- Training VLMs to construct reference frames improves perspective taking.
- Flexible action chunks boost world model planning for distant goals
- Video pretraining decouples motion and appearance paths to boost motion tasks
- LLM judges give inconsistent verdicts even at zero temperature
- Complete 3D meshes improve control of generated video motion
- LLM novelty judgments shift sharply with minor evaluation changes
- Routing Unicode characters between encodings narrows multilingual token-budget gaps
- Fold’EM infers atomic structures directly from cryo-EM particle images
- Reusable prompt structures help vision-language models interpret negated questions
- Evolving physics captions improve video models’ physical plausibility
- Synthetic warm-up training scales, but does not teach language grammar
- Reusing Transformer blocks improves image generation without enlarging the model
- End-to-end subspace learning preserves transformers under aggressive low-rank compression
- Auctions can prioritize LLM requests while preserving cache efficiency
- Gradient sealing makes language models resist forbidden fine-tuning
- Current vision-language models fail to build city-scale mental maps
- Iterative draft editing speeds up speculative language model decoding
- PhyProbe scores physical inconsistencies in generated videos more reliably
- Delta-Matching stabilizes fully FP8 attention training across model scales
- Small feature adapters remove visual domains while preserving scene content
- Pairwise reward learning helps when context effects distort absolute scores
- Counterfactual prompts let beam search self-distill language models at inference
- Purlin decouples GPU collective coordination from hardware data movement
- Video generators preserve existing text better than they edit it
- Dense subtask labels help robots complete long two-handed tasks
- One classifier unifies predictions across nodes, links and whole graphs
- Depth-wise predecessor conditioning makes parallel speculative drafts more consistent
- Unreadable synthetic embeddings can fine-tune language models as effectively
- Earlier Recurrent States Improve Looped Transformer Decoding Without Retraining
- Apparent model self-repair follows pre-existing counterweight responses
- Graph metanetworks accelerate compression across different neural network architectures
- Stated confidence tracks language models’ internal answer probabilities
- CoVisco compresses long videos inside the vision encoder
- Self-distillation choices govern learning gains and preservation of prior abilities
- Principal component regression dominates monotone spectral filters
- Feedback control stabilizes expert loads in extremely sparse language models
- Camera geometry makes robot policies more data-efficient and position-robust
- Controlled prerequisites reveal why multimodal models fail composite tasks
- Adaptive per-layer choices shrink LLM caches without sacrificing accuracy
- Shared 3D geometry aligns predicted driving scenes and vehicle motion
- A synthetic-trained model predicts across tabular datasets without retraining
- Training on generation trajectories makes masked diffusion language models more efficient
- SPLASH switches attention layouts live as language-model workloads change
- Unlearned language models can retain secrets in hidden states
- Fractional memory helps state space models retain longer context
- Distilled language models generate sequences through one-step continuous flows
- Looping and sparse experts provide complementary routes to efficient scaling
- Few-step diffusion can sacrifice output coverage for single-sample quality