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There’s something deeply exhausting about Pauline Hanson still being a thing. I was in high school when she first crawled out of her Ipswich fish and chip shop and onto the national political stage, and here we are, decades later, still talking about her. People I went to uni with have had entire careers, raised kids, and retired, and Pauline Hanson is still out there, microphone in hand, telling us she …

There’s been a good discussion floating around online lately about chicken drumsticks, and honestly, it hit home. With grocery prices still being what they are — and anyone who’s done a Coles or Woolies run recently knows exactly what I’m talking about — drumsticks have quietly become one of the best value proteins you can throw in your trolley. A 2kg bag for under ten bucks? In this economy, …

There’s a thread going around that caught my eye this week, and it’s one of those situations where the practical problem on the surface gives way to something much bigger underneath. Someone came home to find two unhoused men had sheltered in the small vestibule of their apartment overnight. The men left without incident, but the smell they left behind has been absolutely brutal — weeks of trying various …

There’s something uniquely Melbourne about spotting a funny number plate while crawling through traffic. Someone posted a photo to the Melbourne subreddit recently that had people absolutely losing it — a personalised plate spotted crossing the West Gate Bridge that was, let’s just say, anatomically suggestive. The comments section quickly turned into its own comedy show, and honestly, it made my …

There’s a story doing the rounds at the moment that has been sitting uncomfortably in my head all week. Researchers reviewing media reports in the US have identified at least 14 cases where police officers used automated licence plate reader (ALPR) systems to stalk romantic interests — current partners, exes, even strangers who happened to catch their eye. And the kicker? That number is almost certainly a …

There’s a story doing the rounds this week that I can’t stop thinking about, and it’s not really about the glasses. Well, it starts with the glasses — Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses recording people in bathrooms, in intimate moments, capturing banking details — all of it being piped through to AI trainers who were then fired when they had the audacity to speak up about it. Over a thousand …

So there’s a fresh Linux kernel vulnerability doing the rounds this week — dubbed CopyFail — and if you’re running any Linux-based systems at home or at work, it’s worth taking a few minutes to understand what’s actually going on before you either panic-patch everything or, worse, shrug and do nothing. I’ve been following the discussion online and it’s been… instructive, in …

April was a big month. Possibly too big. Between a critical RCE in Cursor, Anthropic shipping Opus 4.7 with three silent breaking changes, and the “ultra prefix” commercial model crystallising into something real, there’s a lot to unpack. I’m going to focus on the three things I can’t stop thinking about. The Cursor CVE Should Have Been Front-Page News Let’s start here, because …

So AMD apparently just dropped some news at their AI Dev Day about releasing their own in-house Ryzen AI 395 mini PC box, coming in June. And the tech corners of the internet are… cautiously underwhelmed? Which, honestly, is a pretty reasonable reaction when you dig into what it actually is. The short version: it’s a 395 with 128GB unified memory. Same as what you can already buy from a dozen different …

There’s a thread doing the rounds on Reddit at the moment where a digital marketer — four and a half years out of uni, working at a decent-sized company — asked a pretty simple question: how much are other marketers earning? They mentioned they’d previously been “roasted” for their $85k salary and wanted some honest benchmarks. What followed was exactly the kind of chaotic, occasionally …