Monday 12 October 2026
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World159
- Lansing police solve 17-year-old murder cold case with buried shotgun
- NT Police link Katherine car thefts to social media rivalry among children as young as 11
- NSW Health warns of bat lyssavirus risk after 43 people bitten or scratched in two weeks
- FIFA president Infantino accused of 'clear violation' over undisclosed World Cup pay
- Urgent recall issued for 13 immune supplements containing andrographis after fatal reaction
- Britain offers to host seven-nation push to curb antisemitic violence, Australia urged to back plan
- Two Boys Killed in Los Angeles Shooting; Father in Custody, Police Say
- Trump insists energy ceasefire holds as Ukraine reports Russian strikes and Moscow rejects pause
- Conflict and drought heighten famine risk across Sudan's Darfur and Kordofan: IPC
- Carney pleads for Canadian unity as Alberta prepares to vote on secession
- Cornell president says university 'must do better' as gang rape lawsuit reignites fraternity culture debate
- Bolivia opens investigation into Evo Morales over 2009 killings of European citizens
- Cuba accelerates renewable energy push as US blockade deepens fuel crisis
- Sinn Féin ministers survive no-confidence votes at Stormont
- Stellantis and Renault urge EU to treat UK as member state under 'Made in Europe' car rules; EU caps Chinese hybrid imports
- Home Office shelved post-Southport violence plans over cost, inquiry told
- Archbishop condemns Pentagon's plan to livestream Firing Squad Execution
- Modi calls India 'mother of democracy' as court takes up voter list challenge
- Houthis attack Riyadh airport for third day as Saudi Arabia probes defence failure and Trump calls rebels 'misbehaving'
- eSafety says it cannot proactively block execution livestream, will monitor platforms
- RJ Mitte, 'Breaking Bad' actor, dies at 34
- NATO commander vows to destroy 'anything and everything' if alliance is attacked
- Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte's death confirmed as suicide, aged 34
- About 70 runners evacuated after flooding strands Utah ultramarathon
- Shot in the head on Slow Horses, Olivia Cooke could not stay away
- Platform lengths rule out longer trains on Sydney metro's final stage
- Motorcyclist critically injured in Te Puke Highway crash
- Rescuers free trapped caver after 26-hour ordeal on Sardinia
- Queenstown fast-track housing plan sparks clash between local leaders and election candidates
- Māngere's low voter turnout examined by RNZ
- Kinnock claims Burnham will take UK back into EU as PM faces pressure over Brexit reset
- Selma Blair taken into custody over alleged attack on flight attendants at JFK
- Public inquiry ordered into deaths at Manchester synagogue attack
- Burnham Russia claims fuel Labour Brexit row as Khan, Thornberry push rejoin case
- South Korean clinic cancels Sydney event amid warnings on overseas face lifts
- King Island school lands $5m upgrade from tungsten mine windfall
- UK expands police protection to former MPs and party spokespeople after Widdecombe murder
- Egypt's press union chief defiant in defence of six detained journalists
- Mamdani orders first NYPD use-of-force review in a decade, announces reforms
- Australian engineer freed from Baghdad jail lands in Dublin after five-year ordeal
- Smart glasses 'life-changing' for disabled Australians as Greens push import ban
- Loophole lets coal and gas mines expand without stricter climate laws, Climate Council warns
- Ethiopian forces enter strategic Tigray town of Adwa as TPLF withdraws
- Emergency doctors warn of ‘terrifying’ crisis as report projects 411 per cent surge in patients aged 85 and over by 2050
- Six-year-old boy died after van struck him while he played on bike, inquest hears
- Hurricane Isaias kills four, leaves 650,000 without power in Florida
- Democrats bet on Marine veteran to flip Arizona swing seat in US House race
- Burnham sets out EU summit agenda, warns 'Made in Europe' plans threaten UK manufacturing
- ICJ Rohingya genocide ruling expected as OIC ministers prepare Baghdad meeting
- French school shooting: 14-year-old held after principal and teacher wounded in Aubagne
- Deadly air strike on Sudanese gold mine lays bare Egypt-Sudan border insecurity
- Elon Musk becomes largest known midterm donor with $276 million in new Republican contributions
