All articles published by The Daily Perspective from 28 February to 29 March 2026.
An investigation into the Mitchell Library's bronze doors has uncovered troubling paternalism and inaccuracies in their 1942 creation. The doors now prompt uncomfortable conversations about institutional values.
Sarah Cheng 
A security engineer has successfully ported Linux to a PS5, transforming it into a Steam gaming machine. The feat raises pressing questions about hardware control and corporate restrictions on devices consumers own.
Jake Nguyen 
A 1997 Ukrainian shooter used clever tricks to run advanced graphics on underpowered machines, prefiguring later Eastern European innovation in gaming.
Tom Whitfield 
Indonesia will prohibit children under 16 from major social media platforms starting 28 March, following Australia's world-first ban implemented in December 2025.
Rachel Thornbury 
Sony is quietly testing dynamic pricing on the PlayStation Store, charging some players less and others more for the same games. The discovery raises questions about fairness, transparency, and what the gaming industry becomes when profit optimisation trumps consumer trust.
Jake Nguyen 
Within days of release, Slay the Spire 2 exceeded half a million concurrent players on Steam, shattering predictions and demonstrating the staying power of indie games built on genuine player engagement rather than marketing budgets.
Oliver Pemberton 
Queensland schools are grappling with the reality of climate disruption: closed campuses, relocated classrooms, and students dealing with trauma and uncertainty. The question is not whether schools can rebuild, but whether education policy is prepared for this to become routine.
Kate Morrison 
Heartopia removed a questline within 24 hours after players flagged a racist depiction of a Black character. The incident highlights ongoing representation challenges in indie game development.
Daniel Kovac 
Video game RPGs are thriving by embracing the mechanics, philosophy, and player agency that made tabletop games compelling for decades.
Tom Whitfield 
Roblox has launched an AI-powered feature that automatically rewrites profanity instead of replacing it with hash marks, an attempt to balance moderation with user experience on a platform facing mounting child safety lawsuits.
Tanya Birch 
Walmart has begun requiring Vizio TV customers to use Walmart accounts instead, offering limited options: merge accounts or delete. The move reflects Walmart's broader ambitions to control customer data.
Oliver Pemberton 
An abrupt restructuring at TheOdd1sOut has left animation team members without warning. The incident highlights the vulnerability of freelance workers in the creator economy.
Oliver Pemberton 
Sammy Azdoufal was only trying to play with his DJI Romo using a PS5 controller. Instead, he discovered a security flaw that exposed 7,000 homes across 24 countries to potential surveillance.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Australian para-skier Josh Hanlon crashed on the notorious Cortina downhill course on Saturday, weeks after Lindsey Vonn's serious injury on the same slope.
Oliver Pemberton 
After nearly a decade, Let It Die shuts its online servers this September. But the offline version offers a refreshing lesson: good games matter more than subscription fees.
Zara Mitchell 
At 90 years old, Bride of Frankenstein remains a masterclass in how artists navigate institutional constraint. The film's legacy speaks to a timeless tension between creative freedom and social oversight.
Oliver Pemberton 
Motorola's first book-style foldable, unveiled at MWC 2026, challenges Samsung's dominance with superior brightness, battery capacity, and camera performance at a lower price point.
Yuki Tamura 
Researchers at Curtin University have found that 3D-printed firearms can be linked to their filament sources through chemical analysis, potentially disrupting illicit gun supply chains.
Oliver Pemberton 
Oracle is planning significant job cuts and halting a major Texas datacenter expansion as the costs of its AI infrastructure ambitions mount. The company is confronting hard truths about the scale and financing of the tech industry's compute arms race.
Oliver Pemberton 
Ratcheteer DX lands on Switch and PC as a proof of concept: sometimes the best adventures come in compact packages. It's a reminder that game design excellence matters more than hours logged.
Oliver Pemberton 
Over 2.5 years of data disappeared when a developer entrusted an AI agent with unsupervised access to production infrastructure. The incident highlights a tension between innovation and basic risk management.
Oliver Pemberton 
The Sony WH-1000XM6 delivers excellent noise cancellation and sound quality, yet higher prices and incremental gains over the previous generation mean buyers should think carefully before upgrading.
Zara Mitchell 
The economics of AI inference are deceptively simple on the surface: generate tokens efficiently and sell them for profit. But scaling proves brutally complex, forcing companies to choose between serving users fast or serving them cheap.
Zara Mitchell 
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has openly embraced supply constraints as beneficial to the company, arguing that scarcity forces customers to choose the best product. The admission raises uncomfortable questions about market power in the AI boom.
Sophia Vargas 
After Electronic Arts shelved his Alice sequel plans, American McGee found unexpected redemption in a toy company. Now he is returning to game development on his own terms.
Daniel Kovac 
Iranian drone strikes have damaged three Amazon Web Services data centres in the UAE and Bahrain, marking the first known military attack on a major US tech company's physical infrastructure and forcing a rethink of digital security in conflict zones.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Researchers have uncovered hundreds of attempts by Iranian state-linked hackers to infiltrate surveillance cameras across the Middle East, revealing how affordable, insecure devices are becoming integral to modern warfare.
James Callahan 
Apple's M5 Max processor scored 29,233 in multi-core Geekbench tests, surpassing the 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX. However, industry experts caution that synthetic benchmarks do not fully reflect actual performance in professional applications.
Zara Mitchell 
Chevrolet's new hybrid Corvette ZR1X delivers hypercar performance at a fraction of European exotic costs, exposing a harsh truth about the EV sports car dream.
Sarah Cheng 
US Customs and Border Protection used online advertising data to track phone locations during a 2019-2021 pilot programme, according to internal documents obtained by journalists. The practice highlights a legal gap in US privacy law.
Sophia Vargas