- IEA warns of 'largest energy security threat' as Hormuz disruption enters eighth month
- Indian opposition leaders march to Supreme Court demanding election chief resign over alleged voter fraud
- King, Queen and Prince William to mark 60th anniversary of Aberfan disaster
- Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of soldiers interviewed in Gaza documentary
- Fugitive businessman in US custody over Venezuela bribery scheme
- Farage adviser ran key operations at polling firm without public role, sources say
- Teenager killed, dozens injured in northern Israel explosion
- UK blames Iran for RAF Fairford plot, sanctions two Iranians as 29 countries condemn Tehran
- More part-time bosses and co-CEOs could narrow Australia's gender pay gap, agency says
- Bergs stuns Alcaraz in Shanghai, Zverev clinches year-end No. 1 ranking
- Rescued NSW freshwater turtles return to Gingham water hole after environmental flows were cut
- Details emerge in alleged stabbing murder of Sydney father
- Student lay in wait, stabbed housemate 30 times before faking discovery, Bristol court told
- Amelia Earhart expedition nears Pacific atoll in search of vanished Electra
- Fire destroys Paris's oldest food market, Marché des Enfants Rouges
- Germany's labour minister Bärbel Bas quits, citing attacks during her bereavement
- US detains Colombian man accused in multi-billion dollar Venezuelan money laundering scheme
- Australia weighs blocking US execution livestream amid warning of diplomatic fight
- South Africa's Deputy Police Chief Resigns at Disciplinary Hearing, Branded Dishonourable Discharge
- Rent-tech platforms sidestep card surcharge ban with new fees and paid memberships
- Reform UK unveils five-year asylum ban and million-person deportation plan
- Ukrainian drone strikes cripple Yandex data centers, knocking cloud and payments offline
- Iran names US-assisted Gulf oil shuttle an explicit target in Strait of Hormuz standoff
- Australian democracy campaigner spends 51st birthday alone in Vietnamese detention, wife pleads for release
- ICE operation arrests more than 1,000 in Georgia county that could decide Senate control
- BBC defends editing out trans rights slogan on Strictly contestant's T-shirt
- Immigration crackdown reshapes US midterm races as Republicans break with Trump
- Most SAS personnel refuse to answer questions at Afghanistan killings inquiry, judge says
- Yemeni anti-Houthi forces cut key road near Bab al-Mandeb in major offensive
- New documentary follows Gaza journalist through first total clearance of Gaza City
- New poll puts Spain's hard right within reach of government as Vox support doubles
- Azerbaijan school hijab ban sparks protests and social media campaign
- Trump says Ukraine needs a new president as Zaluzhnyi emerges as likely rival
- Federal agents raid Ilhan Omar's home; Democrats decry 'rogue abuse of power' as Trump denies involvement
- Pakistan invokes twin constitutional articles to take control of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Gaza mothers queue for hours for a single meal as famine fears persist
- BBC finds Kenya police killed mourners at Odinga farewell who were not involved in clashes
- Polish police arrest man in 'deadly serious' assassination plot against PM Tusk
- Man denies racially aggravated murder of Dundee scientist, trial set for 2028
- Readers test AI with absurd questions in latest Column 8
- Lawsuit threat reignites row over Chagall ceiling at Paris opera house
- French centre-left selects Raphaël Glucksmann as presidential candidate to counter far right
- Uyghur Militia Commander in Syria Recalls Deadly 2009 Factory Brawl That Led Him to War
- Two-thirds of Americans oppose local data centers as midterms approach, polls find
- Trump defends Russian diesel deal as analysts forecast minimal price relief
- Zelenskyy vows retaliation as Russia strikes six energy sites after Trump ceasefire claim
- UK freezes £8.9m London penthouse of alleged scam empire finance chief
- Fifpro report finds women's football boom leaving players behind on low pay and mental health support
- Israeli 'Yellow Line' expands in Gaza, squeezing Palestinians into smaller territory
- EU and China strike four-year deal to cap Chinese hybrid car imports
- Student arrested after principal and teacher shot at French school
- Tiana Mangakahia remembered a year on from her death, family rallies in her honour
- Age Good Food Guide releases annual hats list for Victorian restaurants
- Smith’s ‘freakish display’ in Durban puts Australia in box seat
- Victoria's top chefs gather for invite-only Age Good Food Guide awards
- Markram's defiant half-century stalls Australia's charge on day five
- Ex-director criticised over Grenfell cost-cutting leaves new council housing role after backlash
- Russell Brand continues weekly podcast during rape trial, discussing 'eye of the storm'
- Canelo Alvarez vs Christian M'billi bout to proceed in Riyadh despite deadly airport attacks
- Prisons boss cites cabinet confidentiality over human rights law carve-out
- Burnham confirms Russia interfered in Brexit referendum, sparking fresh political battle
- Alice Springs prepares for more storms as 4,000 homes still without power
- NT food insecurity and power disconnections at 'unacceptable' levels, report finds
- Australia win first Test in Durban as Steve Smith cleared to field after concussion scare
- World Bank council urges permanent 'crisis-era' job support as IMF says AI will touch 40% of jobs
- NACC abandons Bruce Lehrmann submarine secrets investigation
- Myanmar Junta Chief Min Aung Hlaing to Visit Indonesia and Brunei
- Carlton to investigate hospitalisations of Cowan and Hayward, pass findings to AFL
- Surf Hotel in Torquay Earns 14.5/20 and Critics' Pick in Good Food Guide
- Glen Waverley's Danny's Kopitiam earns 14/20 in Good Food Guide review
- UK economists warn of £35bn funding gap ahead of Budget
- Iran offers to mediate as Riyadh airport stays shut after deadly Houthi strikes
- Burnham to urge MPs to embrace closer ties with EU
- Murdered backpacker's boyfriend files malicious prosecution claim against NSW Police
- WA chief justice urges caution over plan to ban character references
- "I want to punch him": Father of Thai teen confronts Australian murder accused in court
- Met chief vows to press on with diversity recruitment despite ‘toxicity’ of debate
- Australia criticises Palestinian Authority for delaying elections
- China freezes assets of Paraguay and Belize ministers over Taiwan ties
- Delhi police shut six metro stations as opposition marches on supreme court over voter list purge
- Saudi Minister Vows 'Serious Response' as FAA Warns Airlines Over Houthi Attacks
- Wallabies 'faced the music' after 12th straight Bledisloe loss, says Tom Wright
- ‘I am not saying I am a good spy’: Russian agent who betrayed Ukrainian troops tells his story
- Aberdeen fire that killed two sisters started by candles in flat below
- Man dies after speaking at South Wairarapa council meeting
- National Petrol Prices Surge Past $2.40 as Iran Conflict Disrupts Oil Routes
- Rescuers free worker from grain silo in central Victoria
- North Korea fires ballistic missiles after South Korea's first hypersonic test
- One Nation Victorian deputy defends AI-generated campaign video against racism claims
- Record crowd expected for World Cup opener as Kiwis aim to upset Kangaroos
- Almost 80,000 older Australians forecast to quit private health under rebate changes
- Riyadh airport stays closed as Saudi Arabia extends flight suspension after second deadly strike
- Robert Pether leaves Iraq, ending five-year detention ordeal
- Teenage girl dies after alleged assault in remote NT community; partner arrested
- NRL says it was blindsided by NZ Rugby injunction bid
- Russian strikes kill more than 150 as Trump claims Ukraine energy truce
- ‘Things have to change’: Frydenberg attacks Taylor’s leadership in 60 Minutes interview
- Man charged with murder after fatal Te Puke crash
- First state school in New Zealand converts to charter school
- Izzi Batt-Doyle breaks Australian women's marathon record with 2:20:38 in Chicago
- Izzi Batt-Doyle breaks Australian marathon record with 2:20:38 in Chicago
- Judge blocks Trump administration from airing DHS-funded ads ahead of midterms
- Pakistan suspends PTI-led provincial government, opposition decries 'coup disguised as emergency'
- Government warns platforms over planned US execution livestream
- Grandfather kills eight in Pennsylvania home before taking own life, say authorities
- WA launches 'Back to Basics' trial to cut classroom screen time for youngest students
- Probation failures leave 5,000 offenders unmonitored in England and Wales, report finds
Business41
- European Tour Ultimatum Forces Golfers to Choose Between LIV and Tradition
- Mechanical fault forces Dubai-bound Emirates flight back to Adelaide
- Six Flags confirms rider death on Goliath coaster; witness says restraint unlatched
- Epic Games pivots to ‘AI first’ development for Disney shooter, report says
- EssilorLuxottica Heir Discloses Drug Addiction, Escalates Feud With CEO After Stepping Down
- Fed’s Hammack warns higher rates may be needed to prevent ‘inflationary mindset’
- Australian businesses 'blindly' throwing billions in profits into landfill with food waste
- Fingerboards mineral sands project faces fresh scrutiny as critics label it 'a turd in glitter'
- Norway fines Microsoft ad firm $9.6 million over Grindr data sharing
- BBC abandons plans for new Archers studio in Birmingham as cuts bite
- Bridgeport Energy wins Channel Country oil tenders, pledges supply stays in Australia
- ASX set to jump as Wall Street steadies after global AI sell-off
- Hims & Hers retires weight-focused Juniper, launches women's health clinic in Australia
- Revealed: arson, murder plot and safety crisis behind $42m spray paint business sale
- IonQ to buy cybersecurity firm Elisity in all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion
- Honeyjar brings AI to PR and communications, launching at TechCrunch Disrupt
- LVMH Q3 misses forecasts as fashion and leather sales slide 5%
- Digger losses widen to $245m, cementing Tom Cruise film as one of Hollywood's biggest flops
- Ultrahuman partners with Abu Dhabi to bring biological-age model to UAE
- Starbucks denies Chipotle acquisition plans after days of takeover speculation
- GM builds battery cell development center to cut EV costs
- Amazon's million-strong robot fleet expands, raising questions for human warehouse workers
- The Brick Chef Wins Trailblazer Award at The Age Good Food Guide 2027
- Alpine Hotel in Warburton named Pub of the Year
- Qantas grounds Rome-Perth flight after bed bug outbreak, delays passengers up to two days
- Victor Churchill earns 15.5/20 in Good Food Guide review
- Sagye crowned Good Food Guide's Critics' Pick of the Year
- Rockpool Bar & Grill Receives 15/20 Score and Good Food Guide Hat
- Hidden fees on parking apps cost drivers up to 40% extra, Guardian finds
- UK van drivers face £2.5bn diesel cost rise as fuel duty increase looms
- UK business inflation pressures hit three-year high, IFS warns of £35bn budget shortfall
- Barragunda Dining named Regional Restaurant of the Year, Combat MSA wins Food for Good at Good Food Guide Awards
- UK set to cut heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
- BBC investigation: Deloitte helped falsify documents to hide Roman Abramovich's wealth
- Job losses loom at Groote Eylandt manganese mine as costs surge
- ABC union calls urgent meeting over discipline threat to senior journalist
- Adidas sues White Fox Boutique over four-stripe designs in Federal Court
- Critica declares maiden 160 million tonne indicated resource at Jupiter rare earths project
- Iran conflict threatens UK Budget plans, think tank warns
- Sacha Baron Cohen to Star in Quentin Tarantino's West End Play Debut
- IFS £35bn warning for Chancellor Healey dominates UK front pages
Tech38
- OpenCode 2.0 released: coding agent unifies terminal, desktop and web apps
- FSB warns $300 billion stablecoin market faces cross-border bank run risk
- No Man’s Sky coming to iPhone and iPad after 10-year redemption arc
- Half of US adults never use chatbots, Pew survey finds
- US Air Force signs nearly $50 million contract for WindBorne weather balloon data
- Intel Launches GPU D-Series AI Accelerator, Targets Efficient Inference with 1.3 PFLOPS
- Google paid $90,000 bounty for DevSite RCE bug, then took two months to patch
- Standard Chartered launches custody for Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin
- Anthropic cuts internet access to AI safety tests after models breach US government sites
- Proposed US accounting rules could make stablecoins cash equivalents, Tempo report says
- Meta unveils Muse Wonder, its first frontier AI models
- The Register to host HPE and Nvidia for Washington AI infrastructure dinner
- Microsoft closes Windows 11 setup loophole that let users skip account login
- AI Startup Blueprints AI Promises Permit-Ready Architectural Plans in Minutes
- French Supermarket Fridge Attack a 'Wake-up Call', Cyber Expert Warns, as Hack Spreads Across Europe
- XRP Ledger fixes decade-old counterfeiting bug in payment engine
- CMF Launches First Wireless Speakers with Distinctive Milk-Carton Design
- OnePlus 16 launches in China, first flagship since US and Europe exit
- AMD unveils Helion rack design packing up to 32,768 Zen 6 cores for agentic AI servers
- EU ministers agree to move oversight of major crypto firms to central watchdog
- GitLab urges immediate patching of maximum-severity code execution flaw
- AI Tool Lets Police Identify Homes From a Single Interior Photo
- AvisLoader: New Windows malware uses Tox network to resist takedowns
- GlobalFoundries returns to advanced nodes with 7nm-class FDX Fusion process for low-power chips
- Microsoft to shift AI workloads to homegrown Maia chips, easing reliance on Nvidia
- Ahold Delhaize takes systems offline after cybersecurity incident
- Global Financial Watchdog Urges Cross-Border Crisis Planning for Stablecoins
- UK AI minister warns cyber breach 'likely, if not inevitable' as government turns to AI for defence
- Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens all day
- French authorities investigate cyberattack that heated supermarket fridges to 50C
- South Korea's Jeonbuk Bank Launches First Bitcoin-Backed Loans
- SWI raises €800 million to convert former FTX-backed bitcoin miner into AI infrastructure
- UK confirms access to latest AI models as Microsoft president urges UK-led safety rules
- Capital, not chips, could become AI's biggest constraint, Intel and Broadcom CEOs warn
- Researchers detail Ledger wallet implants as traced losses reach $93M
- TikTok CEO expects AI to deliver major scientific breakthroughs within three years
- XRP Ledger defends emergency patch for bug that could mint unlimited XRP
- UK urges AI firms to step up safety as minister unveils cyber defence plans
Australia25
- Man surrenders over Carlton death of Jayda Allen Bonner
- Carnes Hill aquatic centre a step closer despite architecture firm collapse
- Nightingale co-founder says acclaimed housing model won't fix the crisis
- Roma named New Restaurant of the Year in Good Food Guide Victoria awards
- Cham Named T2 Tea Cafe of the Year in The Age Good Food Guide Awards
- Charles Duan named Sommelier of the Year at The Age Good Food Guide Awards
- Cote Basque's drinks list named Drinks List of the Year at The Age Good Food Guide Awards
- Yiaga named T2 Tea Restaurant of the Year in Victorian Good Food Guide awards
- Scorching heat for Sydney triggers total fire ban
- Botanical Hotel scores 14.5/20 in Good Food Guide review update
- Prahran restaurant Hopper Joint scores 14/20 in Good Food Guide review
- Mister Bianco holds 14.5/20 in updated Good Food Guide review
- North Fitzroy Arms earns Good Food Guide Critics' Pick with 13.5 out of 20
- Two more charged after fatal Mount Druitt stabbing
- Melbourne Islamic centre leader silent on alleged Flydubai hijacker links in Facebook video
- Carroll's popularity slides 9 points as Wilson gains ground in Victorian election race
- Spring Hill cafe owner draws online backlash over One Nation blackboard joke
- Man accused of grooming and raping teenage girl granted bail despite police opposition
- Inquest told child safety agencies found no harm after 2013 warning about sect that killed girl
- Former health minister's chief of staff joins cohealth months after state oversight talks
- Senior Queensland detective faces sacking but not charges over non-consensual sex claims
- Historic Queenslander in Gordon Park sells for $2.03m after 105 years
- 13-year-old on bail charged with murder of Sydney father after Mount Druitt stabbing
- Student shunned after reporting principal's nudity, Redeemer Baptist School inquiry told
- Total fire ban across greater Sydney as 37C heat and dry lightning threaten bushfires
Science4
- Cannabis-related hospitalisations in Victoria up 49% over a decade, study finds
- Hall and Woodford win Nobel economics prize for shaping how central banks steer economies
- Roman fort discovered in Wales could confirm medieval legend of emperor's camp
- International timekeepers vote to abolish leap second, change to take effect in 2027
AI research49
- Expert feedback for LLM agents should target decisions, not whole tasks
- A training recipe for looped language models that matches non-recurrent models at one loop and improves with more compute.
- Reward models for vision-language AI can be trained without human preference labels
- Kronecker product factorization compresses key-value caches up to 10x without accuracy loss.
- Agentic data synthesis improves by evolving the generation space based on learner feedback
- Self-judged trajectories improve SWE agent training beyond binary verifier rewards
- Recursive synthesis turns unsolved problems into useful reinforcement learning data
- CopRoute reduces inference calls by exploiting complementary failures among language models
- Uncertainty-weighted credit improves cross-tokenizer distillation for LLMs
- Memory-guided framework brings differential privacy to million-token LLM inference
- Contextual bandits select reusable LLM workflows with less training overhead
- Agents keep more options open by seeking states rich in skills
- LLM creativity is best measured by performance on rare, long-tail outputs
- Velocity corrections improve instruction following in few-step text-to-image generation
- Temporal structure improves long-term memory retrieval for multi-party LLM agents
- Optimal transport aligns pretrained modalities with only hundreds of paired anchors
- Adaptive curriculum training lets vision-language models solve hard visual Sudoku puzzles
- Source-aware rewards reduce fabricated evidence in trained search agents
- Trajectory process quality, not just outcome, improves coding-agent fine-tuning
- MRI foundation model aligns anatomy and abnormalities across 3D volumes
- Schedule-Free AdamW leads optimizer benchmark without workload-specific tuning
- Production RDMA needs software-layer management, not just hardware offload
- Evolving environment beliefs helps LLM agents adapt without retraining
- Grounding distillation in interaction states improves multi-turn agent performance
- Divergence geometry and estimation jointly improve language-model policy optimization
- Formal guardrails can evolve from feedback without surrendering deterministic enforcement
- Trajectory-aware updates stabilize reinforcement learning for longer LLM reasoning
- Backdoors can hide executable neural networks inside model weights
- Replaying cached inputs cuts state memory traffic in SSM decoding
- LLM agents discover hidden rules in social dilemmas but fail to sustain cooperation
- MLLMs miss text readable by squinting; diagnosis and training method recovers it
- Open-vocabulary speech recognition runs on a $5 microcontroller without a neural accelerator
- Framework scales verifiable training environments for coding agents that build programs from scratch
- Multi-agent pipeline with simulator feedback produces physically usable 3D assets
- Code review agents catch many bugs but still need humans
- Flexible early stopping offers the best theoretical reasoning trade-off
- Training spikes in language models replicated by simple quadratic models with heavy-tailed data
- Alternating AI agents across sessions beats single agents on machine learning tasks
- Branching student trajectories improves on-policy distillation efficiency and accuracy
- Coding agents rarely build the agent a user actually asked for.
- Post-training makes coding-agent trajectory verifiers substantially more accurate
- Building LLM memory at test time beats offline memory systems for long histories
- Two-rate precision allocation cuts MoE memory footprint and decode traffic
- Natural language can steer all-atom protein design across diverse objectives
- Intervening During Rollouts Helps Agents Learn Beyond Their Initial Limits
- Long skip connections help diffusion transformers learn cleaner visual representations
- A compact memory model captures behavior across 137 experiments
- Sparse rewards teach one robot policy all 20 NIST assemblies
- Phone scans can personalize robot pickup policies through simulation